Compatriot Dirk A. Stapleton, wife Laura, and daughter Victoria live in Kansas City,
Missouri. Compatriot Stapleton joined the Sons of the American Revolution on January 28, 2002
as a Member of the Harry S. Truman Chapter. His application was signed by Robert L. Grover.
Compatriot Stapleton, served in the U.S. Army for 23 years, where his career in the Army
began as an enlisted Soldier in the Kansas Army National Guard and completed his military career as a Lieutenant Colonel in
the U.S. Army Reserve. He progressed through the ranks to become a noncommissioned officer, and then attended the Reserve
Officers Training Corps at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas, where he received his commission as a Second Lieutenant
in 1988. Compatriot Stapleton has served on Active Duty, the United States Army Reserve, and with the Kansas Army National
Guard. Compatriot Stapleton has held numerous positions and served in the Quartermaster, Personnel, and Field Artillery Corps
throughout his career as well as serving on overseas duty in Germany, Southwest Asia (Operation Iraqi Freedom), and the South
Korean theaters of operation.
Ancestry: John Stapleton, who resided during the American Revolution at Oley, Berks
County, Pennsylvania assisted in establishing American Independence while acting in the capacity of a First Lieutenant
in Captain George Focht's 4th Company of the First Battalion, Berks County Militia.
John Stapleton served as a first Lieutenant in Captain George Focht's Company of the First Battalion,
Berks County militia, Colonel Daniel Hunter, Commanding. First Lieutenant Stapleton participated in the New Jersey and
Pennsylvania campaigns during 1777-1778.
John Stapleton was a farmer by trade. He is listed in the book, "BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA", page 936. In 1780, he married Rosina Miller who was the daughter of the immigrant John William
Miller of Oley. In 1790, First Census of the United States, lists John Stapleton living in Berks County, with one male
over 16, two males under 16, and five females including head of household.
"History Of Berks County, PA in the Revolution from 1774 to 1783" by Morton L. Montgomery states the
following in his book. "COUNTY RETURNS FOR 1777. Colonel Jacob Morgan and his sub-lieutenants met at Reading on
April 25, 1777, for the purpose of receiving returns of the inhabitants of Berks County between the ages of 18 and 53 years.
The number then returned was about 4000. These were arranged in six districts, and meetings were ordered to be held
on the 5th and 6th of May following, for the purpose of electing officers and forming companies. Morgan reported that
he had forwarded to the Executive Council an exact list of the field officers, captains, subalterns and court-martial men,
comprising the six battalions of the Berks County militia, or one battalion for each district. The list appears in the
Pennsylvania Associators, vol. 2, pp. 257 to 276. The several battalions were returned on May 16, 1777. Lieutenant
Stapleton's companany was orgainized as follows:
4th Company - Oley, PA
George Focht
Captain
John Stapleton 1st Lieutenant
Jacob Griesemer 2nd Lieutenant
John
Yoder Ensign
Daniel Levan
Court martial man
George Yoder Court martial man
John Stapleton (son of John Stapleton, Sr. and Maria Margaretha (Geiger) Stapleton) was born 29
September 1751, in Berks County, Pennsylvania; died 17 May 1820, and is buried at Amityville, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
He married Rosina Miller, daughter of (John Wilhelm Miller ). She died 15 July 1833 and is buried at Amityville,
Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Descendants of John Stapleton
1 John Stapleton 1751 - 1820
.. +Rosina Miller 1764 - 1833
........ 2 William Stapleton 1781
- 1849
............ +Elizabeth Drumheller 1795 - 1874
................... 3 William Stapleton 1816 - 1899
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+Elizabeth Specht 1828 - 1903
............................. 4 Elmer Ellsworth Stapleton 1861 - 1941
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+Elizabeth Merk 1865 - 1949
........................................ 5 William (Ed) Stapleton 1892 - 1963
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+Mary Lucille Schlerth 1892 - 1963
.................................................. 6 Alexander Albert Stapleton
1931 - 1962
.........................................................+ Donna Mae Harrier 1933 - .............................................................. 7 Dirk
Albert Stapleton 1959 - ...................................................................+ Laura Lynette Kelley 1965 - ........................................................................ 8 Victoria
Lynette Stapleton 1995 -
