This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sanford, Miller, Stone, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4FFBAIB/1004 Message Board Post: Source: Biographical Memoirs of Lenawee Co., 1909 Wardel W. Sanford, for many years a prosperous and highly esteemed agriculturist of Woodstock, is a native of that township, born Jan 7, 1837, on the old Sanford homestead. His father, Ezra Sanford, was born in Wales, Erie county, New York, and migrated to the Wolverine State in the year 1832, settling on sixty acres of land in the township of Woodstock, and this a few years later he exchanged for another tract of 160 acres. He subsequently sold forty acres of this, and upon the remaining 120 he continued to make his home for many years. He was ever an industrious thrifty and successful farmer, and politically he was active in Democratic circles, though never aspiring to public office. His wife, Anna (Miller) Sanford, was also a native of the Empire State. Wardel W. Sanford, of this review, acquired his educational training in the district schools of Woodstock, and then worked upon his father's and neighboring farms until he had passed the twenty-second anniversary of h! is birth, when he purchased eighty acres of land, which, with the 220 acres subsequently acquired, constitutes the acreage of the farm upon which he today resides. Like his honored sire, he also is affiliated with the Democratic party and he holds liberal views concerning religious matters. In March, 1861, he was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Stone, daughter of Francis and Amelia Stone, both deceased, who were for many years residents of Germany and who immigrated in Michigan in an early day. To this happy union have been born seven children: Edith, Mary Minerva, William, George W., Lewis, Lena, and Theodore. Born in the old frontier days, when the numerous conveniences of modern life were entirely unknown to civilization, in a region then little more than a wilderness waste. Mr. Sanford, throughout his long and useful life has been a witness to the marvelous growth and progress of this section of the country; and though he experience many of the bitter trials and ! privations of those pioneer days he is today at the ripe age of seventy-two years, hale and hearty, and it is to be sincerely hoped that he may be spared to his family and the community in which he resides for many years to come.