THE POLSON-CHENEY FAMILY

        Husband: William Kendrick "W.K." Stansberry
           Born: 29 AUG 1820 in Washington County, East Tennessee (1)
        Married: 08 JAN 1846
           Died: 30 JAN 1882 in Saybrook, McLean County, Illinois (2)
         Father: Edward Stansberry
         Mother: Polly Ann Graham
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           Wife: Sarah Jane Yazel
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Children
01          (F): Harriet Emeline Stansberry
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        Spouses: Jonathan Hyre
02          (F): Olive Jane Stansberry
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        Spouses: D. Haldeman Simmons
03          (M): Edward Stansberry
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04          (F): Cora Bell Stansberry
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        Spouses: Clinton Smith
05          (M): Milton Stansberry
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Additional Information

William Kendrick "W.K." Stansberry:

Notes:
William was thirteen when he arrived in Cheney's Grove.

W.K. was the assessor for Cheney's Grove from 1876 - 1879. He was also postmaster for Saybrook for many years. (From "The History of McLean County, Ill, Wm. Le Baron, Jr & Co, 1879; pages 541& 543)

W.K. was a good natured man who had a rather heavy voice and a heavy black moustache. He could have been called a good looking man if "he would dress himself up." (From page 412 of "The Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois" by Dr E. Duis, 1874)


Footnotes

  1. Dr E. Duis, Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois (Reprinted by Heritage Books, 1992), 410.
  2. The McLean County Genealogical Society, Gleanings from the Heart of the Cornbelt (Fall 2000, Vol 34 No 3), 113.
    From "The Daily Pantagraph": W.K. Stsbury died of dropsy of the heart.

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