Wade & Webb Family History

George Washington Stanford1820–?

Tennessee · Lauderdale

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Sources
  4. Notes

Birth

  1. 1820 Tennessee

Marriages

  1. Date unknown Caroline McKinney

Death and burial

  1. Date unknown Death: place not recorded

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse
Caroline McKinney 1820–1897

Line of descent Webb line

  1. George Washington Stanford
  2. Husband of Caroline McKinney
  3. Eli Harris McKinney Sr.
  4. Emma Louise McKinney, daughter
  5. Lila Walden, daughter
  6. Hilda Webb, daughter
  7. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Husband of 2nd great-grandaunt of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

George Washington Stanford was born in Tennessee in 1820, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no source for the year and does not name his parents.1 The only records attached to him are two copies of one entry in the federal census of 1860, which lists G. W. Stanford as the head of a household in District 1 of Lauderdale County, Alabama.2 The tree records him as the husband of Caroline McKinney (1820–1897), a daughter of Eli McKinney, but gives no date or place of marriage and no children of the couple, and the census index entry does not name a wife.3 That link is doubtful: Caroline McKinney married John Hicks in Chambers County in 1838 and was enumerated as his wife in Alabama in every census from 1850 to 1880, in 1860 in Randolph County.4 Inference The connection probably arose from confusion with another Caroline, perhaps the mother of the three Stamford children whom the tree also attaches to Caroline McKinney; nothing in the records in hand ties G. W. Stanford to the McKinney family.5 The tree records that he is deceased but gives no date or place of death.6

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to George Washington Stanford.

  1. 1860G W Stanford, "United States, Census, 1860"
  2. 1860G W Stanford, "United States, Census, 1860"

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KN73-7GR: birth 1820, Tennessee, no source attached; no parents in the tree back to the text
  2. "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, G W Stanford, 1860. Record: G W Stanford, 1860 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, G W Stanford, 1860. Record: G W Stanford, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KN73-7GR: residence 1860, District 1, Lauderdale, Alabama back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KN73-7GR: spouse Caroline McKinney (LZ1M-QQL), no marriage event, no children "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, G W Stanford, 1860. Record: G W Stanford, 1860 back to the text
  4. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, John Hicks and Caroline Mc Kenny, 25 Aug 1838. Record: John Hicks and Caroline Mc Kenny, 25 Aug 1838 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Caroline Hicks in entry for John Hicks, 1860. Record: Caroline Hicks in entry for John Hicks, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LCD9-3SV (their page): residence 1860, Randolph, Alabama back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZ1M-QQL (their page): children Elizabeth J. Stamford (1844), Sarah C Stamford (1848), William T Stamford (1852), with no named father back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KN73-7GR: death: deceased, no date or place back to the text