1930 Portsmouth, Scioto Co., OH, ED 43, page 1b 154 Grandview Ave. Claybourne Stanley age 61 (mar. 54 yrs) born in VA Parents born in VA- Blacksmith at a steel mill Cora wife age 60 born in OH Parents born in KY (mar. 53 yrs) ----- Original Message ----- From: <Alohawahine75@aol.com> To: <VARUSSEL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:33 PM Subject: [VARUSSEL] Looking for any information as to his family history ~ Clabe Stanley > > Hello list, > > This obituary was probably from a newspaper in Portsmouth, Ohio, Clabe > Stanley died May 20, 1938. The obituary and death certificate information > was given > by his son Manley Warren Stanley. Through census records I have been > trying to > locate the parents of Clabe and I am coming up with nothing. I am not sure > if > his proper name was Henry Clabe Stanley, Henry Claiburn Stanley......? His > step-granddaughter, Ethel (Keen) Boggs provided the name variation. > > The first that he shows up in census records that I can find is: > 1900 Boyd County, Kentucky (35 years old) > 1910 Greenup County, Kentucky > 1920 Wayne Township, Scioto County, Ohio > > Would like to find out where he spent the first 34 years of his life and > especially anything on his parentage? > > Clabe married Rose E. (Handley) Strother on September 24, 1892, probably > in > Kentucky or Ohio? Rose was the daughter of Ewell and Mary E. Handley. > > Clabe's second marriage was to Cora Powell, on March 2, 1922. The marriage > license was issued in Greenup County, Kentucky. The records states that > Clabe's > parents were James Stanley and Sally Stengill (with Sally's surname open > to > intrepretation) perhaps even Sturgill? > > Clabe's brother Flenn, perhaps that was a typo and it should be Flem? > > Does anyone know who Clabe belongs to? I have a feeling Clabe did not have > any communications or hardly at all with his family in Virginia. My > father-in-law states he never met anyone from the Stanley side of his > family growing up. > > Please help if you can. Just thought I would post to the surrounding > counties. > > Clabe Stanley, 1726 Eighth Street, died today at 4:40 a.m. at the home of > his > son, Manley Stanley. Mr. Stanley had been ill two years with heart > trouble. > He suffered his last attack May 13 and failed to rally. > > Mr. Stanley had lived in Portsmouth the last 30 years and had been a > blacksmith for the N. & W. and Wheeling Steel Corp. He was born May 15, > 1865, in Scott > County, Virginia. He was married 45 years ago to Rose Strothers, who died > in > 1919. In 1923, Mr. Stanley was united in marriage to Cora Powell, who also > preceded him in death in August, 1935. > > Surviving are four children and three stepchildren, Mrs. Lillian (Stanley) > Newman, 1716 High Street, Manley Stanley, 1726 Eighth, Clarence Stanley of > Cleveland, Allen Stanley of Washington, D. C., Ewell Strothers of Mound > Street, > Robert Strothers of Wheelersburg, and Mrs. Bertha Keene of Maloneton. One > brother, Flenn Stanley of Buffalo Shoals, W. Va., and two grandchildren, > Clinton > Stanley and Joan Newman, also survive. > > Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. at Windel-Howland funeral > home > with Rev. William Mosley in charge. Burial will be in old Wheelersburg > cemetery. The body will remain at the funeral home. > > Thank you, Deborah Brownfield Stanley > > > > ==== VARUSSEL Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to the list send an email from the email address you wish > to have subscribed to: VARUSSEL-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains the > word "subscribe" (without quotes) in the body of the message and nothing > else. To subscribe in the digest mode rather then the list mode send > this message to VARUSSEL-D-request@rootsweb.com > >