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Rev. John Calvin Stockburger was born in Stokes County, N.C., January 26, 1829, and is a son of Jacob and Nancy (Davis) Stockburger, and grandson of John Stockburger, who was born in Germany, and came to America with his parents about 1871, locating in North Carolina, where he became an extensive planter and large slave owner. He died at the age of about fifty-four years. His wife was also born in Germany, and lived to be about one hundred years old. Jacob Stockburger was born in Stokes County, N. C., in 1804, and in 1824 was married, and located on a farm of his own, eventually becoming the owner of a number of slaves. In 1840 he moved to Georgia with his family, locating on a plantation in Murray County, where he died in 1861. His wife is of English parentage, a native of North Carolina, and is now residing on the old home farm with two of her children. John C. Stockburger is one of seven surviving members of a family of ten children. In 1849 he was married to Martha A. Reed, who is of German-Irish descent and by her became the father of twelve children, ten of whom are now living: Marcus A., Nancy E. (wife of J. E. Stockburger), Jacob W., John R., Anna, Joseph, Mary E., Edward E., Emma, Calvin C.; Willie and an infant are deceased. In 1852 Mr. Stockburger came to Washington County, Ark., and moved to where he now lives, having bought 410 acres of land, 200 acres of which are under cultivation, and he is considered one of the successful farmers of the county. Having made the study of medicine a profession, he engaged in practicing after coming to Washington County, and has since been one of the successful practitioners of the county. At the age of eighteen years he embraced Chrisitianity, and a few years after was ordained an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He was one of four charter members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church that was organized in the southern part of the county, and has had practical charge of the same up to the present time, himself, wife and Mrs. Mariah Reed Brown being the only charter members now living.