"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY
GREGG TOWNSHIP
PAGE 349

WALTER C. STOUT was born in Randolph County, N. C., October 11, 1828,
and is the second son of Allen and Sarah (Brewer) Stout, who moved to this
State in 1831, and settled in Monroe Township, where they resided five years;  
then removed to Hendricks County, and entered 320 acres.  There Mr. Stout
died in 1841, aged forty-six years, and Mrs. Stout died at Monrovia in 1852, 
aged fifty-two years.  Walter C. Stout passed his boyhood on the home farm,
and in school going.  In 1844, he began learning brick-masonry, at which he worked
fourteen years.  May 16, 1848, he married Candace Williams, a union productive
of eight children--Elvina E., Howard, John Wesley, Crittenden C., Mary, Byron,
Thomas and Ira.  The mother of these children died December 8, 1864, when 
about thirty-eight yeras old, a member of the M. E. Church.  February 17, 1868, 
he married Mrs. Dartula Wolf;  this marriage gave being to four children--Joseph,
Cordelia, Leotis and Ollie (deceased).  In 1844, Mr. Stout began studying law,
which he afterward gave up and went to farming.  In 1852, he was engaged in
mercantile business at Hall.  In 1856-58, he was Deputy Sheriff of this county
under Dick Williams.  In 1867, he resumed his legal studies, and is at present
Deputy Prosecutor of this township.  In 1870, he located in this township, 
since when he has lived at Wilbur.  He is a prominent stump speaker, and a 
radical Republican.

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