Brooks-Houston-Floyd County GaArchives Biographies.....Stanley, John Golaspy 1855 - living in 1913
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   JOHN GOLASPY STANLEY. A man of marked enterprise and ability, John Golaspy
Stanley is numbered among the substantial and prosperous agriculturists of
Brooks county, and is also actively associated with various important
enterprises in Quitman. A native of Georgia, he was born December 9, 1855, in
Houston county, which was likewise the birthplace of his father, William Haddock
Stanley.

   Leary Stanley, his grandfather, was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina,
November 24, 1802. As a boy he had no opportunity to attend school, but having
mastered the alphabet he learned to read, and being a diligent student acquired
a medical education without attending any educational institution. Coming to
Georgia in early manhood, he bought timber land near Perry, Houston county, and
on the farm which he reclaimed from its pristine wildness lived a number of
years. Removing in 1857 with his family to Lowndes county, he purchased a tract
of wild land lying four miles north of the present site of Quitman, in what is
now included within the boundaries of Brooks county, and in addition to clearing
and improving a farm was actively engaged in professional work, practicing
medicine throughout Brooks and adjoining counties. He was very successful both
as an agriculturist and a physician, and on the farm which he improved resided
until his death, November 6, 1865, while yet in the prime of life. He married
Charity West, who was born September 17, 1798, and died at the home of her
oldest son, William H. Stanley, April 26, 1878. Eight children were born to
them, as follows: William H., John. James B., Sarah, Mattie, Susan, Ann, and
Mary. All of the sons served in the Confederate army during the war between the
states. John, who was then teaching in Texas, enlisted in a Texas regiment and
was never again heard from. James B., a practicing lawyer, enlisted as a
soldier, went to Virginia with his regiment, which was assigned to the Army of
the Potomac, and bravely met his death on the field of battle.

   Born on the home farm in Houston county, Georgia, November 24, 1831, William
Haddock Stanley received a common school education, and soon after attaining his
majority bought land in Houston county and was there employed in tilling the
soil until 1856. Coming then to what is now Brooks county, he purchased a tract
of timber situated eight miles south of the site of Quitman, a very few acres of
his land having been previously cleared, and in the opening a set of buildings
had been erected. All of southwest Georgia was then a wilderness, with
comparatively few public highways and no railroads, Tallahassee and Newport, in
Florida, being the nearest markets and depots for supplies. With the help of
slaves he began the improvement of his land, continuing his agricultural labors
until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he offered his services to the
Confederacy.

   Returning home at the close of the conflict, he continued the improvements
previously begun on his homestead. The commodious frame house which he then
erected was burned soon after its construction, and he then put up a less
pretentious structure, in which he resided until his death, January 2, 1894. He
married Mary J. (Baskin) Haddock, who was born in Houston county, Georgia, a
daughter of William Baskin, and widow of William Haddock. She survived him,
passing away February 26, 1896, leaving four children, namely: John Golaspy,
Millard L., George W., and Mattie A. By her first marriage there were two sons,
Franklin L. and James W.

   After leaving the public schools John Golaspy Stanley entered the University
of Georgia, in Athens, and was there graduated with the class of 1879. Not
caring to adopt a profession, he embarked in the peaceful pursuit of farming.
His father being in poor health, he returned home and for ten years
superintended the work on the parental homestead. Buying then six hundred acres
of land south two miles from the old home, he spent five years in adding to its
improvements, living there until 1895. In that year Mr. Stanley bought the
interests of the remaining heirs in the old homestead, which he has since
managed with unquestionable success. He has now one thousand acres of valuable
land, a good set of farm buildings, the improvements which he has made upon the
place being of a substantial character.

   Possessing excellent business tact and judgment, Mr. Stanley is identified
with various organizations of importance. He is a director and vice-president of
the First National Bank of Quitman, and one of the directors of the Alliance
Warehouse Company. He is now president of the Hickory Head Agricultural Club, an
old and influential society; a life member of the State Agricultural Society and
a member of its executive committee; and is a trustee of the Eleventh District
Agricultural School. He also belonsrs to the jury commission. He has always been
a stanch supporter of the principles of the Democratic party and for ten years a
member of the county board of education.

   In 1891 Mr. Stanley married Frances Alberta Kinnebrew, who was born in Floyd
county, Georgia, near Rome, a daughter of Newton Kinnebrew. Mrs. Stanley's
grandfather Kinnebrew, who was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, was engaged in farming
in Elbert county, Georgia, in his early life. He subsequently spent a few years
in Chambers county, Alabama, but returned to Georgia, and spent his last days in
Oglethorpe county. Born and reared on a farm in Elbert county, Newton Kinnebrew
succeeded to the occupation which he became familiar with in boyhood. He was a
natural mechanic, and though he never learned a trade he could make anything in
the line of furniture, wagons, or fashion any of the wood-work connected with
farm machinery, being a skillful workman. He farmed for himself first in
Oglethorpe county, Georgia, later in Chambers county, Alabama, finally settling
on an estate in Floyd county, Georgia, where he resided until his death. The
maiden name of the wife of Newton Kinnebrew was Mary E. Pinson. She was born in
Oglethorpe county, a daughter of Thomas and Nancy (Patman) Pinson. Nine children
blessed their marriage, as follows: Henry T.; Nannie S.; Sarah J.; Martha A.; J.
Edwin; Olivia; Albin; Petty Alberta, now Mrs. Stanley, and J. Shannon.

   Mr. and Mrs. Stanley are the parents of four children, namely: William K.;
Baskin and Pinson, twins; and Nannie Belle, who lived but eighteen months.


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From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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