THE POLSON-CHENEY FAMILY

        Husband: Ezekiel Stansbury
           Born: 1794 in Frederick Co Virginia (1)
        Married: 22 FEB 1816 in Wahington County, Tennessee (7)
           Died: 15 APR 1857 in Saybrook, McLean Co, Illinois (2)
         Buried: in Old Township Cemetery, Saybrook, McLean County, Illinois (3)
         Father: Ezekiel Stanborough
         Mother: Esther Neil
        Spouses: 
      Residence: Chucky, Greene Co TN until 1833 (4)
           Wife: Sarah M. Graham
           Born: 15 DEC 1795
           Died: 31 AUG 1843 in Cheney's Grove Cemetery, Saybrook, Illinois (5)
         Father: 
         Mother: 
        Spouses:
Children
01          (F): Louisa Ann Stansbury
           Born: 12 FEB 1817 in Greene County, Tennessee (6)
           Died: 19 MAY 1898 in Illinois
        Spouses: Ephraim Scudder Myers

Additional Information

Ezekiel Stansbury:

Notes:
Ezekiel served in the War of 1812 in the Tennessee Militia. He was a private and then a Captain in Cook's Company. Ezekiel's unit fought under Andrew Jackson at the Battle of Horeshoe Bend in east-central Alabama on 27 March 1814. This Battle ended the power of the Creek Indians under Chief Tecumseh. The Creeks had allied themselves with Britain for the War. (From "Ten Generations of Myers in America" by George Alford.)

Footnotes

  1. Brøderbund WFT Vol. 3, Ed. 1, Tree #5692, Date of Import: Apr 12, 1997.
  2. Ibid.
  3. George Alford, Ten Generations of Myers in America (1996: Family History Publishers, 845 S. Main St, Bountiful, Utah 84040), 512.
  4. Brøderbund WFT Vol. 3, Ed. 1, Tree #5692, Date of Import: Apr 12, 1997.
  5. George Alford, Ten Generations of Myers in America (1996: Family History Publishers, 845 S. Main St, Bountiful, Utah 84040), 512.
  6. Ibid., 26 & 512.
  7. Ibid., 512.

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