HISTORY OF THE STANLEYS

Three Stanley brothers came from England and settled in North Carolina. Some years later one moved into Tennessee, one into Kentucky, and one into Mississippi. The one who moved into Tennessee married a Miss Fernifore. Their children were: Fernifore, John, Isaac, Polly, Cynthia, and Elizabeth.

Fernifore Stanley was sheriff at Perryville, Perry County, Tennessee, for many years. He married Elizabeth Dickson, after some years moved to Texas on flatboats, landed at "Old Roland", and settled on "Stanley Prairie", four miles South of Clarksville, in March of 1842. Their children were: John, who died in young manhood, James Wright, William, Carolyn, Allen and Adeline, twins, never married, and lived at Clarksville. Other children were: Marion, Emaline, who died in childhood, James K. Polk, Samuel and Angeline Stanley.

James Wright Stanley was born in Perry County, Tennessee, on January 31, 1823. He came to Texas in March, 1842, and served in Company I. 7th Texas Cavalry in the war with Mexico 1846-48. He was sheriff of Red River County before and during the Civil War, but he resigned at the close of the war. He also belonged to the Red River Company Militia. He married Juliet Narcissa Moore on January 22, 1851, at Clarksville.[*] Their children were: Amanda W., who died in infancy, Mary T., William Marion,

[* The remainder of this paragraph retells the sketch on p. 135, with some slightly different name spelling.]