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Mary,
I am not related to your Sterling family, but my great grandfather worked in the banking business with them.
Here is what I found in the book "The Chosen Land":
"The Edd Sterling family is the third generation of the Barber County pioneer family.
Edd's father William James Sterling was the first born of Robert and Mary R. Taylor Sterling. Robert immigrated from North Ireland to Mauchnuck, Pennsylvania with his parents, Henry and Martha Sterling in 1832. Robert moved west to Sullivan County, Missouri in 1835 and by entry and purchase secured a tract of government land, where he lived until his death in 1888. In 1859 William wed Mary, born in Tennessee in 1837 to Mr. and Mrs. Mekin Taylor. Their seven children born in Missouri, resided in Barber County for many years. They were William J.; Sarah (Mrs. W.J. May); Nancy (Mrs. Powell Willhite); John; Samuel; Jennie (Mrs. M.M. Grever); and Ida (Mrs. Thomas Kenney).
In 1884, William age 23, accompanied his brothers and sisters to Barber County. Although individual siblings preempted a claim, for sometime they maintained a common home; there only neighbors were antelope and prarie dogs.
In less than 20 years, through his dilligent labor and discriminative management, William expanded his claim to 1700 acres, 800 of which were under cultivation. As a stockman he maintained 400 head of cattle, and his swine production's annual sales averaged $13,000.
William and Nora (Willhite) Steling were married December 24, 1885; there sons were: Geroge born in 1890 and Eddie born November 7, 1892."
I have a newspaper clipping from 1911 showing Geo. E. and W.J. Sterling as directors of the Hardtner State Bank along with my great grandfather J.M. Molz and my great great grandfather Chas. Molz.
Hope this helps.
Dave Smith
Leadville, CO
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