- Joseph B. Stout was born 1836 or 1840 in Michigan.
Minnesota land records show a land transaction on April 2, 1857 by Joseph B Stout in Brownsville, Minnesota. Brownsville is in Hamilton County but in the vicinity of Fillmore County. Brownsville is 8 miles south of LaCrosse, Wisconsin on the Mississippi River. Brownsville and Hamilton are about 50 miles apart.
Joseph and his first wife, Amanda, had a son, Nathan, born in Hamilton, Fillmore County, Minnesota on March 1, 1859. Hamilton still existed in 1973, but its mail came through Spring Valley, Minnesota.
Joseph Stout was in the Civil War. He joined July 3, 1861 in Vandalia, Illinois for a 3 year period. Military records say he was 19 years old. He was sworn in at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri on August 6 and mustered in at St. Louis Arsenal, Missouri August 28, 1861.He was in Co. B 35 Reg't of the Illinois infantry, but in July 1863 was detailed to 8 Independent Battery of the Wisc. Light Artillery by order of Brig. Gen. Davis, and served with them for most of the rest of the time, thought was still officially part of Illinois Infantry Co. B. Also, during that time period he was in a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee from December 27, 1863 to January 12, 1864. On May 1, 1864, he was promoted from private to corporal and on June 8 returned to Co. B. of Illinois Infantry and was mustered out September 27, 1864. The record at that time showed he had last been paid June 30, 1864 and $21.61 was due him. (Joseph's military file is in the National Arcvhives, Washington, D.C.) In later years, Nathan urged his father, Joseph to apply for a pension as a Civil War veteran. Joseph was reluctant to do so and apparently never did.
Not too long after Nathan was born, Joseph and Amanda moved to Union County, Illinois and lived in a small log house, 2 m,iles north west of Cobden. After Amanda's death, Joseph and Nathan moved across the road. See notes under Nathan's entry.
Joseph married Mary Braswell in 1869 in Jackson County, Illinois. Nathan was 10 years old. Mary had some children at the time. Three Braswell children are listed on the 1880 census. Gertrude Stout Phillips said they were still in Jackson County in 1873. After Nathan went west in 1881, Joseph stayed on in southern Illinois. The 1880 census has Joseph's family still in Illinois, in Irvington Precinct, Washington County, in June of that year. That census lists Joseph's occupation as a farmer and carpenter. Joseph and his family eventually went from Illinois to Marmaduke and Halliday, Arkansas.
Arthur Stout said Joseph and family were in Centralia, Illinois until 1884. They were in Arkansas in about 1903 when Nathan went there to visit them and urge Joseph to apply for a veteran's pension.
Nathan Stout's obituary in 1939 lists half-brothers and sisters: C.R.Stout of Marmaduke, Arkansas; Jared Stout of Raymond, Washington; Retta Kirby of Ferndale, Michigan; and Nora Stonecipher of Normandy, Oklahama.
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