Gard's Grassroots Genealogy:J. R. Stanley's Family
 
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     HUSBAND John Robert STANLEY
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     BIRTH:  12 Nov 1835          PLACE: ,Warren Co.,Tenn.
     CHR.:                        PLACE:
     MAR.:   10 Feb 1856          PLACE:
     FATHER: Alfred Muer STANLEY                                 MOTHER: Margaret HEATHER
    Ol John lived all over Lake Co. Calif. and was an early settler of Indian Valley.  He didn't seem tostay too long as he resided in Middletown and Lower Lake.  Mauldin has him coming to Lake Co. in 1863.  Postmaster @ Lower Lake 3Sep1874 to 15Feb.1881.  He was variously a rancher, postmaster, justice of the peace and notary public there.  He married possibly twice more.  He wrote the Stanley estate in England to see if there was any of it available and was told yes but it would be too expensive to claim any.  See Ransom Heenan's notes below.
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     WIFE    Juliette PURKEYPILE
                  some of Juliette's family are listed here
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     FATHER: Alfred PURKEYPILE                                   MOTHER: Frances STANDARD
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     CHILDREN
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      1. NAME: Alfred Ozias STANLEY
     --- BIRTH:   2 May 1857          PLACE:
      Alfred's Children were:
        1. Julietta STANLEY
        2. John Edwin STANLEY
        3. Alfred Mortimer "Mort" STANLEY who bought the Middleton Independent from his father about 1911. The Lake Co. Calif. Great Register has him as a stockraiser in 1878.
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      2. NAME: Ransom Heenan STANLEY
     --- BIRTH:  10 Jun 1860          PLACE: Decatur Co.,Iowa
   According to the 1906 biography of Ransom H. Stanley, I will provide this
extract:

Born in Decatur county, Iowa, June 10, 1861, Ransom H. Stanley was a child
about five years when in, 1866, the family crossed the plains with wagons
and ox-teams, settling in Placer County, where the father engaged in mining
about eighteen months.  From there he went to Petaluma and engaged in the
slaughtering business for San Francisco wholesale meat houses.  After
perhaps ten years he removed to Lake County, this state, and settled at the
village of Lower Lake, where he filled the offices of postmaster and
justice of peace.  His wife died in California, where their son was only
six years of age.  The latter was educated in grammar schools and the Napa
High School, from which he was graduated in 1880 . . . . .

R.H. Stanley moved to Lassen and then Modoc County and where he was engaged
in the newspaper business.

From the Great Register:  8/82 he was a printer Lower Lake.

from a Modoc Co. newspaper from Tim Purdy:     Ransom H. Stanley married Miss Christine Anderson at Adin, Modoc County on 8 March 1891.  They had at least three children:  Leon, Fay and Heath.
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      3. NAME: Minnie Francis STANLEY
     --- BIRTH:  29 Jul 1862          PLACE:
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      4. NAME: Juliet STANLEY
     --- BIRTH:  29 Jul 1865          PLACE:
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      5. NAME: Martha STANLEY
     --- BIRTH:  30 Apr 1870          PLACE:
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     HUSBAND  John Robert STANLEY
       NOTES:
         A typed note I got from Norma Ledbetter:
         Our Great-great-grandfather was Lord Stanley of Stanley Manor at Berkshire, England. But g.g.grandfather of ours was disinherited because he married a French maid, Bettie.  He became a captain of a ship,  there was quite an estate left in England. Uncle J.R. (John  Robert) Stanley being a lawyer traced it up, and the ones handling the estate admitted there was still a vast estate, but they wrote it would take so much red tape on account of their son being disinherited, it would cost more than it was worth to get it. I saw this letter that they wrote to Uncle John Robert which was during the year of 1893 so he and father concluded to let it drop.
           by Annie Stanley Reynolds   (dau of C.C.Stanley).
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02Nov'99