There are five STADGE persons buied in Brian Cemetery. Frank Stadge, Henry Stadge and 3 other Stadge, first names unknown. Probably: Johann "Henry" Stadge, Catherine (Bohnstedt) Stadge, their son Henry Stade and Frank Stadge

Son of Johannes Conrad Stadge.

Henry married 1 Sept 1850, Muskingum Co. Ohio, Catherine Elizabeth Bohnstedt, born 10 Jul 1831, Germany, daughter of Johann Carl Christian "Charles" and Anna Dorothea "Dorothy Ann" (Fritze) Bohnstedt who are buried in Haven Hill Cemetery. Elizabeth died 21 Jan 1873, Richland County, Illinois.

Children of Henry and Elizabeth (Bohnstedt) Stadge:

Mary Elizabeth Stadge, (1851 – 1926) married Philip Geines.

Henry Stadge, born ca 1853, Ohio.

Caroline Stadge, (1854 – 1937) married Henry Yelch

Sophia Stadge, (1856 – 1903) married William Wesley Leathers.

Minnie C. Stadge, (1858 – 1930) married William D. Knight.

Daniel Edward "Ed" Stadge, (1861 – 1950) married Ida E. Carr.

Mary Stadge, born Sept 1863, married Frank L. Hull

Charles E. Stadge, (1866 – 1909) married Mary Elizabeth Tucker.

Frank Stadge, born ca 1871.



Henry married 2nd, Mary (Knust) Fields, widow of Edmund Fields.

Biography:
HENRY STADGE is one of the enterprising and substantial farmers of Richland County. He now resides on section 26, Claremont Township, where he owns and operates a good farm, comprising one hundred and twenty-five acres of arable land. He came to this county in 1860, and in 1866 located near his present home, and five years later upon the place where he has since lived. The greater part of his laud is now under a high state of cultivation, and it is supplied with good improvements, such as are found upon a model farm of the nineteenth century. The buildings and everything upon the place stand as monuments to his thrift and industry, for when he came into possession of the same it was unimproved land.

Mr. Stadge is of German birth. He was born in Prussia, November 29, 1826, and is a son of Conrad Stadge, a native of the same country, who in 1853 emigrated with his family to America, locating in Ohio, from where he afterward came to Illinois. In the Fatherland our subject spent the days of his boyhood and youth and acquired a good education in his native tongue, but in the English language he is wholly self-educated. When a young man of twenty-two years he determined to seek a home across the water, and in 1848, bidding good-bye to friends and family, he took passage on a sailing-vessel at Rotterdam, which, after a voyage of forty-three days, during which time they experienced some hard storms, dropped anchor in the harbor of New York on the 12th of May. Mr. Stadge at once made his way to Muskingum County, Ohio, where he secured work as a farm hand, being thus employed for five years. He then joined his parents who had emigrated to this country, and in 1854 accompanied the family to Clark County, Ill., where he rented land and engaged in farming for six years. On the expiration of that period he came to Richland County, as before stated, landing in Olney. He then operated a rented farm for six years, and later bought a tract of eighty acres, but slightly improved.

In 1851, in Muskingum County, Ohio, Mr. Stadge married Elizabeth Bonestead, a native of Germany, who went to the Buckeye State when a young lady of seventeen years. Her death occurred January 21, 1873. By that union were born eleven children, and with two exceptions all grew to mature years, were married and have become heads of families, with the exception of Frank. Mr. Stadge was again married, December 16, 1873, his second marriage being with Mrs. Mary Fields, a widow. By her former union she had two daughters, who are now married. Five children have been born of the present marriage: Simon, who is studying engineering and aids in operating the home farm; Clara L.; Amelia A.; Effie, who died in infancy; and Lillie May.