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As It Was: Maybelle and Joe Stallcup Settle in Shasta Valley

The teacher at the Big Springs School in Siskiyou County, Calif., Maybelle Needham, married Joe Stallcup in 1916.  A home was built for the young couple on the Stallcup ranch where Needham had boarded with the family.
After marrying Stallcup, Maybelle continued to teach school, including one year at the Shasta View School at the Dwinnell Dam, two years at Delta, and more than a dozen years at Big Springs.  She gained considerable respect from students and their families.  One of her students recalled that the class wove a tablecloth from flax that they had planted and harvested. 

Joe Stallcup worked on the family’s ranch with his brothers, John, who managed the hay crew, and Tom, who ran the pumps, kept books, milked cows and sharpened the hay rakes twice a day.  Joe managed the irrigation and assisted with the four one-acre gardens located on the homestead, a showplace of fruit trees, flowers, and shrubs.

Joe and Maybelle had one child, Barbara May, who later moved to Portland and married Lee Miller.
 

Source: “The Edward Stallcup Family.” The Siskiyou Pioneer, Vol. 3 No. 4, 1961. Siskiyou County Historical Society. pp. 80 – 83.

Gail Fiorini-Jenner is a writer and teacher. Her first novel "Across the Sweet Grass Hills", won the 2002 WILLA Literary Award. She co-authored four histories with Arcadia Publishing: Western Siskiyou County: Gold & Dreams, Images of the State of Jefferson, The State of Jefferson: Then & Now, which placed in the 2008 Next Generation Awards for Nonfiction and Postcards from the State of Jefferson.