Miles Stanford (1901)

BRACEWELL, GASTON, LADD, MOSIER, PARROTT, RICHARDSON, STANFORD, THORNLEY

Posted By: Kathi Kuhl
Date: 2/21/2025 at 17:03:29

The Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Sunday, March 17, 1901
Page 13

Death of a Polk County Pioneer

Miles Stanford was born in Henry county, Indiana, November 29, 1828 and died March 8, 1901, at the home where he has lived for almost a half century.

On January 10, 1850, he was united and married to Charlotte Richardson, of Wayne County, Indiana, and in 1853, brought his family to the farm in Polk County, where he has since resided. His first wife died January 11, 1866, and on September 25, 1870, he was again married to Elizabeth Ladd, of Louisville, Indiana, who with the five children who survive him are today mourning the loss of a kind husband and father.

The children who survive him are Mr. E. E. Stanford, of Dexter; Mrs. J. M. Bracewell, of Los Angeles, Cal.; Mrs. S. M. Thornley of Perry; Mrs. W. Parrott, of Ainsworth, Neb. and Mrs. A. C. Mosier, who lived on the home place with her father.

The three children who preceded their father were Martha J. Stanford, wife of J. J. Gaston, of Winterset, who died August 8, 1882; James O. Stanford, who died in February, 1866, and Allen L. Stanford, who died in early childhood, all of whom are buried in the beautiful cemetery in sight of this old homestead.

Of the children present at the bedside and funeral services were E. C. Stanford, Mrs. Mary Thornley, Mrs. Lena Parrott and Mrs. Alma Mosier, and of the grand children, Fred Stanford Thornley, Wm. E. Gaston and Beulah S. Gaston.

Mr. Stanford was a man of marked character, a lifelong Republican; his loyalty to his government, his adherence to temperance, morality and right a living being a part of his everyday life.

He was postmaster under President Lincoln, during the civil war.

He was bold and courageous in denouncing wrong, but kind and tender as a woman in his fellowship as a friend and neighbor

In his early years, he was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist church. A man whose death will be felt as a personal loss in the community in which he has lived; ever a true type of the exemplary, God fearing citizen.

The funeral services were connected by Rev. Scott, of Grimes, Saturday afternoon, March 9.

Winterset papers please copy.