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marriage. Harry and Alice were children of the previous marriage ofEliza M. Keller, born April 1827, in Pennsylvania, to Henry Stallman on 19 June 1850, in Allegany Co., Maryland. Henry Stallman had moved to Illinois where he died ca. 1857.
In the late 1860's James moved his family to Chicago where lie had business interests. The census of 1870 lists James and his family as living in South Chicago with the family consisting of his wife Eliza and stepchildren Harry and Alice Stallman, and children Julius Alsop, Anna Alsop, Sherman Alsop, and Hattie Alsop. James died in Chicago in the early part of 1880, as he was missing from his household when the census was taken in the middle of the year. James' tombstone can be found in the Oak Wood Cemetery in the family burial site, but only the years of his birth and dearh are given. Eliza Alsop was listed as a widow and the head other household in the 1880 enumeration with her occupation given as keeping boarders. Eliza died in Chicago on 7 April 1908, age 81, and was buried in the family plot. There are a number of the members of James immediate family buried in the same area. Anna Grant Bowden Alsop, one of the daughters of James and Eliza Stallman Alsop, married on 22 Jan. 1890, in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, Elmer Ellsworth Tansey. Her sister Harriet "Hattie" S. Alsop, b. Feb. 1869, married 14 Feb. 1907, in Lake County, Indiana, Eugene S. Campbell.
Sherman Ulysses S. Grant Alsop son of James and Eliza Stallman Alsop was, according to family records, born 16 April 1868. He married in Chicago on 29 Nov. 1893, Mary "Mae" Elizabeth dark, born March 1871, in Illinois, and then moved to Michigan in connection with his occupation as a locomotive engineer for the Santa Fe Railroad. Their only child, a son Philip Clark, was born 9 November 1902, in New Mexico. By 1910, Mary, who liked to travel and had free railroad transportation, and her son Clark were living in Los Angeles, California, but Sherman was rooming in the home of Edward and Emely Jones at Raton, New Mexico as necessitated by his employment. However, in 1920, Sherman, wife Mary and son Clark were all reported in the Federal census as residing at 314 Pine St., Los Animas County, Trinidad, Colorado. This location was only a few miles north of Raton. When the 1930 census was enumerated,
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Sherman and his wife and only son were back living in Raton, Colfax Co., New Mexico, dark was listed as age 26, and still single.
Sherman U. Alsop spent his working life operating a steam locomotive which consisted of thirty-four years with the Santa Fe Railroad. He was active in the Masons most of his life. His obituary in the "Topeka Daily Capital Newspaper" indicated that he retired on a pension and was a patient at the Santa Fe Hospital in Topeka when he died on Monday, 13 April 1936, at the age of 68. Sherman's body was taken ro Chicago for burial in the family plot at Oak Wood Cemetery located at 1065 E. 67th Street. This historic old cemetery is located near the Chicago suburb of Calumet City. Marv, wife of Sherman, was the daughter of a mother and a father who were both born in the Irish Free State. She died in 1953, and was buried in Denver, Colorado.
Philip Clark Alsop son of Sherman and Eliza Alsop was living with his parents when the 1930 census for Colfax Co., New Mexico was completed, and he gave his occupation as a stenographer for the U. S. Freight Co. Clark became interested in the field of foreign service, and pursued and earned a degree at Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. which prepared him for this type of profession. However, he married Claudia Marie Ford in 1935, and ended up living in Denver, Colorado where he worked the rest of his life for the Colorado State Department as an unemployment compensation specialist. He and Claudia were the parents of Sherman Ford, b. 9 Nov. 1939; Daniel Philip, b. 22 May 1941; John and James (twins), b. 9 September 1948; and BeverlyAnn, b. 26 December 1949. In 1986, Clark Alsop was residing in Arvada, Colorado which is in the north west edge of Denver. He died 20 January 1987, and was buried on the 26th at Ft. Logan National Cemetery in Denver.
John Alsop lived in DeWitt Co., Illinois near Clinton after arriving in the U. S. from Glossop, Derbyshire, England. Following the death of his first wife Marv, John Alsop married on 6 October 1861, Mrs. Hannah Wilkinson as recorded in Book "B", page 290, DeWitt Co., Illinois.
John's only son Levi Alsop left DeWitt Co., Illinois with his wife Mary Barber (marriage license gives her maiden name as Barger) and six children born in Illinois and relocated to Bourbon Co., Kansas. Only a year or two
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