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Surnames: BLOOMER, SHEPHERD, STALCUP, STRAUSER
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, April 28, 1938, Volume
LXII, Number 26, Page 7, Column 7, “Retired Farmer Dies at Lyons.” [Transcribed on
December 20, 2005 by RLJ from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the
Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library.]
L. E. “Ed” STALCUP, seventy-one, widely known retired farmer of Lyons, passed away at 2
o’clock last Thursday afternoon in his home in that community after an illness of one
year’s duration.
Mr. STALCUP, who was born June 23, 1866, in the Prairie Chapel neighborhood, east of
Lyons, was the son of Lycurgus and Grace STALCUP and was a member of one of Greene
County’s oldest pioneer family. During most of her life he lived in the Prairie Chapel
community, where he was engaged as a farmer.
Some fifteen years ago, however, he moved with his family to Lyons, and had made his home
there since that time. In Lyons he still managed his farm, and at the time of his death
had extensive land holdings in Washington Township. He was a member of the Lyons
Methodist Church and of the Lyons Masonic Lodge.
On December 6, 1905, Mr. STALCUP married {Mrs.} Arlie STRAUSER, and later he became the
father of two daughters, Grace, now deceased, and Helen.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Arlie STALCUP, the daughter, Helen, at home, and one
step-daughter, Mrs. O. D. BLOOMER. Also surviving are one brother, O. L. STALCUP, of
Shelbyville, and two grandchildren, Edgar Allen BLOOMER and Ardath Ann BLOOMER; a niece,
Grace STALCUP, of St. Louis, Missouri, and a cousin Steve STALCUP, of Linton. Two
brothers, John and Theodore, and one sister, Grace, preceded him in death.
Funeral services were held at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon in the Methodist Church in
Lyons, with the Rev. J. C. FEUTZ, Pastor, officiating, and interment was made in the
Prairie Chapel Cemetery east of Lyons. Burial services were in charge of the Lyons
Masonic lodge.