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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

MAJOR T. E. STANLEY.
    Major T. E. Stanley, whose life record includes an important military
chapter as well as the record of prominent connection with the bar and with the
banking interests of Augusta, died on the 16th of June, 1904, while attending
the Confederate reunion at Nashville, Tennessee. He was born in Lawrence county,
Alabama, October 15, 1844, and was therefore sixty years of age at the time of
his demise. His parents were Joe H. and Jane (Hill) Stanley, both natives of
Alabama, where the father followed agricultural pursuits.

    The son was educated in the public schools of his native county until he
matriculated in the La Grange Military Academy in January, 1860. He was assigned
to Company A of the Cadet Corps and, although in the fourth class, his
conscientious and capable performance of his duties earned for him a
corporalship within his first year. Following the outbreak of hostilities
between the north and the south he enlisted as a private in Company B, Tenth
Alabama Infantry, on the 10th of June, 1861, and by October of that year had won
promotion to the rank of first sergeant. He afterward became a lieutenant of
Company G in the same regiment and thus served from 1863 until the close of the
war.

    During the days of peace Major Stanley devoted his attention largely to the
practice of law, becoming a member of the bar at Augusta, Arkansas. He soon
gained a large clientage of an important character and proved his capability to
successfully handle intricate and involved legal problems. He likewise served as
probate judge of Woodruff county and was called to other positions of public
honor and trust. He became a member of the Arkansas state legislature, was made
speaker of the house and was defeated by only eight votes in the convention for
the democratic nomination for governor. Throughout his life he remained an
active factor in political circles and one whose opinions carried great weight
in the councils of the party. Aside from devoting his attention to the practice
of law he became active in the establishment of a banking institution known as
the Bank of Augusta & Trust Company and his successful management of this and
various other enterprises brought to him a handsome fortune. He found his
greatest happiness in his success through the fact that it enabled him to
provide liberally for his family.

    It was on the 1st of May, 1873, that Major Stanley was married to Miss Laura
McCurdy, a native of St. Francis county, Arkansas, and a daughter of I. M. and
Sarah Elizabeth (Quiett) McCurdy, the former a native of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and the latter of North Carolina. They became pioneer settlers of
St. Francis county, Arkansas, where Mr. McCurdy took up his abode about 1850. He
entered land from the government and there engaged in farming, while at the same
time he carried on merchandising in connection with his brother at Mount Vernon,
Arkansas. He likewise served as sheriff of St. Francis county and in 1855 he
removed to Woodruff county, where he again carried on mercantile pursuits. He
had charge of the commercial business on the White river before and during the
Civil war. He held membership with the Masonic lodge of Augusta and both he and
his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. His political
allegiance was always given to the democratic party and he continued active in
its support until his death, which occurred when he was seventy years of age,
his wife surviving to the age of seventy-five years. In their family were two
children, Mrs. Laura Stanley and Junius McCurdy, both living in Augusta. By her
marriage Mrs. Stanley became the mother of seven children: Baxter, deceased;
McCurdy; Mrs. J. R. Vinson; Hugh, deceased; Thomas, who is married and lives in
Augusta, where he is connected with the Augusta Mercantile Company; Joe H„ who
is the first vice president of the Southern Trust Company of Little Rock,
Arkansas; and one who died in infancy.

    The family circle was again broken by the hand of death when on the 16th of
June, 1904, Major Stanley suddenly died while attending the Confederate reunion
in Nashville, Tennessee. There were many friends who mourned his loss as well as
his immediate family, for he had endeared himself to all with whom he came into
contact by reason not only of his business capability and the success he
achieved but also by reason of the many admirable traits of character which he
manifested. He was thoroughly reliable and progressive in business, was kindly
and generous in spirit and genial in disposition and thus his strongly marked
traits won for him the friendly regard of all.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922



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