Freestone County, Texas
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Biography of William Franklin Starley
    (4 Sep 1843-18 Jul 1922, buried at Fairview Cemetery in Pecos, TX.)
    
The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States
by William Biddle Atkinson - 1878 

[Page 708]

STARLEY, WILLIAM FRANKLIN,
  Mexia, Texas was born in Nacogdoches co., Texas, Sept. 4th, 1843.  Having 
received a common school education, he took his first course of medical lectures
at the med. dep't of the univ. of La., and his second at Long Island coll. hosp.,
Brooklyn, N. Y., from which he graduated in June, 1871.  He settled first in 
Fairfield, Freestone co., Texas, whence he moved,  April, 1873, to Mexia, 
Limestone co., going thence, May, 1876, to Corsicana, Navarro co., returning,
May, 1877, to Mexia.  He makes a speciality of gynaecology.  He is a member of
the Limestone co., med. soc.  In the civil war he served as a private in the
Confederate army.  He married Dec 13th, 1871.

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Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas: Containing Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families - 1889; Page: 786 

WILLIAM F. STARLEY, M. D., a physician and surgeon of Tyler, Texas, is a son of
Dr. Silas F. and Nancy (Skinner) Starley. Dr. Silas F. Starley was born in Alabama,
but at the age of twelve, in 1837, was taken by his parents to was taken by his 
parents to Nacogdoches county, Texas. He was educated at old Nacogdoches, read 
medicine, and began the practice in Cherokee county. In 1851 he moved to 
Springfield, Limestone county, and in 1866 to Fairfield, Freestone county; in 
1874 to Corsicana, Navarro county, and in 1883 to Tyler, Smith county, where 
he died December 19, 1887, in his sixty-third year. He practiced medicine for 
thirty-eight years, was well known throughout the State of Texas, was vice-presi-
dent of the Texas State Medical Association, and in 1882 was elected president 
at its annual meeting at Fort Worth. Mrs. Nancy Starley was a daughter of 
William Skinner, an old Texan, who settled in Nacogdoches county at an early day. 

  William F. Starley was born September 4, 1843, in Nacogdoches county, Texas; he 
was reared in Cherokee and Limestone counties, received an academic education, 
read medicine, and graduated from the Long Island College Hospital of New York, 
in 1871. He began the practice at Fairfield, Freestone county, moving after to 
Mexia, Limestone county, and then to Corsicana, Navarro county, and in January,
1888, to Tyler, Smith county. He has followed the practice of medicine since date 
of graduation. W. F. Starley volunteered in Company B, Tenth Texas infantry, in 
October, 1861, and in a short time was discharged on account of bad health; in 
April, 1863, however, he entered Stone's Second regiment partisan rangers, 
Major's brigade of Green's division of cavalry, and served with that command 
till February, 1865, when his regiment was dismounted and attached to Waterhouse's
brigade of Walker's division of infantry.
  The doctor was married December 13, 1871, to Louise, daughter of Joseph Karner; 
she was born in Buffalo, New York, and at the age of twelve years removed to 
Texas, joining the family of her uncle, Captain John Karner.