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STARLING FAMILY
WILLIAM "BILL" STARLING
U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865

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NameWilliam B Starling

ResidenceCamp Lee, Florida

Enlistment Date11 Apr 1862

Rank at enlistmentPrivate

Enlistment PlaceCamp Lee, Florida

State ServedFlorida

Survived the War?No

Service RecordEnlisted in Company F, Florida 7th Infantry Regiment on 11 Apr 1862.Mustered out on 05 Jan 1863 at Loudon, TN.

SourcesSoldiers of Florida in the ...Civil War...Biographical Rosters of Florida's Soldiers 1861-1865

1860 United States Federal Census

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Name:William Starling

Age:26

Birth Year:abt 1834

Gender:Male

Birth Place:Georgia

Home in 1860:Volusia, Florida

Post Office:Volusia

Family Number:116

Value of real estate:View image

Household Members:

NameAge

William Starling26

Robin B Starling7

Angelina Starling4

Marriage License of William Starling and Annie Elizabeth Cartain 1858
LINE OF DESCENT
WILLIAM "BILL" STARLING
+ANNIE ELIZABETH CARTAIN
+LUCINDA "CINDY" HARPER
          ROLAND RUFUS STARLING
          +MARTHA ELIZABETH PURDOM
                    M J STARLING     DIED YOUNG
                    IDA ELIZABETH STARLING
                   +JOHN LEONARD ODUM
                             MILDRED L ODUM
                             +WADE HAMPTON REED
                                       CALVIN "CAB" STARLING REED
                                       +RUTH MARIE GILBERT
                                                 MILDRED MARIE REED
                                        GERALD HAMPTON REED
                                        +MARION LUCILLE TRAINOR   
                             CLARENCE RICHARDSON ODUM
                             +HELEN M CROSBY
                                       RICHARDSON A ODUM 
                             +HARRIETT E __________
                             HERALD LEONARD ODUM
                             +CORA D RAYMOND
                                       JACQUELINE JUANITA ODUM
                                       +FRANCIS EDWARD MATOTT
                             +MARTHA PEGGY OGERETTA CARMEN
                             LOIS EDNA ODUM
                             +JOHN GRAHAM GUNDER SR
                                       JOHN GRAHAM GUNDER JR 
                                       HAROLD ROBERT GUNDER
                                       +BETTY J TRAMMELL
                             ELIZABETH "BESSIE" FRANCES ODUM
                             +PARLEY NELSON EVERETT
                             +HAROLD ALBERT LUNN
                             JOSEPHINE A ODUM
                             +JAMES L DIXON 
                                        PATRICIA ANN DIXON
                                        JAMES DIXON
                                        WADE DIXON
                    ROSE ELLA STARLING
                    +HOMER ADOLPHUS BENNETT
                              RAYMOND LEE BENNETT
                              +GRACE DOROTHY GOULD
                              JAMES MELVIN "MEB" BENNETT
                              +HAZEL G __________
                               KENNETH L BENNETT
                               +LOIS HAZEL GRIFFING
                    B A STARLING     DIED YOUNG
                    WILLIAM JOSEPH STARLING
                    +INEZ LOUISE CONRAD  
                    IRA CHRISTOPHER STARLING
                    +DELLA JONES
                              IRA CARROLL STARLING
                              +GRACE CALHOUN TUCKER
                               MARTHA CAROLYN STARLING
                               +WILLIAM "BILL" EVERETT RUSSELL SR
                                         WILLIAM EVERETT RUSEELL JR
                                         +PEGGY__________
                                                  PAUL RUSSELL
                                                  CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL
                                                  KAREN RUSSELL
                                                  KIMBERLY RUSSELL
                               CALVIN D STARLING
                               +WANDA MAUDE CONNOR
                               ELLA MARY STARLING
                               +RAYMOND STOKES HERRING
                                           RAYMOND CARROLL HERRING                                                                +LILY SONJA PARKER  
                              BESSIE FRANCES STARLING
                              +DAVID EDWIN LIEBMANN
                              MARGARET EDNA STARLING
                              +RUSSELL GRADY CHESTER
                                        NORMA MARIE CHESTER
                                        +CHARLES GRADY SHIPMAN
                                        JOHN DAVID CHESTER     DIED YOUNG
                                        DONALD WAYNE CHESTER
                              JOY STARLING      DIED YOUNG 
           ANGELINE LUCINDA STARLING
          +WILLIAM HENRY POWELL
                     WILLIAM HENRY POWELL
                     +ELIZABETH WALKLATE 
                     CARRIE POWELL
                     LUCINDA ELIZABETH "LIZZIE" POWELL
                     +WILLIAM OSCAR BAKER
                               WILLIAM GEORGE BAKER
                               +ISABELLA __________
                                         GRACE NAOMI BAKER
                                         +QUILLIAN SANCHEZ YANCEY
                                         +THOMAS LEITCH HARLEY 
                               +ESTELLE ROBERTS
                               MATTIE LAURA BAKER 
                               +JAMES EVERETT WINN    
                                         WILLIAM EVERETT WINN
                                         +LORENE GENTRY SHORT  
                                         JAMES T WINN
                                         +______________
                                                   LORI DENISE WINN
                                                  +ROBIN ROCKY ROBERTS
                                                  CINDY JANINE WINN
                                                  +CHARLES MICHAEL VOLA 
                     ROSELLA POWELL
                     +FRANCIS BRANDON "FRANK" CARLISLE
                               JESSIE CARLISLE
                               +JAMES EDNO BRADDOCK
                                        JAMES OLAN BRADDOCK
                                        +VIRGINIA MUSGROVE
                                        JESSIE MAE BRADDOCK
                                        +JOHN ANDREW CURRY JR
                                        HENRY WALLACE BRADDOCK
                                        LEON BRADDOCK
                                        NORMAN L BRADDOCK
                               HORACE FRANKLIN CARLISLE
                               +RUBY MAE COWART
                                         HAROLD L CARLISLE
                               BESSIE CARLISLE
                              +FREDERICK JAMES PETTY
                                        ALICE LOUISE PETTY
                                        +EDWARD EVERETT BABBIT JR
                               +CARL L CLIFTON
                                         CARL RICHARD CLIFTON
                                         +TANYA LEE BLACKWELDER 
                               BERTHA CARLISLE
                               ROBERT LEER CARLISLE SR
                               +ULRICA CLAUDIA BLACK
                                        MARTHA FLORENCE CARLISLE
                                        +JAMES OTIS MAYRES
                                        ROBERT LEE CARLISLE JR
                                        +________________
                                                  GINA MARIE CARLISLE
                                                  +DOMENICA ARTHUR SACK
                                                  LISA CARLISLE
                                                  +_____ SCHWARTZ
                               BERNICE ELIZABETH CARLISLE
                               +OSCAR FREEMAN GREENLUND SR
                                         OSCAR FREEMAN GREENLUND JR
                                         +OLIVE ELIZABETH SMITH
                                                   LISA MARIE GREENLUND
                                                   +MICHAEL THOMAS KOLEHMAINEN
                                                   +DAVID MICHAEL LANE
                                                   ROBERT FREEMAN GREENLUND
                                                   +DONNA LYNN HANSON
                                                   +KELLEY RENEA STOREY
                                                   KATHRYN ANN GREENLUND
                                                   +HENRY LAMAR DIXON
                                                             BRIAN DIXON
                                                             GREGORY DIXON 
                                         LOIS JUNE GREENLUND 
                                         +JAMES OLIVER "JIMMY" TAYLOR
                                                   JAMES TERRENCE "TERRY" TAYLOR
                                                   TINA MARIE TAYLOR
                                                   +DARRYL LEE WADE 
                                                   TIM TAYLOR 
                                                   THOMAS TAYLOR
                                WILLIAM FLOYD CARLISLE SR
                                +SYTHIA ANGIE HARPER
                                          WILLIAM FLOYD CARLISLE JR  
                                PEARL CARLISLE
                                +WILLIE H TURNER
                                          BARBARA JEAN TURNER
                                          +HERBERT BENNETT
                                          LAURENCE HERBERT TURNER 
                                          +MELLIE JO PEACOCK
                                                    LANCE TURNER
                                                    BRANDON LAURENCE TURNER
                                                    +STACY LYNN MADIGAN
                                  BUELAH CARLISLE      DIED YOUNG  
                                  HENRY ELLIS CARLISLE
                                  +MYRTLE ANN BRADDOCK
                                  LEROY K CARLISLE
                                  +BETTY JEAN ERGLE
                                  ROBERTA CARLISLE
                                 +JOSEPH LEON PITTM,AN
                                           GLEN A PITTMAN     
                     ARCHIE POWELL
                    +EMMA DICKIY
                              DAISY POWELL 
                              BERTHA POWELL
                              +ALDINE DEVAUGHAN ROBINSON   
                                        CLAUDE DEVAUGHAN ROBINSON
                                        DRUSILLA ROBINSON
                                        LEWIS ROBINSON
                                        CHARLES MILTON ROBINSON
                     ISAAC POWELL
                    +AGNES EVERETTA SHATTUCK
                              CLARA ALMA POWELL     DIED YOUNG
                              MAYNARD ISAAC POWELL 
                              INFANT POWELL     DIED YOUNG
                              WILLETTA G POWELL
                             +DELMAR LONNIE OLIVER  
                             JOHN WINSTON POWELL      DIED YOUNG
                             IONA VERDA POWELL
                            +EVERETT SWINGLE JR 
          ARRISON "ARRIE STARLING 
ROSE ELLA STARLING
Rose Ella Starling Bennett

1923, Seabreeze, Florida, Photo of Della Jones Starling, holding Bessie Frances Starling Liebmann, Rose Ella Starling Bennett with Ella Mary Starling Herring at Rose Ell Bennett's home.

1934, Miami, Floirda, Photo of Ira Christopher Starling, Rose Ella Starling 

Jackson Memorial Hospital TB ward

1920's

Miami, Florida

1920's, Miami, Florida, Photo of the tuberculosis ward at Jackson Memorial Hosital.

When the family would come to visit Ira Christopher Starling at Jackson Memorial Hospital they would have to visit through the windows because they weren't allowed inside because they could catch the TB from the patients. Martha "Martie" Carolyn Starling Russell and Robert "Bobby" Alan Russell rode the bus to see Ira Christopher Starling at the hospital because they did not have a car during the war.

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Ira Christopher Starling died at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, from TB, at the age of 60, on April 21, 1945 at 1:25 A.M. Ira Christopher Starling had been at Jackson Memorial Hospital for 4 months. His wife, Della Jones Starling, was 47 at the time of his death. Bess Funeral Home handled the services. The funeral charges were $70.00. (Linda Crompton has a copy of the funeral home's bill). There was a service for Ira Christopher Starling in Miami, Florida and one in Holly Hill, Florida on April 23 at 3:00 P.M., with Rev. McGarvey.

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Ira Christopher Starling is buried at Shady Rest Cemetery, in Holly Hill, Florida, in space 4, lot 153. Baggett Summer Funeral Home held the services. The informant at the time of death was Kenneth B. Bess of 1326 North West 7 Avenue, Miami, Florida. Ira's death certificate is #7244, Volume 1143. Linda Crompton has a copy of the death certificate for Ira Christopher Starling.

Ira Christopher Starling's Illness

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In Ira Christopher Starling's letters around the end of 1944 he stated he was in St. Augustine. Ira had TB and was in the hospital there because that is where the FEC Railroad sent him for treatment. He stayed there for awhile under the care of Dr. Walk. While Ira Christopher Starling was there they discovered he also had asthma.  

 

Ira Christopher Starling said in his letters that he had the best nurses in the world, they were very good to him, the food was good, and he did not want for anything. Ira Christopher Starling had to stay in bed all the time, which he did not like. He was only allowed to go to the toilet which was only about 10 steps.

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Ira Christopher Starling came back to Miami after being in the hospital inSt. Augustine around December 1944. He went into Jackson Memorial Hospital. Jackson Memorial Hospital had the patient's that had TB in separate wooden building on the grounds of the hospital. There was no air conditioning in these buildings, but there were large screened windows.  

 

Calvin Starling

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Birth: May 28, 1918

Death: Oct. 7, 1973


1930 United States Federal Census
about Calvin Starling
Name: Calvin Starling
Home in 1930: Graham, Bradford, Florida
View Map
Age: 12
Estimated birth year: abt 1918
Relation to Head of House: Son
Parent's Name: Kate Starling
Race: White
Occupation:
Education:
Military service:
Rent/home value:
Age at first marriage:
Parents' birthplace:
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: 
Name Age
Kate Starling 42
Roy Starling 18
Claude Starling 15
Calvin Starling 12
Levis Starling 10
Onie M Starling 6
Earl Starling 4
 

Burial:
Antioch Baptist Cemetery 
La Crosse
Alachua County
Florida, USA

 
Created by: Paulette Johnston Botten
Record added: Jun 02, 2010 
Find A Grave Memorial# 53157449

IRA CARROLL STARLING

Ira Carroll Starling

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Birth: Nov. 5, 1916
Florida, USA

Death: May 10, 1975
Osceola County
Florida, USA

 
Family links: 
 Parents:
  Ira Christopher Starling (1884 - 1945)
 
 Spouse:
  Grace Calhoun Tucker Starling (1916 - 2016)*
 
*Calculated relationship

 

Burial:
Osceola Memory Gardens 
Kissimmee
Osceola County
Florida, USA
Plot: Christus Garden Lot 146 Plot c3

 
Created by: Suzanne Starling
Record added: Aug 19, 2012 
Find A Grave Memorial# 95597684

January 1974, Florida, The Ira Carroll Starling Sr. home.

Grace Calhoun "Sug" Tucker Starling

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Birth: Mar. 12, 1916
Georgetown
Putnam County
Florida, USA

Death: Mar. 14, 2016
Ocala - Grace Calhoun Tucker Starling, whom everyone lovingly called 'Sug', entered the Church Triumphant after a brief illness. Sug was born in Georgetown in Putnam County, Florida, the third of seven children. Her parents, John Calhoun Tucker and Lula Mae Long Tucker, came from entirely different worlds and Sug became equally at home in both. Roots on the Tucker side went back to South Carolina and the settled antebellum planter class. From those roots came a unique relationship to her dignified Confederate veteran grandfather that, at an early age, gave Sug a sense

March 19, 1939

Miami, Florida

March 19, 1939, Miami, Florida, Wedding Day, Ira Carroll Starling Sr. & Grace Calhoun Tucker Starling.

of history. On her mother's side, The Longs were yeomen farmers who migrated from North Carolina to farm land that is now within the Ocala National Forest. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings later immortalized Sug's grandfather, Calvin Long, as the boy Jodie in her classic 1939 novel of Florida frontier life, The Yearling.


Sug's parents moved to Miami when she was in her infancy. Her memories of her father, who died of a lingering illness when she was eleven, are tender and happy. From her widowed mother she, along with her sisters, learned the work ethic and self-reliance that stayed with her all her life.


She graduated from Miami Edison High School as one of only two in the family to do so. Before it was fashionable for women, she joined the workforce so to help provide for her younger siblings. Family life and the strong influence of the local Methodist Church shaped her strong convictions and were the determining influences of her life.


In 1939, she married Ira Carroll Starling whose career in finance took him to West Palm Beach, where Carroll Jr. was born and then to Orlando, where she gave birth to Bruce, Susan and Alan. Sug got a taste of the military when her husband entered the Navy in 1944. In 1945, the family relocated to join him in Norfolk, Virginia. This was the only time she resided outside Florida.


After the war Carroll went into the automobile business working, first as a general manager in Ocala, then in his own successful dealership in Kissimmee. When, in 1975, after 15 years of operating a successful automobile dealership in Kissimmee, her husband died suddenly, she became the corporation's vice president, a role she held for the rest of her life. Today, three of her grandsons currently operate Chevrolet dealerships in central Florida.


Over the years she was an active reader of history and an eager traveler, journeying to the Virgin Islands, Europe and the British Isles, Virginia, Hawai'i, New England, and California. She especially enjoyed family gatherings and never missed an opportunity to share in the milestone events of each new generation. Her oldest grandson recently described her as the model example of the 'greatest generation.'
As the matriarch of an extended family, she leaves to cherish her memory her four children and their spouses, ten grandchildren and their spouses, nineteen great-grandchildren, and numerous in-laws by marriage on three continents and in five nations.


Sug will be remembered for her energy and enthusiasm, her gratitude for every little kindness, her ability, in all situations, to see the silver lining, and her love for her children, their spouses, their children and their children's children.


In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully requests that donations be made in Sug's name to a charity of choice or to Vitas Hospice, 2201 Lucien Way, Suite 100, Maitland, FL 32751. A Memorial Service will be held for Grace Starling at 11 am, Friday, March 18th at the Osceola Memory Gardens Funeral Home, Kissimmee with a reception to follow in the funeral Home. Arrangements under the care of Osceola Memory Gardens Funeral Home & Crematory, 1717 Old Boggy Creek Road, Kissimmee, FL 34744 (407) 847-2494 online condolences can be give at: www.osceolamemgds.com

Osceola Memory Gardens Cemetery and Funeral Home
1717 Boggy Creek Road
Kissimmee, FL 34744
(407) 847-2494

Published in Ocala Star-Banner from Mar. 17 to Mar. 18, 2016 
 
Family links: 
 Spouse:
  Ira Carroll Starling (1916 - 1975)

 

Burial:
Osceola Memory Gardens 
Kissimmee
Osceola County
Florida, USA

 
Created by: No Guts, No Glory
Record added: Mar 18, 2016 
Find A Grave Memorial# 159681879

LETTERS IN THE CAN
One time when Ella Mary Starling Herring was a little girl, she was at Martha Elizabeth Purdom Jolly Starling's home. Martha Starling was sick in bed and Ella Mary Starling Herring was staying there to help Martha Starling. Martha Starling had hung a can, from an old ice cream maker,behind the dresser in her bedroom. Martha Starling told Ella Mary Starling Herring to get the container and bring it to her, which Ella Mary did. There were letters in the can and Martha Starling asked Ella Mary to read them out loud to her. Ella Mary seemed to think they were love letters written to Martha Starling from her first husband, William James Jolly. After Ella Mary read them to Martha Starling, she had Ella Mary place them back in the container and hang them behind the dresser. Ella Mary was not sure if Mr. Jolly died or they separated, but Martha was still thinking about him. (Linda Dianne Herring Crompton found out that they were divorced.)

Charley Jolly

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Birth: Dec. 26, 1870

Death: Jul. 9, 1896

 

 

Burial:
Purdom Cemetery 
Volusia County
Florida, USA

 
Created by: Bertha Avery-Hood
Record added: Mar 07, 2011 
Find A Grave Memorial# 66624302

Martha Elizabeth Purdom Jolly Starling

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When Roland Rufus Starling first died, Martha Elizabeth Purdom Jolly Starling lived by her self. Her home was in Holly Hill, Florida and did not have runing water in the house. There was a flow well, just outside the kitchen door. The yard had a big wooden picket fence around it. There were big oak trees in the front yard. This home was not near the beach.

Martha Starling was a person of good morals.

There was a white family, near the corner from Martha Starling, that had two sons who drank alot. Martha called the sons, "Rot gut Charlie" and "Pukey Blackie".

Martha Starling was living in Holly Hill when her son William Joseph Starling married Inez Louise Conrad.

Martha Starling did not work after Roland Starling died. I don't know if the children helped with money or if she was able to support her self.

Martha Starling lived in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1948 when Laura Nettie Purdom LaFollett left 1/2 of her estate to be divided among her 9 siblings and their heirs.

At one time there was a man that lived with Martha Starling. Ira Christopher Starling, Martha's son, paid him to take care of Martha because she was not able to care for her self.

Martha Purdom Starling & Martha Carolyn Starling's Trip to New York

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Told to Linda Dianne Herring Crompton by Martha Carolyn Starling Russell: 

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    In 1929, Ira Carroll Starling Sr. got passes to go to New York for his daughter, Martha Carolyn Starling (Russell), and his mother, Martha Elizabeth Purdom Jolly Starling, to visit Homer & Rosella Bennett. Rosella Bennett was Ira's sister. Ira Carroll said his mother, Martha,would not know how to handle traveling on the train, so that is why he sent his daughter, Martha, with her. Everything went well on the trip. Della Jones Starling was sure to let the Bennett's know, ahead of time, that they were coming. They were met at the Pennsylvania train station by the Bennett's. When they got ready to go back home, Rosella Bennett packed them a lunch and pears to take on the train. When they got to Washington, D.C. they had to change trains. Martha was 12 and she had to get her grandmother, Martha Starling, age 77, and the luggage off the train. The pears had rotted in the paper bag and the bottom fell out, making a mess on the train. Martha was trying clean them up when the porter came through and said the train was going to switch right away, and that they had to get off the train now. So Martha left the garbage and got off the train. Martha got a porter to help make sure they got on the right train from there. This was a two day trip.           

Dr William James Jolly

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Birth: 1848
North Carolina, USA

Death: Sep. 23, 1940
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma County
Oklahoma, USA

 
Family links: 
 Parents:
  Andrew Absalom Jolly (1821 - 1918)
  Rhoda Jane Goodyear Jolly (1825 - 1910)
 
 Siblings:
  William James Jolly (1848 - 1940)
  Charles Franklin Jolly (1853 - 1933)*
  Marshall E. Jolly (1859 - 1919)*
  Mary Jolly (1864 - 1924)*
 
*Calculated relationship

 

Burial:
Memorial Park Cemetery 
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma County
Oklahoma, USA

 
Created by: Lou & Friend Jackie
Record added: Feb 24, 2009 
Find A Grave Memorial# 34160301

1880 United States Federal Census

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Name:Martha Starling
[Martha Elizabeth Purdom Starling] 

Age:24

Birth Year:abt 1856

Birthplace:Georgia

Home in 1880:Volusia, Volusia, Florida

Race:White

Gender:Female

Relation to Head of House:Wife

Marital Status:Married

Spouse's Name:Rolin Starling

Father's Birthplace:Georgia

Mother's Birthplace:Georgia

Neighbors:View others on page

Occupation:Keeping House

Cannot read/write:

Blind:

Deaf and dumb:

Otherwise disabled:

Idiotic or insane:

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Household Members:

NameAge

Rolin Starling24

Martha Starling24

Charlie Jolly Starling8

Ida Starling4

Joseph Starling3

Rosella Starling1

1870 United States Federal Census

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Name:Martha Jolly

Age in 1870:20

Birth Year:abt 1850

Birthplace:South Carolina

Home in 1870:Alachua, Florida

Race:White

Gender:Female

Post Office:Gainesville

Value of real estate:View image

Household Members:

NameAge

James Jolly22

Martha Jolly20

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