This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stansfield Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8439 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 07 June 1899, p.9 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Death of a Veteran Houston, Tex., 3 June – John W. Stansfield, an old and highly esteemed citizen of this city died this morning at 2:10 o’clock at his residence, No. 1014 Travis street. The deceased was 74 years of age and had lived in this city many years. He was born in Leeds, England in 1825. He came to Texas in 1849, and when the war between the states broke out enlisted in Waul’s legion. For part of the time he was clerk under General Margruder. After the war he returned to Sheffield, and for a time engaged in the manufacture of cutlery. Having become attached to this country, he returned here and for years was with J.R. Morris and C.W. Ainsworth in the hardware business. He returned here in the year 1869. His uprightness and integrity of character placed him always high in the esteem of this people. His life was an exemplary one, and he was entitled to the regard that was given to him. John William Stanfield was a confederate soldier, who served in Captain Michael’s company and Colonel Timmin’s regiment of Texas infantry. He was also a charter member of United Confederate Veterans, but was not an active member at the time of his death, but a confederate soldier and entitled to all the honors due them.