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David L. Fullerton & Elizabeth Stokes
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DAVID L. FULLERTON farmer, P. O. Miller's Station, was born in what is now Cambridgeboro, this county, April 2, 1820, son of Bailey and Mary (Humes) Fullerton, and grandson of Thomas Fullerton, who settled in that township in 1797. The father of our subject was married in 1803, and the same year located where Cambridgeboro now stands, and here he resided until his death. He died February 25, 1854, at the age of seventy-four. He was parent of ten children: James, deceased; Bailey K.; Lettie, deceased; John H., deceased; Andrew J.; Polly, deceased; David L.; Joshua, deceased; Samuel, deceased; and Elizabeth. Our subject was married March 18, 1847, to Elizabeth Stokes, of Venango Township, this county. By this union were twelve children: Sarepta, wife of George France; Oscar, now in Iowa; Samuel; Harriet, wife of Alfred Shelhamer; Peirce, in Iowa; Mary, wife of John Peters; Wheeler, deceased; Edie, deceased; Loren K., in Iowa; Jennie, wife of Almer Parker; Kerney and Kate. Mrs. D. L. Fullerton was a daughter of John and Margaret (Peters) Stokes, who settled in Venango Township, this county, in 1804, coming from Union County, Penn. John Stokes, a son of George Stokes, had twelve children: George, Jacob, deceased; John; Polly, deceased; Katherine, deceased; Margaret, Samuel, Susan, William, Catherine E., David H. and Augustus W. (deceased). Mr. Stokes died June 10, 1861, aged eighty-one years; his widow died January 27, 1876, in her ninety-sixth year. Our subject has resided in this township since his marriage, with the exception of one year that he lived in Cambridge. He has held various offices in his township. In politics is a Democrat. Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. A Genealogical Tour of Crawford County,
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