Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

JOHN W. STAMPS was born in the western part of Allen County, November 
21, 1841, in which vicinity he grew to manhood.  In 1863 he enlisted in 
Company C, Fifty-second Kentucky Mounted Infantry, and served until near 
the close of the war.  His father, Timothy Stamps, was born December 3, 
1821, in Allen County, near the waters of "Big Trammell" Creek.  He was 
a son of Charles Stamps, who was born about 1801, in Mississippi.  
Timothy Stamps was married about 1839, to Parnesia A., daughter of John 
Wade.  From their union sprang John W. and Matilda F. (Taylor).  Mrs. 
Parnesia A. Styamps departed this life June 1, 1881, John W. married, 
October 17, 1861, Fannie, daughter of Mark and Peggy (Douglas) Taylor, 
who was born April 18, 1843.  To them have been born Levi, Mitchel, 
Nola, Charley, Lillie, Adolphus, Fletcher and babe unnamed.  Mr. Stamps 
has, mainly by his own labor, procured a farm of 166 acres in good 
condition and a high state of cultivation.  He is a moral man, a Baptist 
in belief, though not a member of any church organization, and in 
politics is a Democrat.  His grandfather fought under Jackson at New 
Orleans.

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