My Genealogy Hound

G. W. Stacy, known throughout the county as an upright and thorough-going citizen, was thrown upon his own resources when very young. At the age of sixteen he took charge of his mother’s farm and bought out the other heirs interested in this farm. The old homestead consisted of 200 acres, located in this county, with forty-five cultivated. He sold this place a few years since, and bought the eighty acres of land on which he now lives, this lying near to the corporation of what is now Cherry Valley, yet was not surveyed at the time he purchased this tract. He has since sold thirty acres of this land for building purposes. Mr. Stacy engaged in the mercantile business in 1877, at this place, carrying a stock of general merchandise worth between $4,000 and $5,000 and built up a large trade, doing a business which averages about $20,000 per year. Mr. Stacy was born in this county in 1853, and was the son of Miles and Rebecca (Duke) Stacy, natives of Arkansas and Tennessee, respectively. The senior Stacy was a farmer and machinist by trade, living in this State until his thirteenth year, when he went to New Orleans, remaining there until twenty-seven years of age, when he returned to this State. He was married in Mississippi in 1834. In 1844 he came to Cross County, where he purchased some 400 acres of land. He held the office of county judge for five years, holding this up to the time of his death, which occurred April 18, 1853. He was the father of fourteen children, five of whom are living: Amelia, Louisa, C. M., R. M. and G. W. (our subject). Mrs. Stacy is still living in her seventy-third year, and resides with G. W. The latter was married in June, 1875, to Miss Eva (McCall) Beadle, a daughter of B. G. and Evaline (Wilson) Beadle, originally of Indiana and North Carolina, respectively. Mr. Beadle was a first-cousin of Abraham Lincoln, and served during the late conflict in the United States frigate, “Annie.” Mr. Beadle was engaged in the manufacture of cotton-gins, and died in 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Stacy are the parents of six children: C. M., Lena and Ester (who are away at school) and Miles, Henry and Glenn (at home). Mr. Stacy is a Democrat in politics, and has officiated as the postmaster of Cherry Valley for a number of years.