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