Person:James Stanley (43)

1993:

 In PAST AND PRESENT OF PIKE COUNTY, George W. Standley says his grandparents were James and Mary Jane (Ranney) Stanley. James and his wife "joined a party of five hundred colonists assembled in Baltimore who came westward to Illinois in 1823. The family settled in Pike Co. IL before 1830 in Atlas township, Pike county, near the old William Dustin farm upon which Charles Standley was reared."
 George also states Charles "removed with his parents to Pleasant Vale township, Pike County, in the year 1833--the year of the great meteoric shower. At that time James Standley purchased a farm in Pleasant Vale township.... They then sold the Hill farm and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of farm property elsewhere in the same township now known as the John Brammell farm, which he purchased in March, 1849. In 1851, James died of cholera and was buried in the Morey graveyard (along side IL Route 57 in Pleasant Vale township. He had been married three times, his second wife, Mrs. Mary J. Standley, being the grandmother of George W. Standley of this review. She died prior to her husband's death, passing away in Ohio, where her remains were interred."

Source: PAST AND PRESENT OF PIKE COUNTY, M. D. Massie, Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1906.

2008:

 More recent research and documentation shows much of the incorrect information by George W. Stanley in PAST AND PRESENT OF PIKE COUNTY published in 1904, about 50 years and 2 generations after the death of James Stanley.  Troy Stanley, James' great grandson and my uncle, had said years ago that my grandad Sam Stanley had said that James had owned property in St. Charles County near St. Louis, MO. I didn't follow up on that until several years ago when I sent a query to St. Charles Co. and received copies of 2 land transaction in 1820 and 1821 by James Stanley and his wife Mellinder. They were filed since James' wife supposedly was named Mary Jane. In 2007, a request for information on James was sent to a professional researcher in Salt Lake City. Another copy of a land transaction came made by James Stanley and his wife Millinde, this time in 1836 in Pike Co. IL, There was no other James Stanley living in Pike Co. at that time. Another query brought the 1821 St. Charles Co., MO census with James with an adult female, young girls and boys the ages the Stanley boys would have been. This explains why James R., John and Joseph claim MO as their birth place. Yet another search found the marriage of James Stanley and Malinda Ramey, 3 Dec. 1814 on a list compiled by the St. Louis Historical Society. 
 Nancy Uppinghouse, widow of John Stanley,  also states in an affidavit in Wesley Stanley's Civil War records that James was married 3 times. He had 17 children and the 2nd wife who she did not name was the mother of the 12 in my file. If James was married 3 times, Malinda was his 2nd, Sarah Glass was the 3rd and nothing has been found indicating the first unless there was a Mary Jane Ranney......
 

1. ↑ John Stanley's 1851 Pike Co. IL Probate record.
2. ↑ Pike Co. IL 1850 census.
3. ↑ PAST AND PRESENT OF PIKE COUNTY ILLIOIS
   Pg. 685.

   In 1851, James Standley died of cholera adn was buried in the Morey graveyard in Pleasant Vale township."