This photograph copied from a composite photograph shows Julia Ann Beauchemin Stinson, (1834-1925 ), an early pioneer and settler of Shawne County, Kansas. Julia was born in 1834 at the Shawnee Methodist Indian Mission, near present day Kansas City, where she was raised and educated. It was at the mission that she meet Thomas Stinson and married him in 1850. After their wedding the couple moved near present day Tecumseh, Kansas on land that was allotted to Julia because of her Shawnee Indian descent. On this land Thomas platted the future townsite of Tecumseh and Julia named it after her mother's cousin Shawnee chief and warrior Tecumseh. Thomas and Julia farmed around 600 to 800 acres of land and owned and operated a general store where they traded with the local population. Julia spent nearly all of her life in Tecumseh raising her family and farming the land with Thomas while being actively involved in her community. On July 16, 1925, Julia Ann Beauchemie Stinson passed away at the age of ninety-one. To learn more about Thomas and Julia view their manuscript collection MS. Coll. 511 unit id: 40511.

Date: Between 1857 and 1867