Albert Stanley
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BIOGRAPHY

Albert Stanley, a Confederate soldier, was born in Howard County Missouri about 1840. He came to Texas with his parents, Ramey and Lucinda (Amick) Stanley in 1852. In 1861, he enlisted in Captain Witt's Company, Colonel Darnell's Regiment. He served in Arkansas and one year and three years in Louisiana.
Some of the battles he took part in were Prairie Grove, Pleasant Hill, Mansfield, and Milliken's Bend. He served as a private until the time of surrender and his discharge in Houston in 1865.

After the war, Albert took up farming in Dallas County. In 1867 he married Cassie Riggs, a daughter of Stephen R9iggs of Denton County. They had three children, Charles, Susan and Lucinda. Charles and Lucinda died young. Susan married Walter Ward of Alabama. Susan and Walter Ward had seven children: Charles, Belle (Colwell), Cora (Knight), Stanley, Pearl, Alvin, and Loyd. Albert lost his first wife by death, and in 1877 he married Susan Caroline Grace, widow of Squire Grace of Denton County. THey did not have children but adopted Cambo Crawford and Isaac Thomas. Albert Stanley is buried at Keenan Cemetery in Farmers Branch.

(There are two Albert Stanley graves at Keenan Cemetery. One reads: "Born May 10, 1835, Died May 31, 1907". The second marker reads: "Born June 2, 1838, Died February 13, 1909", and at the bottom of the marker, "Erected by Sudie Ward"

 

 
OBITUARY

DIED WHILE HUNTING
Albert Stanley of Grapevine Was Engaged in Wolf Hunt.
Albert Stanley, aged 72, dropped dead near Grapevine Prairie, on May 31. He was one of the oldest and most honored citizens in that section of the country. He came there about fifty years ago and had resided there ever since. He was on a "stand" during a wolf hunt at the time of his death. The hunt was inaugurated in order to catch the wolves that were driven from the bottoms of Elm Fork by the high water. After the hunt was over, Stanley was not in the crowd, and a search revealed him lying in the edge of the rising waters, dead.

Dallas Morning News - June 3, 1907
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams
OBITUARY

FARMER FOUND DEAD
Dies of Heart Failure While Engaged in Wolf Hunt

IRVING, June 1. - Albert Stanley, a well-to-do farmer, living about six miles north of Irving, was found dead yesterday about 12 o'clock on the Elm River bank, about two miles from his home. He had been on a wolf chase with a cr9owd of his neighbors and his body was discovered a very short time after he had died.
Justice Gregory of this precinct held an inquest last night and rendered a verdict of heart failure according to the facts as stated above.

Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

 


ALBERT STANLEY
Born May 10, 1835
Died May 31, 1907

Keenan Cemetery, Farmers Branch,  Dallas Co., Texas
 

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