Claude B. Stanaland was born in rural Swisher County to William Zachary Stanaland 1878-1947 and Nancy Elizabeth Swindle 1879-1974.

He married Bertharine Stanaland and they were the parents of Joan Stanaland.

From Tulia Herald:

A Thanksgiving Trip at Thanksgiving time took Mr. and Mrs. Claude Stanaland to spots in Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, including Mobile and Montgomery, and Louisiana. They were accompanied by his sister, Mrs. C.A. McElroy of Fort Sumner, New Mexico who is especially interested in genealogy and found plenty of family history nearly every place they went......Claude said that in 1830 his great-great-grandfather, Hugh Stanaland, moved to Troy, Ala. when Alabama was just a wilderness. He and his family settled on a piece of land about 13 miles out of Troy and the old homestead is still in the family name. Hugh Stanaland donated land for a cemetery there. ....Claude's great-grandfather, Zachary Stanaland, died while he was a prisoner of war during the Civil War. His grandfather, Samuel Lucius Stanaland, left Alabama and came to Texas when Claude's father, William Zachary Stanaland, was nine years old. Claude's father died in 1947, and the only young one on his Dad's side of the family to carry on the name is Claude's grandson, little five-month-old Brian Elliott Stanaland, son of C.E. and Karen Stanaland of Amarillo. C.E. is employed by Channel 10-TV in Amarillo......Claude and his wife and sister drove 2600 miles and had a marvelous time. Every place they went they were invited to stay with distant relatives. In Montgomery, Alabama, they stayed with Mr. and Mrs. T. Leslie Samuels, a cousin with a deep south accent and her husband, a Yankee from Chicago, and they were royally treated. They enjoyed a ride around the city to see the capitol and other sights. .....The trio closed their vacation with a four-day visit in New Orleans with Stanaland's daughter and her family, Roberta and Alvin Rose and daughter, Delia Dawn......The Rose family are planning to go to San Antonio at Christmas to see Alvin's brother, Chester Rose and family, and then come on to Tulia. The Stanalands are expecting their other daughter home for Christmas also - Joan and Lance Shackelford and children, Karl, Kerry and Amanda Kay of Greenville.------Source: The Tulia Herald, Tulia, Texas, Thursday, December 17, 1970;