Bio:  James J. Stanfill, Red River Parish
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LA GenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Feb 2000.

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James J. Stanfill is a planter and the popular and courteous proprietor of the
Planters' Hotel at Coushatta, La.  His birth occurred in Tomas County, Ga.,
March 5, 1850, being the younger of two children born to I. J. and Martha
(Browning) Stanfill, both of whom were native Georgians, the former born in
1823 and the latter in 1825, their deaths occurring in Thomas County, Ga., in
1866, and Leon County, Fla., in 1855 respectively.  James J. Stanfill was
taken to Florida by his parents in early childhood, and in that State he
remained until he was twenty years of age, his knowledge of the three R's
being obtained in the common schools.  He came from that State of Louisiana,
and first resided in Carroll Parish, but in 1878 became a resident of
Coushatta, which place has since been his abiding place.  By his own good
management he has become the owner of some 800 acres of fine land, but in
addition to managing this he opened a hotel in Coushatta in 1882, the building
being erected in that year, and his establishment has become a popular resort
for the traveling public, for Mr. Stanfill is courteous and obliging to his
guests, and his terms are reasonable.  In 1880 Mrs. Mary E. McCord, who was
born in Arkansas, in 1846, became his wife, and to them three children have
been born: Mattie (born in 1882), Thomas (born in 1885) and James (born in
1887), all bright and interesting little children.  Mrs. Stanfill is a
daughter of I. C. and Charity (Chipman) Ainsworth, who were born in
Mississippi in 1825, and died in 1866, the former's death occurring on October
9.  Mr. Stanfill has always been a Democrat in politics, and has served two
years as deputy sheriff of the parish, making a faithful and efficient
official.  He became a member of the Masonic fraternity at Lake Providence,
La., in 1872.

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