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Roy J. Stafford, a substantial farmer and landowner of Delaware County, now living in Hamilton Township, is a native son of this county and has lived here all his life. Mr. Stafford was born on a farm in Delaware Township on April 4, 1881, and is a son of George A. and Sarah A. (Zehner) Stafford, the latter of whom was born in Wayne County, this state, daughter of Benjamin and Hester (Hoppas) Zehner. late George A. Stafford was born in Delaware Township, this county, in 1835, and was a son of Ralph and Jane (Black) Stafford, the latter of whom was born in Clarke County, Ohio, a daughter of Andrew and Susan (Ross) Black, who became numbered among the pioneers of Delaware County, as is set out elsewhere. Ralph Stafford was born in Giles County, Virginia, and was a son of George and Catherine (Fair) Stafford, who had come to this country from Ireland, and who in 1811 became resident of Delaware Township, this county, in 1835. He died 1876 and his widow survived until 1888. They were the parents of fi9ve children, of whom George A. Stafford was the eldest. During the days of his young manhood George A. Stafford worked as a tanner. He also for thirteen years operated a threshing rig throughout his home neighborhood; meantime carrying on extensive farming operations and in time came to be the owner of more than 800 acres of land in this county. He was one of the organizers of the Delaware County National Bank and a director of the same and had business property in Muncie, among the buildings he erected there being the former post office building on Walnut Street, now occupied by the Liberty Theatre, and the building now occupied by the Studebaker Automobile sales concern on High Street. He died on September 1, 1912, and his widow died in 1917. They were the parents of four children, all of whom are living save one son, David R., the subject of this sketch having a sister, Emma C., and a brother, Cyrus J. Stafford, Reared on the home farm in Delaware Township, Roy J. Stafford supplemented the schooling received in the Stafford school by a course in the old Muncie Normal School and for two years thereafter was engaged in photography in the Neiswanger studio at Muncie. He then returned to the home farm and after his marriage farmed the place for a year, at the end of which time he moved to a farm of his own, a place of 240 acres n Union Township, two and a half miles west of Shideler, on which he made extensive improvements and on which he carried on extensively in the live stock way. There Mr. Stafford resided until 1922, when he moved to the place on which he is now living, a "forty" on the Studebaker pike in Hamilton Township, the operations of which he oversees as well as those of his Union Township farm, he now being the owner of 280 acres of well improved farm land. In 1904, Roy J. Stafford was united in marriage to Ethel Mae Smith, who also was born in Delaware Township, daughter of J. Dent and Mary (Williamson) Smith, and to this union were born six children, Edith L., Mary L., Sarah R., George D., Howard and Albert Earl, the latter of whom died in infancy. The mother of these children died on October 29, 1921.
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Roy J. Stafford, 94, a former Muncie resident living in Florida, died Tuesday in Winterhaven, Fla. A native of Delaware County, Mr. Stafford lived in Union Township until 1969 when he retired from his farm and moved to Florida. He also worked for several years as a foreman at the Kuhner Packing Co., which is now Marhoefer's.
Survivors include three sons, Howard and Robert, both of Muncie, and George, Eaton; three daughters, Mrs. Edith Strong, DeSoto, Mrs. Mary Robbins, Toledo, Ohio, and Mrs. Sarah Arnold, Albany; 14 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in Parson Mortuary with Rev. Russell G. Siferd officiating. Burial will follow in Black Cemetery near Albany. Friends may call 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Friday or prior to the service on Saturday at the mortuary.
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1881 - 1976 (94 years)
