Stanly Family

STANLY BENNETT BOND

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/18/2010 at 20:24:18

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Stanly Family
By Mamie (Stanly) Cooper

George Washington Stanly was born in Hanover County, Virginia. He married Penelope Bond, daughter of Exum and Judah (Bennett) Bond, who was born October 27, 1815, in Chester County, Ohio. George died January 20, 1862, in Preble County, Ohio, and Penelope died February 4, 1858, at Diamond Cross. Their children were eight in number. The second child was my grandfather, Joseph Scott, born July 25, 1838, at Camden, Ohio. He married August 28, 1863, to Sarah Ann Nixon, daughter of James W and Catherine Nixon. (Joseph’s sister, Sarah Ann, married John Michael Yockey who lived at Smithland.) Children of Joseph and Sarah Stanly were:
1( Ella, died in infancy;
2( Samuel, born May, 1866, died January 19, 1929, at Hornick;
3( William, born April 23, 1868 and died November 22, 1952; He married October 26, 1905, to Mintha Stratton, who had a son by a former marriage. He often went by the name of Lenny Stanly.
4(Sarah Isabelle, born April 18, 1873, at Ida Grove. She married Louis Grous, February 26, 1895, at Piero.
5( Joseph Robert, my father, born September 29, 1877, at Ida Grove, and died February 14, 1956, at Oto. He married Seba Mead, daughter of A C and Dell Livermore Mead.
Grandfather Stanly was a Civil War Veteran. After the war, he, his wife, two sisters, and probably some Bond cousins, started for the west with covered wagons. They stopped for a time at Belleville, Kansas, and then onward. Some went to Dundee County, Nebraska; grandfather and his sisters went to Ida County and settled near Ida Grove. I can remember my father saying that their log house was set into a bank and had three wooden sides, probably logs.
Sarah Isabelle’s children were:
1( Alice, who died in infancy;
2( Leroy, born 1897, died 1969 and married Leila Ralston, a teacher;
3( Lucy Stanly, born 1898 at Sergeant Bluff, married Clarence Allen, December 27, 1918, at Hornick;
4( Joseph Scott, born October 9, 1900, at Hornick, died March 2, 1975 at Laurens, Iowa, married Mabel Peterson, December 19, 1928, at Pocahontas;
5( Elsie, born March 11, 1902, at Hornick, died March 2, 1926, at Onawa, marred Dean Koffman on December 24, 1926, at Mondamin;
6( Helen, born January 13, 1904, at Hornick, married Joseph Scherer in Santa Ana, Calif, on September 6, 1940;
7( Louis B, born March 12, 1910, at Hornick, married Geralda Sane, August 16, 1938, at Sioux City, died September 19, 1974, at Wells, Minnesota;
8( Charles H, born March 19, 1912, at Hornick, married Josephine Healy, June 25, 1949, at Las Vegas, Nevada.
Joseph Robert, my father, was born September 29, 1877, at Ida Grove, died February 14, 1956, at Oto. He married November 2, 1912, at Sioux City, to Seba E Mead, daughter of Achilles and Dell (Livermore) Mead. Grandmother Mead was the daughter of Charles C and Caroline (Storing) Livermore. Grandfather Mead was the son of Minor Burton and Mary (Locke) Mead. To our family were born three children.
1( George Robert was born August 14, 1914, at Sioux City, died February 10, 1956, at Oto. George never married. At an early age he contracted polio, which left him handicapped.
2( I, Mamie Estella, was born July 31, 1916, at Oto. I married Lewis Cooper, November 24, 1941, at Forsythe, Missouri. Lewis is the son of Chancey and Grace (Payne) Cooper. We have eight children.
3( Ella Marguerite, my sister, was born March 17, 1919, at Hornick. She married Raymond Dawdy, son of Charles and Agnes Dawdy, on December 19, 1944, at Omaha, Nebraska. They have one son.
I was operator for the local company for a number of years. Marguerite also worked there. Then with two small sons we emigrated to northern Wisconsin. Lewie went ahead with the cattle, team of horses, chickens, dog, furniture, tractor, machinery, and our car on the railroad. I came later with the boys on the train.
Except for five years, when we lived and worked in Arizona, we have farmed the same farm ten miles north of Ladysmith. When winters seem too severe, we pack up and high tail it to a warmer climate.
Note: Mamie was a member of the Martha Washington Chapter DAR through her ancestor, Abraham Livermore.