Joseph Stone Stafford
1790-about
1856
Hampshire
County, Virginia
Joseph Stone Stafford was born 03 September 1790 in Hampshire County, Virginia,
the sixth of ten children born to Richard and Catharine Brobeker
Stafford. He may have been married twice, but the name of his first wife
is unknown. He married secondly Elizabeth Myer 17 December 1818 in
Allegany County, Maryland. Elizabeth was born 31 January 1790 in
Hampshire County, Virginia, the daughter of John Henry and Charity Ann Wire
Myer. Joseph may have owned land on both sides of the Potomac River,
because he appears in the records of both Hampshire County, Virginia, and
Allegany County, Maryland. They both died in the 1850s, probably in
Hampshire County, Virginia.
His
full name and birthdate are recorded in the Family Bible of Richard and
Catharine Stafford, transcriptions of which were provided by Rita Kay Stafford
Fawcett, Lake Alfred, Florida. A 1790 birthyear is also corroborated by
the 1850 Census. Their marriage record is on file in Allegany County,
Maryland. Their death dates are not known for certain, and their graves
have not been located.
Joseph
was recorded in the 1810 census for Hampshire County, Virginia, with a
wife. Close by was his brother Richard. He is also on the tax and
tithe rolls for Hampshire County from 1811-1814, appearing after he turned
21. On 23 July 1810, Joseph Stafford and his brother John witnessed the
will of their mother Catharine Stafford. Ten years later, Joseph filed a
lawsuit against his siblings and Daniel Collins, executor of his mother’s
estate, for his share in the estate of his brother Washington who died in
childhood.
During
the War of 1812, Joseph served as a sergeant in Captain William McLaughlin’s
company from Allegany County, Maryland. In 1812, a bill of sale with his
name on it is recorded in Hampshire County.
If
Joseph’s marriage information is correct, then his oldest daughter Elizabeth
was probably born to his first union in 1818. Perhaps his first wife died
in child birth since he married Elizabeth Myer in December of that year.
In 1820, he is recorded with a wife and daughter in the Hampshire County census
near his brother Westley Stafford. In 1830 they are in Allegany County,
Maryland. That same year he was appointed a constable for District 6 with
John Hayes, William Houx, and Theophilus Beall. In 1840, he was recorded
in the census for Hampshire County, and again in 1850. By 1860, both he
and Elizabeth are gone from the census.
Joseph
had eight children, the first from his first marriage—Elizabeth Jane Stafford
Wiley, born 1818; Washington, born 1820; John Wesley, born 1823; Sarah Stafford
Long, born 1824; William Josephus Stafford, born 1827; Susan Catherine Stafford
Brace, born 1829; James R. Stafford, born 1830; and Mary Elizabeth Stafford
Ridgley, born 1834. Washington Stafford’s biography in a history of
Livingston County, Illinois, confirms these eight children of Joseph.
In
the 1850 Census, a girl named Frances E. Stafford, born 1843 in Virginia, is
recorded in their household. There is also a Joseph Stafford, born 1831
in Maryland, recorded in the household of Joseph & Margaret White Logdson,
Allegany County, Maryland. They are likely a niece and nephew to Joseph
Stone Stafford, but to whom they belonged is unknown at this time.
Marriage
records for Elizabeth, Washington, John, Susan and Mary are recorded in
Allegany County, Maryland. William married in Coshocton County, Ohio,
having moved there with his brother Washington. It may be presumed that
Sarah married in Hampshire County, as those records have been destroyed, and
she is not recorded in Allegany County. James married in Wood County,
Virginia. Of Joseph’s eight children, all but Washington and William
remained in West Virginia and Maryland.
Elizabeth Jane Stafford Wiley
Elizabeth
Jane Stafford was born about 1818 in Hampshire County, Virginia, according to
the 1850 census. She married Zale Wiley 12 September 1839 in Allegany
County, Maryland, and they had four children—James, John Edward, Laban, and
Elizabeth. Elizabeth died between 1850-1852, and Zale married Sarah Jane
Beall 25 November 1852. Zale’s will is dated 11 November 1855, probated
25 November, listing four children—John Edward, Laban, Elizabeth Ann, and Eliza
Jane—the youngest of which was his daughter by Sarah. James must have
already been dead. Hampshire County records show that Joseph W.H. Pollock
and David Gibson were named guardians over Zale Wiley’s children on 26 November
1855.
John
Edward Wiley married Delilah Catherine Hart and lived out his life in
Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. In 1920, his cousin James Long was
living in his household.
Laban
Joseph Wiley may be the same man who married Mary E. Hott in 1870, Cumberland,
Allegany County, Maryland, and later lived in Buchannan County, Missouri.
In 1893, he married secondly Mary L. Dowell in Macon County, Missouri. He
had at least three children—Jennie, born 1885; Archie, born 1889; and Frederick
D., born 1894. He died in 1925 and is buried in Saint Joseph, Buchannan
County, Missouri. His gravestone says he was a bugler in Company D of the
4th Pennsylvania Calvary during the Civil War.
Elizabeth
Ann Wiley was raised in the family of her aunt Susan Stafford Brace, lived with
them the rest of her life, and died in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1902.
Washington
Stafford
According
to his tombstone and census information, Washington Stafford was born 05
September 1820 in Hampshire County, Virginia, and he died 28 May 1909 in
Chenoa, McLean, Illinois. He married Elizabeth Licklighter 29 November
1842 in Allegany County, Maryland. She was born 05 February 1823 in
Hampshire County, Virginia, and died 06 January 1902 in Chenoa, McLean,
Illinois. Elizabeth was the daughter of George Peter and Rosanna Cook
Licklighter, who settled in Richland County, Ohio, in the 1840s.
Washington and Elizabeth are buried at Payne’s Cemetery in Livingston County,
Illinois.
After
their marriage, they lived in Hampshire County, Virginia, until the late 1840s,
when they moved to Coshocton County, Ohio, to live near Uncle Francis
Stafford. In 1852, they moved to Livingston County, Illinois, settling
near Eppard’s Point, where they lived until 1890, when they moved to Chenoa.
Washington
and Elizabeth Stafford had ten children, nine of which are named, and eight of
which lived to adulthood to have families of their own—James William, born
1843; John Wesley, born 1846; Joseph Milton, born 1849; Mary Louisa Flurer,
born 1852; Matilda Catherine Foltz, born 1855; Lydia Elizabeth Schubkagel, born
1861; George B. McClellan, born 1864; Mazie Jane McNeil, born 1865; and
Isabella Hanna, born about 1870. Isabella and an unnamed baby born about
1858 died without marrying or having children.
James
fought in the Civil War with Company E of the 129th Regiment of
Illinois Volunteer Infantry. After some travels out west in the 1860s, he
returned to Eppard’s Point, married Katherine Hartman in 1871, and moved his
family to Taylor County, Iowa, in February 1875. In 1877, they moved to
Grayson County, Texas, and finally in 1883, they settled just north of Vernon,
Texas, in Wilbarger County on the Red River. James established the first
post office at Fargo, and this is where they raised their ten children.
John
Stafford married Margaret Reidell and settled in Ringgold County, Iowa, Taylor
County’s neighbor to the west. They had two children.
Joseph
married Sarah Elizabeth McDannell and they lived in Polk County, Iowa, and for
a short time in Colorado. They had four sons and a daughter. In the
1880s, Joseph went to Colorado or Arizona with a partner driving a mixed herd
of horses and cattle and was never heard from again.
George
Stafford married Mary Weller and moved to Wilbarger County, Texas, before
finally settling in California. They had three daughters.
The
Schubkagel and Foltz families settled in Kansas. Louisa Flurer and Mazie
McNeil remained in Chenoa, Illinois, at least until after the death of their
mother in 1902.
John
Wesley Stafford
John
Wesley Stafford was born 1823 in Hampshire County, Virginia. He married
Elizabeth Licklighter 10 September 1853 in Allegany County, Maryland. She
was the daughter of George Peter and Catherine Licklighter and cousin to
Elizabeth Licklighter who married Washington Stafford. John and Elizabeth
lived in Hampshire (now Mineral) County, West Virginia. John died before
1871, when Elizabeth Licklighter Stafford married George Clise. John and
Elizabeth had four children—Joseph Berkeley, born 1854; George Milton, born
1856; Charles Greenbury, born 1858; and Susan, born 1859. Joseph died as
a baby.
George
married Martha Lavine Bucy, and they had six sons who produced a large family
that remains in the Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, area. Charles
married Anna Klosterman and had a son and a daughter.
Sarah
Stafford Long
Sarah
Stafford was born about 1824 in Hampshire County, Virginia, and died after
1880. She married John Long, a boatman from the Hampshire County-Allegany
County area about 1840. John was born in 1818 in Virginia. They
lived in Hampshire County, Virginia, until about 1868, when they moved to
Allegany County, Maryland, living there at least as late as 1880
John
and Sarah Long had eleven children, all of them except the last born in
Hampshire County, Virginia—Nelson, born 1842; Noah, born 1844; Catharine, born
1846; James, born 1848; Mary, born 1852; Daniel, born 1856; Amanda, born 1858;
Elvira, born 1860; Virginia, born 1864; Philip, born 1866; and John, born 1869.
William J. Stafford
William
J. Stafford was born in 1827 in Hampshire County, Virginia.
He went with his brother Washington and the Licklighters to Coshocton County,
Ohio, in the 1840s, where he married Mary Licklighter 22 February 1849.
Mary was born 18 Mary 1825 in Hampshire County, Virginia, the daughter of
George P. and Rosanna Cook Licklighter. William and Mary Stafford and the
Licklighters had settled in Richland County, Ohio, where all of their children
were born. Mary died there 14 Feb 1898. William is recorded on the
1900 census, but died before 1910. They are buried in the Four
Corners-Zion Cemetery, Worthington Township, Richland County, Ohio.
William
and Mary had six children—John T., born 1851; Martha H., born 1854; Arabella
M., born 1856; William J. Stafford Jr., born 1857; Mary Ellen, born 1863; and
Charlotte, born 1867. John and Charlotte died as children and are buried
in the Four Corners-Zion Cemetery. William married Rachel Lovezilla,
maiden name unknown, and they are also buried in the Four Corners-Zion
Cemetery.
Susan Catherine Stafford Brace
Susan
Catherine Stafford was born 1829 in Hampshire County, Virginia, and died 17
March 1921 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. She married William Brace
Sr. 16 October 1849 in Allegany County, Maryland. William was born 1820 in
Connecticut to parents who immigrated from Wales. He was a veteran of the
Mexican War, and was later employed by the B&O Railroad, and by the city of
Cumberland as a civil engineer.
William
and Susan Stafford Brace had seven children—William Jr., born 1850; Mary, born
1852; Charles H., born 1855; Harry C., born 1858; Susan C. Brace Hitchins
Klives, born 1861; Thomas, born 1863; Theodore, born 1865. Mary and
Thomas died as children. William was a lawyer and politician, first in
Cumberland, then in Chicago. Charles H. was a doctor for all of his adult
life in Cumberland, Maryland. Harry was a prominent newspaper man in St.
Louis. Susan and Edward Stanley Hitchins had two sons before she left
them and married Charles Klives. She died in St. Louis. Theodore
was in the wholesale clothing business in St. Louis.
James R. Stafford
James
Stafford was born April 1830, in Allegany County, Maryland, and died 07 march
1902 in Wood County, West Virginia. He left Hampshire County about 1851,
settling in Wood County where he married Pulcharia Jackson 26 October
1852. James fought for the Union Army, 15th West Virginia
Infantry, during the Civil War.
Their
children included Anna Maria Pocahontas “Pokey” Stoops, born 1853; Alice Rose
Fleming, born 1856; Raleigh Cager Stafford, born 1858; Mary Stafford, born
1862; Herbert Stafford, born 1867; Caroline “Carrie” Stafford, born 1869;
Garnett Stafford, born 1877; and Jeremiah, born 1880. Their families can
be found in the Wood County, Area, during the period 1870-1930, and many
descendants still live in the area today.
Mary Stafford Ridgley
Mary
was born in 1834 in Hampshire County, Virginia. She married William
Ridgley 28 April 1851 in Allegany County, Maryland, where they lived until the
1860s. At that time, they relocated to Fairmont, Marion County, West
Virginia. In 1892, William Ridgley was elected first mayor of the village
of West Fairmont. Their children included Charles, born 1853; Amanda,
born 1855; David, born 1858; Emma, born 1861, Lloyd, born 1863; Mollie, born
1865; Frank, born 1867; William, born 1870; Elizabeth, born 1873; Cora, born
1876; and Charles, born 1880. Of these, Charles1, Amanda,
Emma, Mollie, and Charles2 did not live to adulthood. Most of
the others can be found with their families in Marion County, West Virginia, in
the period 1870-1930.