Richmond-Montgomery-Rowan County NcArchives Obituaries.....Stanback Jr, Presley Nelms  April 12, 1923
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I deem it a privilege to have been asked to pay this brief tribute 
to the Memory of Mr. Presley Stanback, whose well high sudden death, 
on April 12, 1923, at his home in Byhalia, Miss., was a very great 
shock an inexpressible grief to his family and friends, and brought 
to my mind the familiar ecclesiastical warning. "In the midst of life 
we are in death; of whom may we seek for succor but of Thee, O Lord." 

Born July 9th, 1849, at the ancestral home in Richmond County, North 
Carolina, he was the son of the late Pressley Nelms Stanback and his 
wife Mrs. Elizabeth Little Stanback. They died in 1891, after long 
useful lives, during which they gave their children every possible 
advantage, and endeavored to implant in their hearts the many cardinal 
Christian virtues that combined to make patriotic useful citizens.
 
Our deceased friend was educated largely at Trinity College, and after 
emigrating to Mississippi when quite a young man, followed agriculture 
pursuits for a while, then took a full course in law at the University 
of Mississippi, which is located in Oxford. He was successful in this 
profession, and while his home town was not large, he was frequently 
called to other places in consultation, and I am told he was considered 
capable, just and upright, as a citizen of his town and commonwealth, 
and in the defense of many who begged for mercy at the hands of the 
courts, sought adjudication of claims and counter claims.

On April 15th, 1874, Mr. Stanback was very happily married to Miss 
Ann Winfred Davis, of Holly Springs, Miss. Had he been spared just a 
trifle over a year longer, they could have gathered their children and 
grandchildren around them for a celebration of their Golden wedding 
anniversary, and looked back with loving interest over the many happy 
years spent together, as their devotion to each other is is said to 
have been very beautiful, and their union was blesses with 11 children 

Left to mourn their loss, but to rejoice in the blessed life of Immortality
beyond the grave, are the devoted wife, two sons, E. D. Stanback of Fort 
Gibson, Oklahoma, and W. P. Stanback of Byhalia, Mrs. A. B. Clark of La 
Grange, GA., Miss Maude L. Stanback, who holds a responsible government 
position in Washington D.C., and Mrs. W. C. Hardison, who is much beloved 
in our town.  To them and to an only sister, Mrs. Judith S. Dockery of 
Wadesboro, and two brothers, Messrs. J. F. Stanback of Raleigh and 
Charles Stanback of Mt. Gilead, the deepest sympathy is extended, also 
the hope that they may realize that our trials and sorrows are but 
stepping-stones in the divine economy of God's plan, and that the light 
of His love shall, in time to come, dispel all darkness and bring us 
into the morning of eternal peace.

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