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From: Cindy <>
Subject: RE: [OHGEAUGA] WHITE and STAFFORD (Stafford burial)
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:17:16 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
Ron:
There is information on the Staffords in 'Pioneer and General History of Geauga County, Ohio 1880. I found this information on page 200:
Joshua Stafford was born in Rhode Island in 1798; came from there to the State of New York and about 1820 was married to Lucretia Gibson. Mr. Stafford and his family came to Auburn about 1835. He first purchased a farm one mile north of Brown's corners, on the Root tract; cleared up the same, and built a large frame house. They had nine children - Ambrose, Louisa, Clinton, Almira, Harriet, Fanny, George, Ellen and Harmon. Mr. Stafford lost his wife in 1849, and some years after married again. He then sold out to his son, Clinton, and purchased a small farm on the diagonal road to Chagrin Falls, of one Mrs. Sanderson; lived there several years, and died in 1876.
Clinton, son of Joshua Stafford, came to Auburn with his father, and was married, in 1860, to Delia C. Shipard, daugher of Dr. Shipard, one of the early settlers of Bainbridge, and a very eminent physician. They have no children. He owns and resides on the farm where his father first settled, in the western part of the township, one mile north of Brown's corners. Harriet is unmarried, and resides at Auburn corners.
On Pages 218 - 219 it states that Joshua Stafford was elected a trustee of Auburn Township in 1837, 1839, 1841 and 1842.
There is quite a bit of information on the different Staffords in this book but I don't know the connections to your Joshua. I do know it is an old and prominent name in the county. I hope this helps.
Cindy Linn
-----Original Message-----
>From: Wallace Huskonen <>
>Sent: Feb 24, 2006 2:54 PM
>To:
>Subject: RE: [OHGEAUGA] WHITE and STAFFORD (Stafford burial)
>
>Dear Ron:
>
>I don't know if Joshua Stafford's death is recorded, but his burial is
>listed on the Geauga Co.'s Rootsweb website (if you don't know the URL, do a
>Google search)Cemetery database as follows (I have extracted the following
>material from his listing after my reformatting):
>
>SURNAMESTAFFORD
>First NameJoshua
>Twp./CemeteryAuburn Maple Shade
>Sec.1
>Lot168
>Born
>Died28 Jan 1876
>Age78y
>Vet.NO
>
>I believe that Joshua's father was Joshua too, and I also believe Jonathan
>was his brother. My grandmother married as her third husband Don A.
>Stafford, who was the great grandson of Jonathan.
>
>Maybe we can share information.
>
>Wally Huskonen
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [mailto:]
>Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 11:04 AM
>To:
>Subject: [OHGEAUGA] WHITE and STAFFORD
>
>I am a new subscriber and am researching the names WHITE and STAFFORD in
>Geauga County and would like to make contact with others interested in these
>names.
>
>Of interest is the marriage of SHEPHERD HALL WHITE and LOUISA ROSALIA
>STAFFORD which was on Dec 29, 1849 and the birth of their daughter CLARISSA
>LILLIAN WHITE on Dec 11, 1855.
>
>I am having difficulty finding a birth record for Clarissa and am told that
>births were not recorded before 1867.
>
>Can anyone give me some direction on how to locate the birth record for
>Clarissa.
>
>Also, LOUISA'S father was JOSHUA STAFFORD who died January 28, 1876 at
>Auburn and he is buried near Burton. Does anyone know if his death is
>recorded?
>
>Is anyone else researching the WHITEs or STAFFORDs?
>
>Thanks. Ronald White, Denver, Colorado
>
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