Apphia Cunningham, a daughter of Apphia (née Cleveland) and Robert Cunningham, was born in 1832 on her family's farm in Cheney's Grove Township, McLean County, Illinois, where her family had settled in 1829. Her father, an Indiana militia veteran who fought in the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe, had purchased Federal land in the timbered area from which the township took its name. Her unusual name Apphia is Biblical, from Greek meaning bountiful, fruitful.

"Effa" Cunningham and Jesse Stine married on 24 July 1852 in McLean County. The couple became the parents of five children. The couple in 1855 were farming in Le Roy Township, McLean County, and in 1860 Cheney's Grove Township. A few years later, they were farming in Vermilion County, Illinois, and then in adjoining Vermillion County, Indiana. In 1881, Apphia and Jesse Stine moved to Bourbon County, Kansas, and resided there in Hiattville, where Jesse Stine was a hotel keeper, and ran a restaurant and a confectionary store. Apphia Stine died from typhoid fever on 9 November 1893 in Hiattville. Her husband, admitted to Kansas State Soldiers' Home, survived her by less than a year.

Burial place unconfirmed.

Children not linked

• Mary Malvina Stine Lancaster (about 1855 – before 1895)
• Charity V. Stine Kendall (about 1858 – after 1898)
• Nelson Edward Stine (May 1870 – 1880-85)

Notes

Reported date of birth is unsourced, but fairly consistent with successive census enumerations.

Cheney's Grove Township in: The History of McLean County, Illinois (Chicago: Wm. Le Baron, Jr., and Co., 1879), pp. 537-38. Confirms that Apphia was the mother of five children.

Illinois State Archives, Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900.

1850 U.S. Census, Cheney's Grove Twp., McLean Co., Illinois; dwelling 1654, family 1692, lines 35-39, p. 99, 8 Nov 1850.
35. Robert Cunningham, 70, farmer (land worth $2,500), North Carolina.
36. "Apphiah" -----, 58, New York.
37. Anna Ball, 35, Indiana.
38. "Aphiah" Cunningham, 18, Illinois.
39. Robert -----, 16, farmer, Illinois.

1860 U.S. Census, Cheney's Grove Twp., McLean Co., Illinois; dwelling 595, family 595, lines 18-22, p. 96, 10 Aug 1860.
18. Jesse Stine [head], 27, farmer, Indiana.
19. Apphia -----, 27, Illinois.
20. Melvina -----, 5, Illinois.
21. Charity V. -----, 2, Illinois.
22. Sylvester -----, 1/12, Illinois.
• Jesse Stine had real estate worth $600 and personal property worth $500; several Cunninghams on same page.

1870 U.S. Census, Highland Twp., Vermillion Co., Indiana; dwelling 4, family 4, lines 26-33, p. 86 (printed), p. 1 (written), 6 Jun 1870.
26. Jesse "Stien" [head], 37, farmer (-0-: $150), Indiana.
27. Aphia -----, 37, keeps house, Illinois.
28. May M. -----, 14, at home, Illinois.
29. Charity V. -----, 12, at home, Illinois.
30. Charles S. -----, 10, at home, Illinois.
31. Anna S. -----, 7, at home, Illinois.
32. Nelson E. -----, 1/12, at home Indiana.
33. Hanthorne, Wm., 10, domestic servant, Indiana.
• Vermillion Co., Indiana, borders Vermilion Co., Illinois.

1880 U.S. Census, E.D. 186, Highland Twp., Vermillion Co., Indiana; dwelling 199, family 204, lines 18-22, p. 20 (printed), p. 19 (written), 9-10 Jun 1880.
18. Stines, Jesse, 50, farm hand; born in Indiana, father in South Carolina, mother in Georgia.
19. Aphia -----, 47, wife, keeping house; born in Illinois, father in North Carolina, mother in New York.
20. Charity V. -----, 22, daughter, domestic serv., Illinois.
21. Anna Jane -----, 17, daughter, domestic serv., Illinois.
22. Edward N. -----, 10, son, at home, spinal disease, Indiana.

1885 Kansas state census, Pawnee Twp., Bourbon Co.; dwelling 2, family 2, lines 9-11, p. 23, 1 Mar 1885 [image 34 of 74].
9. Stine, "Jessee," 54, hotel keeper, Indiana; enlisted in Illinois, Co. K, 135th Regt.
10. Stine A., 53, female, Illinois.
11. Stine, E., 14, male, Indiana.

"Died," Fort Scott Daily Tribune, Fort Scott, Kansas, 11 Nov 1893, p. 8.

Reviewed 12 October 2021.