NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11374 BOURBON CO – JAMES W. STARK – Stark, Watt, Jump, Brown, Boggess, Carroll, Wilson, Schooler, Johns, Elgin 11374 Pike County <http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri/mb.ashx>Missouri History, Des Moines, <http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa/mb.ashx>Iowa, <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/mills-family-history.ashx>Mills and Company, 1883, p. 593-4 Bourbon Co. James W. Stark, son of James and Jane (Watt) Start, was born in Pike county, Missouri, seven miles west of Clarksville. His father and mother were both natives of Bourbon county Kentucky. They were married there May 5, 18915 and in 1816 they moved to Pike county, Missouri, and settled on the farm where our subject was born. They lived here until the death of Mr. Stark, which was in May, 1873. Mrs. Stark is still living and is in her eighty-sixth year. She lives with her daughter Susan, who is the wife of Isaac Jump, Esq., of Pike county. The children of this family were sixteen in number and all lived to be grown, and all but one married. The names were Henry, Thomas, John, Eliza, James W., Elizabeth, Mary, William, Sarah, Thornton, Susan, Washington, Margaret, Julia, Jane and Edward. Henry was drowned in Illinois opposite Clarksville in 1840; he was about twenty-five years old. He was out with a fishing party and was taken with cramps and drowned before assistance reached him. Thomas, John, and William died in Pike county; Thornton died at Eureka Spring, Arkansas, where he had gone for his health; Sarah died in California, Jane in Colorado; Washington and Margaret (now Mrs. James Brown), live in Pettis county, Missouri; Edward lives in Colorado; Eliza is the wife of Bosman Boggess of Audrain county. The rest all live in Pike county; Elizabeth is the widow of Lewellyn Carroll; Mary is the wife of Wm. Carroll; Susan is Mrs. Wilson. James W. Start was married December 15, 1842, to Miss Catharine B. Schooler. She was born in Kentucky and came to Pike county with her parents in 1828, when she was only five years old. They had had three children, Nancy Margaret, Sarah Elizabeth, and William Henry. Nancy M. is the wife of Capt. Abijah Johns of Clarksville. They have one child, Harry S. Sarah Elizabeth died January 19, 1880. William Henry is living on the farm where his father was born. He married Miss Margaret M. Elgin of Pike county. They have four children living, George N., William D., Beulah C., and Ira O., and two dead, Leona and James Francis. Mr. Start has been farming all his life until 1876, when he moved to Clarksville and he now devotes his time to managing his property in Clarksville and his farms in the country adjoining. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx