Franklin Elwood STAFFORD

1845 - 1919  (73 years)

• Name	Franklin Elwood STAFFORD
  Nickname	Frank
  Born	24 Apr 1845	Guilford Co., North Carolina
  Gender	Male
  Census	1880	Tilden, Osborne Co., Kansas
  Census	1900	Tilden, Osborne Co., Kansas
  _UID	FDB29F7E706D7D46B4A1FA39F6A048F5C7DA
  Died	30 Mar 1919	Osborne Co., Kansas
  Person ID	I68187	Branch 099 William Stafford 1784
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2015

  
  

  Father	Milton STAFFORD,   b. Abt 1821, Guilford Co., North Carolina ,   d. Bef 1870, Lawrence, Douglas Co., Kansas  (Age ~ 48 years)
  Mother	Temperance "Tempy" CAIN,   b. Abt 1820, Guilford Co., North Carolina ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	7 May 1842	Guilford Co., North Carolina
  Family ID	F23267	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lenette A.,   b. Jun 1858, New York ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Franklin W. STAFFORD,   b. Nov 1890, Kansas ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Emma D. STAFFORD,   b. Apr 1892, Kansas ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2022
  Family ID	F20207	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Frank Elwood Stafford was born April 24, 1845, in Greensboro, North Carolina. At the age of seven he moved with his parents, Milton and Tempa (Cain) Stafford, to Indiana. Prior to the outbreak of the Civil War the Stafford family moved again, this time to Kansas. In 1863 Frank went to Leavenworth and worked for a while as a teamster and then enlisted in Company B of the 16th Kansas Calvary. He was officially discharged in December 1865. After the war Stafford returned to Indiana and farmed for a while, but then returned to Kansas and on October 4, 1867, he enlisted in Battery B of the Fourth United States Artillery. He served four years with the Fourth Artillery, stationed at Forts Riley and Hays, where he was an orderly sergeant. At times he was attached to the famed Seventh Calvary and often rode patrols through what would later become Osborne County, Kansas, before being discharged at the end of his term of service on October 4, 1870. In 1870 Frank brought his mother and the rest of the family to a homestead near the mouth of Little Medicine Creek in Tilden Township, Osborne County, just west of the village of Bloomington. A respected war veteran, he was one of the three special commissioners appointed by Governor James Harvey in 1871 to organize Osborne County. In the county’s first general election the next year Stafford was elected one of the first three county commissioners. At Bloomington on November 28, 1878, he married LaNette Hart. The couple had three children, Frank, Nettie, and an infant son who died in 1886. Stafford did not serve in public office again until 1882, when he was elected Osborne County Clerk. He served three terms and then retired to his homestead. The farm was prosperous for many years and Stafford retained a wide popularity among his peers. He passed away March 30, 1919, in Osborne and was buried in the Osborne Cemetery Census: Listed as a farmer with wife. Parents born in NC. Listed as Frank Stafford, a farmer, with wife Lennette A. and children Franklin W. and Emma D.