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Joseph Cole Stalcup, of the firm of Garrett, Stalcup & Co., liverymen, was born in McMinn County, Tenn., February 20, 1851, and is a son of Moses and Nancy (Black) Stalcup. The father was a native of Virginia, and one of the first settlers of McMinn County, Tenn. He lived upon the farm he first cleared and located upon in that county for over a half a century, and there reared a family of eleven sons and two daughters. One son was killed during his youth, while on duty at Vicksburg, serving as lieutenant of Company F, Thirty-first Tennessee Infantry. Another died at the close of the war at Jeffersonville, Ind. Seven of his sons were soldiers in the Confederate army. The Stalcup family originally came from Massachusetts and settled in Virginia, where they became well-to-do planters. The family upon the side of our subject’s mother were influential people of Green County, Tenn., being early settlers of that place. Joseph C. lived in his native county until 1869, when he left home and spent three years in Southwestern Missouri and one year in Kansas. He then engaged in farming in Sebastian County near fort Smith, and in 1880 was chosen by his friends to fill the position of deputy circuit clerk, and took charge of the office at Fort Smith. In 1882 he was elected circuit clerk, to which he was successively elected until 1888. He then retired from public life, and went into the livery and transfer business with Mr. Garrett. He was united in marriage at Bolivar, Mo., to Miss Fannie A. Miller, a native of McMinn County, Tenn., and daughter of the Rev. John W. Miller, a minister in the Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Stalcup have buried two children in Hackett City Cemetery, named Frank and Lilly. Both himself and wife are members of the Baptist Church, in which the latter is an active worker. He is a Master Mason.