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have died in “the year ending June 1860.” In the 1850 Putnam County census, he was living next door to his nephew, Nehemiah Stanford and family, and not far from his brother, Leven Stanford. It appears Joseph never married or was widowed / divorced early on, and we can find no evidence of Mm having any children. Records show he was apparently at one time the Postmaster at Stanford’s Crossroads, GA. This community was later called Stanfordville, a small community near Eatonton in Putnam County.
In Warren County, there was a Joseph Stanford that made a Will dated March 26, 1827, which names his wife as Margaret Stanford, and children, Christopher and Isaiah Stanford with land on Sweetwater Creek in Warren County. People buying items from his estate were Jonathan, Jesse, Robert, Isaiah, Ruben, and William Stanford. These are not close members of our Joshua Stanford’s family, and that family made their home on Sweetwater Creek in another part of Warren County, now the south-west part of McDuffie County.
7.	Mary Stanford - she was bom around 1787 in Maryland and died in 1834 in Warren County, GA. She married Henry Wilson on January 15, 1807, in Warren County. Henry died in 1851 in Muscogee County, GA. Their children were: Laura, Nellie, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, James,
Malinda, Frances, and Amelia Wilson. Some of these children later moved to LA.
8.	Sarah Stanford - bom in 1790 and died in 1832 as listed on her headstone in the Ansley Family cemetery in McDuffie County, GA. She married on January 16, 1816, in Warren County to Jesse M. Ansley and had 7 children by him: Felix M., Hugh T., Rayford, Mary E., Joshua T., James A., and Josephine C. Ansley. Following Sarah’s death, Jesse married Rebecca Hunt on December 24, 1834, in Habersham County, GA.
9.	Ellender “Nelly” Stanford - bom in or around 1790 in Maryland, as found in the 1850 Jasper County, GA census. Joshua’s Will names this daughter as “Ellender Lazenby,” and he also gives to “my granddaughter, Harriet Dashiel, one cow and calf’ indicating one of his daughters married a Dashiel. In the Warren County Court records, we find William Dashiel marrying Nelly Stanford in December of 1805. Then on September 30, 1813, we find “Eleanor Deshield” marrying John Lazenby. With this, we conclude William Dashiell died before 1813, and Harriet Dashiell (bom August 4,1810) was a product of that union. Harriet later married Nathaniel D. Stanford on December 22, 1827. In the 1850 census of Jasper County, GA, we find “John Lazenberry,” age 60, and “Elender Lazenberry,” age 60 (1790), bom in Maryland. In their home was Mary age 31, Jefferson 30, Martha 26, William 20, and Elizabeth Lazenberry, age 18. Other researchers list their children as Emeline, Joseph, Marcus, Robert, Mary, Jefferson, Martha, Thomas J., William, and Elizabeth Lazenby.
Joshua Stanford was an active participant in the American Revolution. This fact is brought out in several applications by his descendants to join the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). The most cited case is by Miss Maudie Virginia Coffee,
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