Liberty County Texas Archives Biographies.....Stanfield, Samuel June 1846 - 1912
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Harry Allen hwtn2002@yahoo.com November 13, 2005, 10:47 pm

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Samuel Stanfield was born in St Joseph Co., Indiana in June 1846.  His father 
was Eli Stanfield who was born in Tennessee on 1st Feb 1802 and died in Clarke 
Co., Iowa on 31st March 1876. His mother was Sarah Mikesell who was born about 
1807 in Dayton, Ohio and died in St Joseph, Missouri on 3 May 1892. Eli was a 
wagonmaker and the family moved from Indiana to Marion Co., Iowa in 1854.  
This is where Samuel received most of his education.  

Samuel served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and afterward moved with 
the family to St Joseph, Missouri.  There he worked for a railroad.  St Joseph 
was a main crossroad of the railroads going east-west, and the first line 
going north-south.  Samuel was probably working for one of these first lines 
to come into Texas from the north.  He was in Texas sometime before 1876.  On 
20th Dec 1876 he married Elizabeth Rachel Long in Harris County.  She was the 
widow of John W. Golden and had two small daughters from the marriage. By 
about 1877 Samuel and the Long family moved to Grimes County near the 
Montgomery/Walker County lines.  There, Samuel and Elizabeth had the following 
children: Ida Viola, Eli, Minerva E., and Thomas Kinley.  It is thought that 
Elizabeth died around 1885. Samuel re-located to Walker County in 1885 and in 
1890 he married Theodocia V. Hall in Montgomery County.  She was born in 
Walker County in 1874 and died in Liberty County in 1910. Samuel and 
Theodocia's living children were: Pleasant, William Wesley, Minerva (different 
from the first), James, Patrick, John, Edward, and Susie.

In 1898, Samuel acquired land on the Trinity River in what is now Romayor, 
Liberty County, Texas. He began operating a ferry across the river and a 
successful mill.  The area had been known as "River" because of the Trinity 
River.  On 2nd June 1903, Samuel was appointed first postamaster of the town 
and the name was changed to Romayor, after the owner of the original grant of 
the area. Samuel died in 1912, probably in September or October, because the 
new postmaster took over in October 1912.  After his death, his son Thomas 
Kinley Stanfield took over the operation of the ferry across the river and 
many of his very young brothers and sisters. Pictured in the photo are Thomas 
(in the back), his wife Mahala Rollins, brothers James Stanfield, John 
Stanfield, Edward Stanfield, and sons L.E. Stanfield, Samuel K. Stanfield, and 
unknown baby.

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