My Genealogy Hound

HALLECK H. STONEBARGER, one of the rising young farmers of Shelton township, Buffalo county, was born in Jasper county, Ill., April 23, 1863. His father, N. P. Stonebarger, was a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Thomas, was born in Ohio. The parents were married in the Buckeye state and shortly afterwards immigrated to Illinois, where his mother died in 1873, and his father came to Nebraska in 1874 and died in 1889. Both were zealous members of the Baptist church.

The boyhood days of young Stonebarger were spent in attending the common district school and working on his father’s farm until he was fifteen years old. After that period he had little opportunity for attending school.

Mr. Stonebarger came to Buffalo county, Nebr., in 1880, and bought a farm in Shelton township and has been successfully engaged in cultivating it ever since. He was married May 29, 1887, the lady of his choice being Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Buck, a native of old England and one of the pioneers of this county. Mr. Buck bid farewell to John Bull in 1869 and sailed for the United States. He came almost direct to Buffalo county, Nebr., and was here in plenty of time to say farewell to the Indians as they made way for advancing civilization. Mr. Buck was here in advance of any actual settler, and, indeed, the county presented a wild and desolate appearance. Plenty of wild game abounded everywhere; buffalo, elk, deer and antelope grazed in great herds on the broad prairie, almost within gun shot of the homesteader.

Mr. Buck obtained a position with the Union Pacific Railroad Company and earned means with which he secured passage for his family the following year. He organized the first Sunday-school and was elected the first coroner of Buffalo county. He is now a well-to-do farmer in Shelton township.

Mr. and Mrs. Stonebarger have had two children, viz. — Ethel (deceased) and Russell. He has one hundred and twenty acres of improved land, which produces excellent crops, and nearly all of which is under a good state of cultivation. He is a member of the Alliance, and while he has always adhered to the principles of the republican party, he is becoming more and more inclined to vote independently in the future. He is an industrious young man and is on the road to success.