Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/158 Surname: STANLEY, HAYNES, ANDERSON, RUNNER, BIBBEE, HANSHAW, PARSONS, SHULER, VERNON ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Sandy Valley". Stanley Family Who John Stanley was, and when or whence he came to Sandy, I have been unable to ascertain, only that he was living at a cabin on the high plateau in the bend of the creek, across from the John Haynes place, in 1822, when his daughter, Nancy, was married to Joseph Anderson, of Big Bend, Ohio. Who his wife was is equally in darkness, with his ancestry and date of his birth and death. Probably he was of the same family as David Stanley, the Ravenswood pioneer. His children were: James (Jim) Stanley, married a Runner, and lived on the flats below Mud Run, in the forties. William (Bill) Stanley married a Bibbee, died at Silverton. Henry Stanley died unmarried. Jonathan Stanley married first a Hanshaw, and second, Mazella Parsons, a daughter of George Parsons, on Trace Fork. They never owned land, but lived in different places on Sandy. The Parsons record gives his name as Noah Stanley. Elias Stanley married a Runner (probably these girls were daughters of Elijah Runner). Noah Stanley, name only given. Levi Stanley went off and never returned. Nancy Stanley married Joe Anderson, and lived one and a half miles below her father's home, at the Haynes farm. Besides these names, which were furnished by the late Joseph Anderson, Chris Shuler mentions: Tom Stanley who died at Silverton. A daughter married "Zeke" Vernon. Whether these were children of John Stanley, or of one of his sons, I cannot say. A farm on the bend of the creek below Mike Boso's mill was at an early day known as "The Old Stanley Farm", from John Stanley having once lived there.