STANSBERRY  BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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STANSBERRY, W. A.
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 700
residence: Big Creek Twp

W. A. Stansberry, a Henry County pioneer and prominent farmer and stockman of 
Big Creek township, is a native of Ohio. He was born in Fairfield County, in 1852, 
a son of W. H. and Rachel (Elsborn) Stansberry, natives of Ohio. They came to 
Missouri in 1870 and settled in Big Creek township, Henry County. Later they 
removed to St. Clair County, where they lived for a time, but returned to Henry 
County and both died here, and their remains are interred in the Carpenter 
Cemetery in Johnson County. They were the parents of the following children: 
Mrs. Samantha Jane Crist, now deceased; Mrs. Mary Showalter, Carroll, Ohio; Mrs. 
Kate Lane, Clinton, Missouri; John, Old Chilhowee, Missouri; W. A., the subject of 
this sketch; George, died in Montana; Charles, resides at Tulsa, Oklahoma; Mrs. 
Rachel Sherman, died at Pittsburg, Kansas; Mrs. Emma Corsen, died in Johnson 
County, Missouri; Noah, lives in Johnson County, Missouri; J. J., Miami, Oklahoma; 
Mrs. Frank Murphy, Honey Creek township, and Mrs. Millie Heath, Taberville, 
Missouri. W. A. Stansberry was reared and educated in Ohio and was about 
eighteen years of age when he came to Henry County with his parents in 1870. 
After coming here he worked some by the month, but soon engaged in farming in 
Big Creek township on rented land. Later he bought a farm and now owns one 
hundred twenty acres, two and one-half miles southeast of Blairstown. His place 
is well improved with a good farm residence and other suitable farm buildings. 
He is engaged in general farming and stock raising, having been especially 
successful raising Duroc Jersey hogs in recent years. Mr. Stansberry was married 
in 1876 to Miss Sarah E. Webster, daughter of James H. and Mary Jane (Carpenter) 
Webster of Big Creek township. The father died in Arkansas in 1903, and the 
mother died in Henry County during the Civil War, having contracted pneumonia 
from exposure when driven from home by "Jayhawkers." 'Mrs. Stansberry was one 
of four children born to her parents, the others being: Pleasant Webster, who 
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and now resides at 
Bozeman, Montana; Mrs. Mary Haney, Chickalah, Arkansas, and Mrs. Hester 
Anderson, now deceased. After the death of the mother of these children, the 
father married again to Mary Lotspiech, and to this second marriage were born 
the following children: Charles, lives in Arkansas; Mrs. Dora Hanes, deceased; 
Walter, lives in Oklahoma; Oscar, Arkansas; Florence, Arkansas, and Maude, 
deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Stansberry have been born four children, as follows: 
Blanche, died at the age of three years; Hattie, married Sterling S. Patterson, 
who is now deceased, having left one child, Ora Ellen, who resides with Mr. and 
Mrs. Stansberry; John W., at home; Mary J., married Cecil Gray, Big Creek 
township. Mr. Stansberry has seen much of the history of Henry County in the 
making, as it were. He recalls when the town of Norris was known as Norris Fork 
and when the post office was established there on the star mail route from 
Holden, and they received mail three times each week. He recalls the first store 
building there which was erected by Moore & Wright. This was about 1873, and 
this firm carried on the mercantile business there for a number of years. Mr. 
Stansberry is one of the substantial pioneer citizens of Henry County and the 
Stansberry family are prominent in the community.

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