Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon." Portland,
OR: Print & Lithographing House of A.  G.  Walling, 1882.  p. a35.

WILLIAM STANFIELD

	who lives on a farm six miles north east of Walla Walla, was born in
Illinois, near the Wabash river, January 13, 1835.  His father, James Stanfield,
was a minister, lived on a farm, and was a native of Tennessee.  He moved from
Illinois, when William was about three years old, to Mahaska Co., Iowa, and in
1862 across the plains to Walla Walla, where he died in March, 1876.  At twenty
two years of age, William left home, and was married to Sarah De Witt, an Ohio
lady, May 29, 1857.  In 1864, Mr. and Mrs. Stanfield crossed the plains to Walla
Walla, where he for a time engaged in day labor, and then became a teamster, in
which capacity he visited nearly all the mountain mining camps, until 1868, when
he settled on the 160 acres of land where his home now is, end has since
increased the original amount to 280 acres, all of which is fenced and under
cultivation.  In addition to this, he has 40 acres of timber in the mountains.
The early life of Mr. Stanfield was passed in the country, at a time when life
was a constant struggle to sustain itself, and the advantages now within the
reach of all American youths, such as an education and the hundreds of
conveniences and opportunities for pleasure common to all, was an elysium, where
he was permitted to stand at the gate, but could not enter.  How little the
youth of this generation appreciate the advantage they possess, over the one
that saw their fathers enter upon the great plain of life's struggle.  The names
and dates of birth of Mr. and Mrs. Stanfield's children are as follows:˜Emma R.,
June 24, 1858, married to Levi Malone in September, 1873; Charles H., April 6,
1860; Thomas J., September 10, 1862; Carrie M., July 24, 1865; Alice, November
24, 1867; Frank E., September 24, 1870; Edward, January 6, 1873; Dolly, November
8, 1876, died, August 6, 1878.

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Submitted to the WA.  Bios Project in February 2007 by Diana Smith.

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