The History of the Peter Stafford Family
Peter Field STAFFORD, son of Richard Thompson and Margaret M. (FIELD) STAFFORD, was born 28 January 1857 at Orono, Penboscot Co, ME. He died on 31 March 1931 at Ratner, Saskatchewan, Canada, funeral service by Rev. Scharfe of Ridgedale, Sask and burial in Barron Co, WI. He had moved to WI in 1874 from Orono, ME with his parents and siblings. He was a farmer and lumberman. In 1895, the census records the family at Dovre, Barron Co, WI and in the 1902 at Cartwright, WI and later at New Auburn, WI.
He married 1stly in 1880 to Lizzie / Hannah _____ (b 1861-d 4 May 1881 WI, buried Prairie Farm, Halley, WI). In Saskatchewan, Canada he homesteaded at SW Qtr Section 21, Twp 48, Range 16 beginning August 1909. Peter and Lizzie/Hannah had two children:
- Lizzie STAFFORD b 25 April 1881 Chippewa Falls, WI - d after 1931. Lizzie Stafford was raised by her Stafford grandparents and in 1893 she was living within her uncle W H Stafford's household at census date, and at 1901 with her grandmother, Margaret M (Field) Stafford.
- Unnamed Baby STAFFORD b & d 25 April 1881).
Peter and Laura Jane had 5 children:
- Clara, born 19 April 1887 in PA and died 22 Nov 1971 in Oakland, CA. She worked at the Oakland Tribune for many years. Lived in Akron, OH in about 1942, moved to Oakland CA. She married a Mr Nickle and had 3 sons all born in Pennsylvania. She married 2ndly to Mr Ihnot and had 1 son. References include: death cert, census 1900 WI.
- Covert S. Frank, born 20 April 1889 in WI and died 8 November 1957 at Winter, Sawyer Co., WI. He married Hazel Cutsforth on 19 December 1915. No Ch. He had accompanied his father, step-mother and two younger brothers to Saskatchewan, Canada via train to Star City in August 1909, and was granted a homestead section of land NW Qtr Section 23 Twp 48 Range 16 in July 1914. He soon thereafter returned to WI and lived at Chippewa Falls / Eagle Point / Winter / Radiason WI and was employed for many years with the Omaha Railway Co. References include: Canada Lands Patent Branch dated July 1914.
- Helen, born March 1892 in WI and died before 1969. She married Fred (or Clyde) Anderson and they lived in Ohio.
- Richard Leonard, born 23 December 1893 at Dovre, Barron Co, WI and died 15 October 1971 at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, burial at Ratner, Sask Lutheran Cemetery. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen and was granted his homestead section of land NW Qtr Section 16 Twp 48 Range 16. He was a farmer and a fur trader and one of the first in their community to own a Model T car. He married Harriett Eliza (Currall) Boynton (13 April 1883 Kent England -27 January 1967 Ratner, Sask, Canada) on 21 February 1922 at Star City, Saskatchewan, Canada, ceremony by Rev W Chipping. 3 Ch. References include: RL Stafford Family Bible, Naturalization Cert., Marriage Cert., Canada Land Patent dated January 1916.
- Charles Allen, born 9 November 1895 at New Auburn, Barron, WI and died 21 December 1969 at Ratner, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was a farmer and upon the death of his father assumed that quarter of land. He married Bessie Violet Leach on 23 November 1917 at Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was the daughter of Robert Leach and Elizabeth Garner. 5 Ch. References include: WI Census 1895, Obit 1969 Nipawin Journal, Star City, Sask. family history book, marriage certificate.
Peter Field Stafford married 4thly by abt 1907 in WI to Cora ______ (b ? - d after 1931), no children. She lived in California for many years. References include: Obit notice, Family Bible, Census 1870, 1895, 1900, 1905
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Laura
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Richard
Thompson STAFFORD
Peter
and Laura Jane (Covert) STAFFORD's children
Richard
L. STAFFORD
Sons
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Laura
Jane COVERT
1886
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