Georgia Belle Stanford was born on 29 November 1873, Cedar Run, Fauquier County, Virginia to John Coffey Stanford & Isabella (Lomax) Stanford. She died at 9:00 a.m. on May 4, 1913 (not quite nine months after Clyde was born on August 23, 1912), at the age of 39y, 5m, 5d (38y, 7m on death certificate) in Merrifield (not on death certificate), Falls Church District, Fairfax County, Virginia of meningitis and lagrapphe. Secondary contributing factor was exhaustion.
There is a grave marker for her in the Oakwood Cemetery, Falls Church, Falls Church City, Virginia with her namesake daughter. They ran out of room on the gravestone to say that Georgia Belle Bloxton Hunter is the DAUGHTER OF CONWAY P. BLOXTON... "AND GEORGIA BELLE STANFORD BLOXTON", so that latter statement is on a smaller marker just below her daughter/namesake's larger gravestone.
She was buried on May 6, 1913. According to her death certificate, she was buried in Calverton, Fauquier, Virginia--her spinster sister, Hattie Stanford, was also buried there in 1941 AND her residence was Elkmount (AKA Elk Run) Family Farm (said to have been the oldest dairy farm in VA, but this is unconfirmed) in Calverton (1940 Census directions: Rt 607 (Shenandoah Path) between Route 806 (Elk Run Road) & intersection with CR 616 (Bristersburg Road), Cedar Run)--Eustace Farm is also in this area. It has been confirmed by family who have visited it that she and her sister, Hattie, are buried in a family cemetery on the Elkmount Family Farm property. Her grave is marked with an unmarked fieldstone next to a stone wall.
I was told that Belle taught piano.
Georgia Belle and Conway had five children:
Conway Russell Bloxton
Alexander Moncure Bloxton
Georgia "Belle" Bloxton
Hattie Estelle Bloxton
(named for "Georgie's" sister,
Hattie Stanford)
Clyde Strother Bloxton
Georgia Belle Stanford and Conway Peyton Bloxton were married on 5 September 1894 in Fauquier County, Virginia. Conway Peyton Bloxton was born on 2 December 1869 in Newport News, Warwick, Virginia. He died on 28 March 1952 at the age of 82 in Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, when he refused to have his leg removed to save his life from infection. He was buried in Newport News, Warwick, Virginia. Conway was the son of Alexander Bloxton and Ella Henry Conway.
Georgia Belle Stanford's father, John Coffey Stanford, was born about 1839 in Georgia (My DNA Report has him as 1845-1908) (his father b. in Maryland; his mother b. in Virginia). Several researchers assign 22 Jul 1908 as the date of John's death in Ruckersville, Green, Virginia. A John Stanford from Meriwether County, Georgia served in Company F, 55th Georgia Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and a John C. Stanford served in Company C., 7th Georgia Volunteer Infantry raised in Paulding County. Which, if either, of these is our John is unknown, but both of these units ended the War in Virginia with Lee.
In 1870, Isabella Lomax Stanford was living with her younger brother Francis "Frank" in the Upperville district of Fauquier with two of her children, Forrest Marion (3) & Hattie (2-1/2). Her husband cannot be found--may have been away looking for work or absent on business.
Based on an 1880 census of Fauquier County, Virginia, John's age and place of birth, and the common use of certain names, a somewhat tenuous case can be made that our John is the John C. Stanford who settled in Fauquier County, Virginia after the Civil War. John's middle name may have been "Coffey" as stated by a number of researchers, but the basis for this is yet unknown.
In 1880, the family was found living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia and the record included John Stanford (35, farmer), Isabella (35), Forrest M. (13), Hattie L. (10), Georgia (6), and John T. (3). In this record, John indicated that his father was born in Maryland, which fits for Joshua Tallie Stanford (although Susan, John's mother, was born in Georgia, not Virginia as indicated in the census). The ages for both John and Isabella in this record are incorrect...they would both have been about 41.
The 1900 census finds Isabella living with her son John Thomas Stanford and lists her as a widow for convention's sake, but was probably preferred by her instead of "divorced".
John Coffey Stanford and Isabella "Belle" Lomax were married September 1863 in Virginia. Isabella "Belle" Lomax was born in October 1839 (or 1836) in Fauquier, Virginia. She died on 2 February 1909 at the age of 69 in Calverton, Fauquier, Virginia.
He married (2) Sue M. Irving on February 20, 1901, in Cumberland County, Virginia.
Pat Sullivan posted in his blog that:
John Coffey Stanford, an itinerant sewing machine repairer, was still legally married to Isabella, his wife of thirty-three years, whom he abandoned in Fauquier County in the early 1890s, when he got into an altercation with Isaac Jones (60) over the affections of Phenie Frances Tapp in March 1896 (Phenie didn't know her marriage to J.C. Stanford on January 19, 1896 in Washington, D.C. was to a bigamist.) A month after Stanford's showdown with Jones, John and Isabella mutually sued each for divorce on the basis of desertion in 1896, during which time she managed her own affairs and paid her own bills, and he made the home of his witnesses, George W. (19) & Frank B. (17) Heflin (2-3 miles away near Midland), his home. A divorce decree was granted on April 25, 1896 to Isabella Stanford. Conway Peyton Bloxton (26) and her nephew, Spurgeon M. Lomax (35), who sold John & Isabella the farm adjoining his near Elk Run, were both witnesses for Isabella. Their ante bellum mansion farm house, "Elk Mount" (aka "Elkmont") was built by Isabella's grandfather, John Lomax.
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE (Alexandria VA), Thursday, March 26, 1896 -
A ROW IN ORANGE
Isaac Jones, of Spotsylvania, VA, and John C. Stanford, of Fauquier, had an altercation resulting in a desperate fight at the house of Mr. Oscar Almond near Locust Grove in Orange County on Sunday afternoon in which Jones received a pistol ball in his left arm and Stanford's head and face were badly hacked and cut with a grubbing hoe. Both are married men--Jone's family living near the Wilderness Store, and Stanford's at Elk Run in Fauquier. The row was on account of one Phoene Tapp, living near Parker's in Spotsylvania, a rustic nymph du pave, whose charms seem to have enthralled both of them. She and Jones, it seems, have been friends for the past four or five years, all others being ousted in his favor, until Stanford, an itinerant sewing machine repairer, put in an appearance last fall. He must have made a complete conquest of the woman, for she shortly abandoned Jones to follow her new lover. Jones' rage at being left in the lurch is said to have been terrible. He swore vengeance on both of them and promised to carry it out should they come in his way. Stanford and the woman went to Washington, where they claimed to have been married, and came to Orange Sunday, they say, to attend to some business matters that S. had left unsettled. The woman stopped at Mr. Almond's, while the man went to the house of Constable J. L. Morris. While he was absent, Jones put in his appearance, and when Stanford returned to Almond's, they met and the row occurred. Jones says that after some words, Stanford started to draw his pistol on him, and that he used the hoe in self-defense. Stanford's story is that, as he approached the house of Almond, Jones came out and, picking up the hoe, cursed and assaulted him. The woman who got the men apart confirms what Stanford says. Constable Morris, who left home on his way to Orange Courthouse at the same time Stanford started for Almond's, heard the pistol shots and screams of women. He started in the direction of the sound and met Stanford in an exhausted condition and smeared with blood. He told the constable what had occurred and asked to be taken to some place where his wounds could be attended to. Mr. Morris did this, then went to the scene of the affray. He found Jones and the woman there. Jones gave him his version of the affair as related above and said that he intended to follow and kill Stanford. The woman said, but for her, he would have overtaken his victim before the constable met him and would have surely killed him. Mr. Morris said he considered Jones' wound very slight, but he thought Stanford was in a bad way. The ball struck Jones' left hand, just breaking the skin and entering the fleshy part of the arm near the elbow. The wounded man wanted the constable to cut the bail out in order to save him a doctor's bill. Jones returned home Sunday night to have his wound attended to, and Stanford and his alleged wife came to Spotsylvania to the home of the woman's mother Monday morning. Constable Morris reported the matter to the Orange authorities Monday, and the proper steps were taken to have the parties brought to justice. The people of the vicinity are very indignant at the occurrence, and there seems to be a strong sentiment in favor of dealing severely with the lawbreakers. --Fredericksburg Star
3rd Great-Grandfather Joshua Talley Stanford (1801-1881) & Susan Jones Stanford (1805-1853) are on my DNA Report. My DNA 4th Great-Grandfather Levin Stanford (1784-1850) & Ellender G. (McGee) Stanford (1786-1857) and 4th Great-Grandfather Abraham Parham Jones (1752-1831) (spouse unknown).
Isabella "Belle" Lomax Stanford was the daughter of Thomas Martin Lomax, Sr. (b. 1805 (or abt 1802), born and died in Fauquier County, Virginia - died 27 July 1858) and Celia "Jane" Russell (b. 1810 (or abt 1805), born and died in Fauquier County - died 1850 (or between 1844 and 1850), and had five siblings. 3rd Great-Grandfather Thomas Martin Lomax (1805-1858) & Celia Jane (Russell) Lomax (1810-1850) are on my DNA Report. On the 1840 Census, Thomas M. Lomax, who owned slaves, was residing in Hamilton, Fauquier County, VA. Thomas was a teacher at nearby Elk Run School, farmer and beekeeper. He served from Virginia in the Fourth Cavalry of the Confederate Army during the Civil War, age 26 in 1862.
Thomas was the son of:
John and Susan Lomax. “John Lomax came to Fauquier from Charles County, [Maryland]. John built several “mansion-type” homes in the late 1700s in Fauquier. They were all within [two] miles of Elk Run. They were called “Elkmont”, “Locust Level” aka “Verdant Lawn”, and the “Martha Kane” house.”
Celia "Jane" Russell Lomax was the daughter of:
Marcus Russell and Sarah Green of Fauquier.
“The Lomax home is still standing today and is [in] good condition. The original building has been encased by additions and modernized. The Historic Landmarks Commission wrote up ... the home in the 1950s.”
Thomas & Jane Lomax were married in 1830 and had six children (all of whom were born and died in Fauquier County, VA):
1. Edward Lomax was born 1834 and died the Winter of 1886-1887. On March 10, 1861 at "Jumping Hollow" Edward was enlisted for three years in Company A, Stafford Rangers, 9th Virginia Cavalry by Captain Thomas Conway Waller to serve his home state. Private Edward Lomax was captured in Fauquier County on December 13, 1863 and sent to the "Old Capitol Prison" in Washington, D.C. From there he was transported to the infamous Point Lookout Prison in St. Mary's County, Maryland until he was exchanged on February 24, 1865. That he survived imprisonment was nothing short of miraculous. Out of 52,000 prisoners, over 14,000 died while incarcerated in this prisoner of war camp.
In 1880, his two sisters, Eliza Jane Cowne and Virginia Botts (widow), along with Virginia's two young daughters, Lizzie & Helen, were living on a farm in Fauquier County with Edward. Edward had purchased his father's beekeeper supplies, and in January 1887, John C. Stanford purchased Edward's bee hives from his estate.
2. Isabella "Belle" Lomax (John Coffey) Stanford 1836 - February 2, 1909. Will of Feb 13, 1909: She left the bulk of her estate to her unmarried daughter, Hattie L. Stanford, who had probably cared for her personal needs, and to her youngest son, John T. Stanford, who had apparently managed her farm. John T.'s son, Shirley M., was given 1/4 of her cattle. Isabella left small sums of money to her eldest son, Marion Forrest Stanford and daughter, Georgia B. Stanford Bloxton.
3. Elizabeth “Eliza” Jane Lomax was born 1838/1840 - died after 1900, and married Robert Latham Cowne, son of Thomas W. Cowne and Susan Latham Cowne, on August 30, 1868. He was a middle-aged bachelor from her old family neighborhood. In 1880, she was probably a widow (marital status blank) and living with her brother, Edward, and her widowed sister, Virginia. In 1900 she's a widow, living with her brother, Frank & Cornelia.
4. Thomas Martin Lomax, Jr., born 1842 - died June 20, 1917, in a Richmond, VA, hospital, aged 80 years. He married Elizabeth “Eliza” Boteler on 6 July 1858 in The National Hotel in Washington, D. C. Eliza was born 1837 and died 1888. Her parents were Joseph Boteler, Jr., and Sally George. They had three sons. All were born and died in Fauquier and are buried at the Bristerburg Farm. They had 18 grandchildren, one of whom was born in 1924. Thomas, Jr. was qualified as an assessor of lands in 1894. He was an agriculturalist in Midland. “Thomas was a casket
bearer at “Josh” Martin’s funeral 29 February 1896. Josh was in the Black Horse Troop with Thomas.” “He was a member of the Board of Elections April 24 1897.” Thomas, Jr. is buried on the Lomax family farm in Bristersburg. “Thomas’s grave does not have a marked headstone. The Lomax family cemetery is ... clearly marked by old boxwood trees and an old iron fence..."
"Another Confederate Veteran has answered the last call. Mr. Thomas M. Lomax, a prominent citizen of Bristersburg section, Fauquier County, was a member of the Black Horse [Company] during the Civil War. [Enlisted 1 October 1862; paroled 4 May 1865 Winchester. Private. Wounded in the Valley of Virginia. He attended a reunion of the vets.] He was a sincere, tractable, Christian gentleman and a most dependable friend. Though of modest mien, he was ever ready to respond to the calls of his country and neighbors ..."
His descendants “still live in the area of Fauquier/
Stafford that has been the Lomax's "stomping ground" for the last two hundred years.”
5. Virginia Lomax was born 1841, married Samuel H. Botts, and died after 1906.
6. Francis “Frank” Jett Lomax was born 15 October 1844. He married Isabella, had two children, then at age 27, on May 21, 1873 in Spotsylvania Co., VA, married Cornelia Josephine Stewart (20), born 1853, Spotsylvania County, VA - d. 1925, d/o Mr. J.L. Stewart & Mrs. H.C. Stewart, and had eight children. He died 20 January 1923. He enlisted 1861 in the 9th VA Cavalry, Company A, Stafford Rangers, and survived the war. He is buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Bealeton, VA.
Georgia's parents, John Coffey Stanford and Isabella "Belle" Lomax had the following four children (only 3 were living by 1900):
1. Marion F. "Forrest" Stanford (1867-1944) #173006627. He and his wife purchased an ante bellum home in Fauquier County in 1913 and were living there in 1937 when interviewed about it. Buried Warrenton, VA.
2. Miss Hattie Lomax Stanford was born on March 9, 1870 in Fauquier County, Virginia. She died of a cerebral hemmorhage due to arterial sclerosis at 7:00 a.m. on January 29, 1941 at the age of 70y, 10m, 20d, at RFD #1, Catlett, Cedar Run (Magisterial District), Fauquier County, Virginia, but her normal residence was Calverton (outside the corporate city limits), Fauquier, VA, where she was buried with Georgia Belle. Hattie never married.
The 1900 census finds Hattie L. Stanford (28) living with her sister Georgia Belle Stanford Bloxton and brother-in-law Conway Peyton Bloxton (30) in Washington, District of Columbia.
In the 1910 census, Hattie Stanford (38, farmer) is listed living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia. At this time, her nephew Roland Stanford (11) was living with her.
The 1920 census lists Hattie L. Stanford (49) living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia. Her nephew Shirley M. Stanford (23) is living with her at the time.
In 1930, Hattie L. Stanford (59, farmer) is living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia. Her brother John T. Stanford (51) is living with her.
The 1940 census lists the family living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia and includes Hattie L. Stanford (70, farmer), brother John T Stanford (60, farmer), and nephew Roland (41, farmer).
3. GEORGIA BELLE STANFORD (BLOXTON) (1873-1913)
4. John Thomas Stanford, born July 15, 1877, Fauquier, VA. In 1900 at Cedar Run District (south part), Fauquier County, VA, age 22, was married to Laura (23) (divorced prior to 1920) and had two sons: Shirley Martin Stanford, born 24 Nov 1896, in Fauquier County, Virginia, died 25 May 1987, in Stafford, Stafford, Virginia. & Roland Carter Stanford, born 27 Jul 1899, in Virginia, died 31 Dec 1963, in Virginia. He married Mildred Grace LNU in Virginia.
Laura is buried with a gravestone shared with Grace [D. Smith] Rabbitt, b. 20 Nov 1884, Virginia, d. 11 Feb 1965, Loudon County, Virginia. This is Laura's sister...she named one of her children Grace Douglas Stanford. Grace was the widow of Joseph Randolph Rabbitt, b. 21 Jan 1880, Montgomery County, Maryland, d. 1930/1940, District of Columbia.
There is a grave marker for her in the Oakwood Cemetery, Falls Church, Falls Church City, Virginia with her namesake daughter. They ran out of room on the gravestone to say that Georgia Belle Bloxton Hunter is the DAUGHTER OF CONWAY P. BLOXTON... "AND GEORGIA BELLE STANFORD BLOXTON", so that latter statement is on a smaller marker just below her daughter/namesake's larger gravestone.
She was buried on May 6, 1913. According to her death certificate, she was buried in Calverton, Fauquier, Virginia--her spinster sister, Hattie Stanford, was also buried there in 1941 AND her residence was Elkmount (AKA Elk Run) Family Farm (said to have been the oldest dairy farm in VA, but this is unconfirmed) in Calverton (1940 Census directions: Rt 607 (Shenandoah Path) between Route 806 (Elk Run Road) & intersection with CR 616 (Bristersburg Road), Cedar Run)--Eustace Farm is also in this area. It has been confirmed by family who have visited it that she and her sister, Hattie, are buried in a family cemetery on the Elkmount Family Farm property. Her grave is marked with an unmarked fieldstone next to a stone wall.
I was told that Belle taught piano.
Georgia Belle and Conway had five children:
Conway Russell Bloxton
Alexander Moncure Bloxton
Georgia "Belle" Bloxton
Hattie Estelle Bloxton
(named for "Georgie's" sister,
Hattie Stanford)
Clyde Strother Bloxton
Georgia Belle Stanford and Conway Peyton Bloxton were married on 5 September 1894 in Fauquier County, Virginia. Conway Peyton Bloxton was born on 2 December 1869 in Newport News, Warwick, Virginia. He died on 28 March 1952 at the age of 82 in Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, when he refused to have his leg removed to save his life from infection. He was buried in Newport News, Warwick, Virginia. Conway was the son of Alexander Bloxton and Ella Henry Conway.
Georgia Belle Stanford's father, John Coffey Stanford, was born about 1839 in Georgia (My DNA Report has him as 1845-1908) (his father b. in Maryland; his mother b. in Virginia). Several researchers assign 22 Jul 1908 as the date of John's death in Ruckersville, Green, Virginia. A John Stanford from Meriwether County, Georgia served in Company F, 55th Georgia Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and a John C. Stanford served in Company C., 7th Georgia Volunteer Infantry raised in Paulding County. Which, if either, of these is our John is unknown, but both of these units ended the War in Virginia with Lee.
In 1870, Isabella Lomax Stanford was living with her younger brother Francis "Frank" in the Upperville district of Fauquier with two of her children, Forrest Marion (3) & Hattie (2-1/2). Her husband cannot be found--may have been away looking for work or absent on business.
Based on an 1880 census of Fauquier County, Virginia, John's age and place of birth, and the common use of certain names, a somewhat tenuous case can be made that our John is the John C. Stanford who settled in Fauquier County, Virginia after the Civil War. John's middle name may have been "Coffey" as stated by a number of researchers, but the basis for this is yet unknown.
In 1880, the family was found living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia and the record included John Stanford (35, farmer), Isabella (35), Forrest M. (13), Hattie L. (10), Georgia (6), and John T. (3). In this record, John indicated that his father was born in Maryland, which fits for Joshua Tallie Stanford (although Susan, John's mother, was born in Georgia, not Virginia as indicated in the census). The ages for both John and Isabella in this record are incorrect...they would both have been about 41.
The 1900 census finds Isabella living with her son John Thomas Stanford and lists her as a widow for convention's sake, but was probably preferred by her instead of "divorced".
John Coffey Stanford and Isabella "Belle" Lomax were married September 1863 in Virginia. Isabella "Belle" Lomax was born in October 1839 (or 1836) in Fauquier, Virginia. She died on 2 February 1909 at the age of 69 in Calverton, Fauquier, Virginia.
He married (2) Sue M. Irving on February 20, 1901, in Cumberland County, Virginia.
Pat Sullivan posted in his blog that:
John Coffey Stanford, an itinerant sewing machine repairer, was still legally married to Isabella, his wife of thirty-three years, whom he abandoned in Fauquier County in the early 1890s, when he got into an altercation with Isaac Jones (60) over the affections of Phenie Frances Tapp in March 1896 (Phenie didn't know her marriage to J.C. Stanford on January 19, 1896 in Washington, D.C. was to a bigamist.) A month after Stanford's showdown with Jones, John and Isabella mutually sued each for divorce on the basis of desertion in 1896, during which time she managed her own affairs and paid her own bills, and he made the home of his witnesses, George W. (19) & Frank B. (17) Heflin (2-3 miles away near Midland), his home. A divorce decree was granted on April 25, 1896 to Isabella Stanford. Conway Peyton Bloxton (26) and her nephew, Spurgeon M. Lomax (35), who sold John & Isabella the farm adjoining his near Elk Run, were both witnesses for Isabella. Their ante bellum mansion farm house, "Elk Mount" (aka "Elkmont") was built by Isabella's grandfather, John Lomax.
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE (Alexandria VA), Thursday, March 26, 1896 -
A ROW IN ORANGE
Isaac Jones, of Spotsylvania, VA, and John C. Stanford, of Fauquier, had an altercation resulting in a desperate fight at the house of Mr. Oscar Almond near Locust Grove in Orange County on Sunday afternoon in which Jones received a pistol ball in his left arm and Stanford's head and face were badly hacked and cut with a grubbing hoe. Both are married men--Jone's family living near the Wilderness Store, and Stanford's at Elk Run in Fauquier. The row was on account of one Phoene Tapp, living near Parker's in Spotsylvania, a rustic nymph du pave, whose charms seem to have enthralled both of them. She and Jones, it seems, have been friends for the past four or five years, all others being ousted in his favor, until Stanford, an itinerant sewing machine repairer, put in an appearance last fall. He must have made a complete conquest of the woman, for she shortly abandoned Jones to follow her new lover. Jones' rage at being left in the lurch is said to have been terrible. He swore vengeance on both of them and promised to carry it out should they come in his way. Stanford and the woman went to Washington, where they claimed to have been married, and came to Orange Sunday, they say, to attend to some business matters that S. had left unsettled. The woman stopped at Mr. Almond's, while the man went to the house of Constable J. L. Morris. While he was absent, Jones put in his appearance, and when Stanford returned to Almond's, they met and the row occurred. Jones says that after some words, Stanford started to draw his pistol on him, and that he used the hoe in self-defense. Stanford's story is that, as he approached the house of Almond, Jones came out and, picking up the hoe, cursed and assaulted him. The woman who got the men apart confirms what Stanford says. Constable Morris, who left home on his way to Orange Courthouse at the same time Stanford started for Almond's, heard the pistol shots and screams of women. He started in the direction of the sound and met Stanford in an exhausted condition and smeared with blood. He told the constable what had occurred and asked to be taken to some place where his wounds could be attended to. Mr. Morris did this, then went to the scene of the affray. He found Jones and the woman there. Jones gave him his version of the affair as related above and said that he intended to follow and kill Stanford. The woman said, but for her, he would have overtaken his victim before the constable met him and would have surely killed him. Mr. Morris said he considered Jones' wound very slight, but he thought Stanford was in a bad way. The ball struck Jones' left hand, just breaking the skin and entering the fleshy part of the arm near the elbow. The wounded man wanted the constable to cut the bail out in order to save him a doctor's bill. Jones returned home Sunday night to have his wound attended to, and Stanford and his alleged wife came to Spotsylvania to the home of the woman's mother Monday morning. Constable Morris reported the matter to the Orange authorities Monday, and the proper steps were taken to have the parties brought to justice. The people of the vicinity are very indignant at the occurrence, and there seems to be a strong sentiment in favor of dealing severely with the lawbreakers. --Fredericksburg Star
3rd Great-Grandfather Joshua Talley Stanford (1801-1881) & Susan Jones Stanford (1805-1853) are on my DNA Report. My DNA 4th Great-Grandfather Levin Stanford (1784-1850) & Ellender G. (McGee) Stanford (1786-1857) and 4th Great-Grandfather Abraham Parham Jones (1752-1831) (spouse unknown).
Isabella "Belle" Lomax Stanford was the daughter of Thomas Martin Lomax, Sr. (b. 1805 (or abt 1802), born and died in Fauquier County, Virginia - died 27 July 1858) and Celia "Jane" Russell (b. 1810 (or abt 1805), born and died in Fauquier County - died 1850 (or between 1844 and 1850), and had five siblings. 3rd Great-Grandfather Thomas Martin Lomax (1805-1858) & Celia Jane (Russell) Lomax (1810-1850) are on my DNA Report. On the 1840 Census, Thomas M. Lomax, who owned slaves, was residing in Hamilton, Fauquier County, VA. Thomas was a teacher at nearby Elk Run School, farmer and beekeeper. He served from Virginia in the Fourth Cavalry of the Confederate Army during the Civil War, age 26 in 1862.
Thomas was the son of:
John and Susan Lomax. “John Lomax came to Fauquier from Charles County, [Maryland]. John built several “mansion-type” homes in the late 1700s in Fauquier. They were all within [two] miles of Elk Run. They were called “Elkmont”, “Locust Level” aka “Verdant Lawn”, and the “Martha Kane” house.”
Celia "Jane" Russell Lomax was the daughter of:
Marcus Russell and Sarah Green of Fauquier.
“The Lomax home is still standing today and is [in] good condition. The original building has been encased by additions and modernized. The Historic Landmarks Commission wrote up ... the home in the 1950s.”
Thomas & Jane Lomax were married in 1830 and had six children (all of whom were born and died in Fauquier County, VA):
1. Edward Lomax was born 1834 and died the Winter of 1886-1887. On March 10, 1861 at "Jumping Hollow" Edward was enlisted for three years in Company A, Stafford Rangers, 9th Virginia Cavalry by Captain Thomas Conway Waller to serve his home state. Private Edward Lomax was captured in Fauquier County on December 13, 1863 and sent to the "Old Capitol Prison" in Washington, D.C. From there he was transported to the infamous Point Lookout Prison in St. Mary's County, Maryland until he was exchanged on February 24, 1865. That he survived imprisonment was nothing short of miraculous. Out of 52,000 prisoners, over 14,000 died while incarcerated in this prisoner of war camp.
In 1880, his two sisters, Eliza Jane Cowne and Virginia Botts (widow), along with Virginia's two young daughters, Lizzie & Helen, were living on a farm in Fauquier County with Edward. Edward had purchased his father's beekeeper supplies, and in January 1887, John C. Stanford purchased Edward's bee hives from his estate.
2. Isabella "Belle" Lomax (John Coffey) Stanford 1836 - February 2, 1909. Will of Feb 13, 1909: She left the bulk of her estate to her unmarried daughter, Hattie L. Stanford, who had probably cared for her personal needs, and to her youngest son, John T. Stanford, who had apparently managed her farm. John T.'s son, Shirley M., was given 1/4 of her cattle. Isabella left small sums of money to her eldest son, Marion Forrest Stanford and daughter, Georgia B. Stanford Bloxton.
3. Elizabeth “Eliza” Jane Lomax was born 1838/1840 - died after 1900, and married Robert Latham Cowne, son of Thomas W. Cowne and Susan Latham Cowne, on August 30, 1868. He was a middle-aged bachelor from her old family neighborhood. In 1880, she was probably a widow (marital status blank) and living with her brother, Edward, and her widowed sister, Virginia. In 1900 she's a widow, living with her brother, Frank & Cornelia.
4. Thomas Martin Lomax, Jr., born 1842 - died June 20, 1917, in a Richmond, VA, hospital, aged 80 years. He married Elizabeth “Eliza” Boteler on 6 July 1858 in The National Hotel in Washington, D. C. Eliza was born 1837 and died 1888. Her parents were Joseph Boteler, Jr., and Sally George. They had three sons. All were born and died in Fauquier and are buried at the Bristerburg Farm. They had 18 grandchildren, one of whom was born in 1924. Thomas, Jr. was qualified as an assessor of lands in 1894. He was an agriculturalist in Midland. “Thomas was a casket
bearer at “Josh” Martin’s funeral 29 February 1896. Josh was in the Black Horse Troop with Thomas.” “He was a member of the Board of Elections April 24 1897.” Thomas, Jr. is buried on the Lomax family farm in Bristersburg. “Thomas’s grave does not have a marked headstone. The Lomax family cemetery is ... clearly marked by old boxwood trees and an old iron fence..."
"Another Confederate Veteran has answered the last call. Mr. Thomas M. Lomax, a prominent citizen of Bristersburg section, Fauquier County, was a member of the Black Horse [Company] during the Civil War. [Enlisted 1 October 1862; paroled 4 May 1865 Winchester. Private. Wounded in the Valley of Virginia. He attended a reunion of the vets.] He was a sincere, tractable, Christian gentleman and a most dependable friend. Though of modest mien, he was ever ready to respond to the calls of his country and neighbors ..."
His descendants “still live in the area of Fauquier/
Stafford that has been the Lomax's "stomping ground" for the last two hundred years.”
5. Virginia Lomax was born 1841, married Samuel H. Botts, and died after 1906.
6. Francis “Frank” Jett Lomax was born 15 October 1844. He married Isabella, had two children, then at age 27, on May 21, 1873 in Spotsylvania Co., VA, married Cornelia Josephine Stewart (20), born 1853, Spotsylvania County, VA - d. 1925, d/o Mr. J.L. Stewart & Mrs. H.C. Stewart, and had eight children. He died 20 January 1923. He enlisted 1861 in the 9th VA Cavalry, Company A, Stafford Rangers, and survived the war. He is buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Bealeton, VA.
Georgia's parents, John Coffey Stanford and Isabella "Belle" Lomax had the following four children (only 3 were living by 1900):
1. Marion F. "Forrest" Stanford (1867-1944) #173006627. He and his wife purchased an ante bellum home in Fauquier County in 1913 and were living there in 1937 when interviewed about it. Buried Warrenton, VA.
2. Miss Hattie Lomax Stanford was born on March 9, 1870 in Fauquier County, Virginia. She died of a cerebral hemmorhage due to arterial sclerosis at 7:00 a.m. on January 29, 1941 at the age of 70y, 10m, 20d, at RFD #1, Catlett, Cedar Run (Magisterial District), Fauquier County, Virginia, but her normal residence was Calverton (outside the corporate city limits), Fauquier, VA, where she was buried with Georgia Belle. Hattie never married.
The 1900 census finds Hattie L. Stanford (28) living with her sister Georgia Belle Stanford Bloxton and brother-in-law Conway Peyton Bloxton (30) in Washington, District of Columbia.
In the 1910 census, Hattie Stanford (38, farmer) is listed living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia. At this time, her nephew Roland Stanford (11) was living with her.
The 1920 census lists Hattie L. Stanford (49) living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia. Her nephew Shirley M. Stanford (23) is living with her at the time.
In 1930, Hattie L. Stanford (59, farmer) is living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia. Her brother John T. Stanford (51) is living with her.
The 1940 census lists the family living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia and includes Hattie L. Stanford (70, farmer), brother John T Stanford (60, farmer), and nephew Roland (41, farmer).
3. GEORGIA BELLE STANFORD (BLOXTON) (1873-1913)
4. John Thomas Stanford, born July 15, 1877, Fauquier, VA. In 1900 at Cedar Run District (south part), Fauquier County, VA, age 22, was married to Laura (23) (divorced prior to 1920) and had two sons: Shirley Martin Stanford, born 24 Nov 1896, in Fauquier County, Virginia, died 25 May 1987, in Stafford, Stafford, Virginia. & Roland Carter Stanford, born 27 Jul 1899, in Virginia, died 31 Dec 1963, in Virginia. He married Mildred Grace LNU in Virginia.
Laura is buried with a gravestone shared with Grace [D. Smith] Rabbitt, b. 20 Nov 1884, Virginia, d. 11 Feb 1965, Loudon County, Virginia. This is Laura's sister...she named one of her children Grace Douglas Stanford. Grace was the widow of Joseph Randolph Rabbitt, b. 21 Jan 1880, Montgomery County, Maryland, d. 1930/1940, District of Columbia.
Georgia Belle Stanford was born on 29 November 1873, Cedar Run, Fauquier County, Virginia to John Coffey Stanford & Isabella (Lomax) Stanford. She died at 9:00 a.m. on May 4, 1913 (not quite nine months after Clyde was born on August 23, 1912), at the age of 39y, 5m, 5d (38y, 7m on death certificate) in Merrifield (not on death certificate), Falls Church District, Fairfax County, Virginia of meningitis and lagrapphe. Secondary contributing factor was exhaustion.
There is a grave marker for her in the Oakwood Cemetery, Falls Church, Falls Church City, Virginia with her namesake daughter. They ran out of room on the gravestone to say that Georgia Belle Bloxton Hunter is the DAUGHTER OF CONWAY P. BLOXTON... "AND GEORGIA BELLE STANFORD BLOXTON", so that latter statement is on a smaller marker just below her daughter/namesake's larger gravestone.
She was buried on May 6, 1913. According to her death certificate, she was buried in Calverton, Fauquier, Virginia--her spinster sister, Hattie Stanford, was also buried there in 1941 AND her residence was Elkmount (AKA Elk Run) Family Farm (said to have been the oldest dairy farm in VA, but this is unconfirmed) in Calverton (1940 Census directions: Rt 607 (Shenandoah Path) between Route 806 (Elk Run Road) & intersection with CR 616 (Bristersburg Road), Cedar Run)--Eustace Farm is also in this area. It has been confirmed by family who have visited it that she and her sister, Hattie, are buried in a family cemetery on the Elkmount Family Farm property. Her grave is marked with an unmarked fieldstone next to a stone wall.
I was told that Belle taught piano.
Georgia Belle and Conway had five children:
Conway Russell Bloxton
Alexander Moncure Bloxton
Georgia "Belle" Bloxton
Hattie Estelle Bloxton
(named for "Georgie's" sister,
Hattie Stanford)
Clyde Strother Bloxton
Georgia Belle Stanford and Conway Peyton Bloxton were married on 5 September 1894 in Fauquier County, Virginia. Conway Peyton Bloxton was born on 2 December 1869 in Newport News, Warwick, Virginia. He died on 28 March 1952 at the age of 82 in Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, when he refused to have his leg removed to save his life from infection. He was buried in Newport News, Warwick, Virginia. Conway was the son of Alexander Bloxton and Ella Henry Conway.
Georgia Belle Stanford's father, John Coffey Stanford, was born about 1839 in Georgia (My DNA Report has him as 1845-1908) (his father b. in Maryland; his mother b. in Virginia). Several researchers assign 22 Jul 1908 as the date of John's death in Ruckersville, Green, Virginia. A John Stanford from Meriwether County, Georgia served in Company F, 55th Georgia Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and a John C. Stanford served in Company C., 7th Georgia Volunteer Infantry raised in Paulding County. Which, if either, of these is our John is unknown, but both of these units ended the War in Virginia with Lee.
In 1870, Isabella Lomax Stanford was living with her younger brother Francis "Frank" in the Upperville district of Fauquier with two of her children, Forrest Marion (3) & Hattie (2-1/2). Her husband cannot be found--may have been away looking for work or absent on business.
Based on an 1880 census of Fauquier County, Virginia, John's age and place of birth, and the common use of certain names, a somewhat tenuous case can be made that our John is the John C. Stanford who settled in Fauquier County, Virginia after the Civil War. John's middle name may have been "Coffey" as stated by a number of researchers, but the basis for this is yet unknown.
In 1880, the family was found living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia and the record included John Stanford (35, farmer), Isabella (35), Forrest M. (13), Hattie L. (10), Georgia (6), and John T. (3). In this record, John indicated that his father was born in Maryland, which fits for Joshua Tallie Stanford (although Susan, John's mother, was born in Georgia, not Virginia as indicated in the census). The ages for both John and Isabella in this record are incorrect...they would both have been about 41.
The 1900 census finds Isabella living with her son John Thomas Stanford and lists her as a widow for convention's sake, but was probably preferred by her instead of "divorced".
John Coffey Stanford and Isabella "Belle" Lomax were married September 1863 in Virginia. Isabella "Belle" Lomax was born in October 1839 (or 1836) in Fauquier, Virginia. She died on 2 February 1909 at the age of 69 in Calverton, Fauquier, Virginia.
He married (2) Sue M. Irving on February 20, 1901, in Cumberland County, Virginia.
Pat Sullivan posted in his blog that:
John Coffey Stanford, an itinerant sewing machine repairer, was still legally married to Isabella, his wife of thirty-three years, whom he abandoned in Fauquier County in the early 1890s, when he got into an altercation with Isaac Jones (60) over the affections of Phenie Frances Tapp in March 1896 (Phenie didn't know her marriage to J.C. Stanford on January 19, 1896 in Washington, D.C. was to a bigamist.) A month after Stanford's showdown with Jones, John and Isabella mutually sued each for divorce on the basis of desertion in 1896, during which time she managed her own affairs and paid her own bills, and he made the home of his witnesses, George W. (19) & Frank B. (17) Heflin (2-3 miles away near Midland), his home. A divorce decree was granted on April 25, 1896 to Isabella Stanford. Conway Peyton Bloxton (26) and her nephew, Spurgeon M. Lomax (35), who sold John & Isabella the farm adjoining his near Elk Run, were both witnesses for Isabella. Their ante bellum mansion farm house, "Elk Mount" (aka "Elkmont") was built by Isabella's grandfather, John Lomax.
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE (Alexandria VA), Thursday, March 26, 1896 -
A ROW IN ORANGE
Isaac Jones, of Spotsylvania, VA, and John C. Stanford, of Fauquier, had an altercation resulting in a desperate fight at the house of Mr. Oscar Almond near Locust Grove in Orange County on Sunday afternoon in which Jones received a pistol ball in his left arm and Stanford's head and face were badly hacked and cut with a grubbing hoe. Both are married men--Jone's family living near the Wilderness Store, and Stanford's at Elk Run in Fauquier. The row was on account of one Phoene Tapp, living near Parker's in Spotsylvania, a rustic nymph du pave, whose charms seem to have enthralled both of them. She and Jones, it seems, have been friends for the past four or five years, all others being ousted in his favor, until Stanford, an itinerant sewing machine repairer, put in an appearance last fall. He must have made a complete conquest of the woman, for she shortly abandoned Jones to follow her new lover. Jones' rage at being left in the lurch is said to have been terrible. He swore vengeance on both of them and promised to carry it out should they come in his way. Stanford and the woman went to Washington, where they claimed to have been married, and came to Orange Sunday, they say, to attend to some business matters that S. had left unsettled. The woman stopped at Mr. Almond's, while the man went to the house of Constable J. L. Morris. While he was absent, Jones put in his appearance, and when Stanford returned to Almond's, they met and the row occurred. Jones says that after some words, Stanford started to draw his pistol on him, and that he used the hoe in self-defense. Stanford's story is that, as he approached the house of Almond, Jones came out and, picking up the hoe, cursed and assaulted him. The woman who got the men apart confirms what Stanford says. Constable Morris, who left home on his way to Orange Courthouse at the same time Stanford started for Almond's, heard the pistol shots and screams of women. He started in the direction of the sound and met Stanford in an exhausted condition and smeared with blood. He told the constable what had occurred and asked to be taken to some place where his wounds could be attended to. Mr. Morris did this, then went to the scene of the affray. He found Jones and the woman there. Jones gave him his version of the affair as related above and said that he intended to follow and kill Stanford. The woman said, but for her, he would have overtaken his victim before the constable met him and would have surely killed him. Mr. Morris said he considered Jones' wound very slight, but he thought Stanford was in a bad way. The ball struck Jones' left hand, just breaking the skin and entering the fleshy part of the arm near the elbow. The wounded man wanted the constable to cut the bail out in order to save him a doctor's bill. Jones returned home Sunday night to have his wound attended to, and Stanford and his alleged wife came to Spotsylvania to the home of the woman's mother Monday morning. Constable Morris reported the matter to the Orange authorities Monday, and the proper steps were taken to have the parties brought to justice. The people of the vicinity are very indignant at the occurrence, and there seems to be a strong sentiment in favor of dealing severely with the lawbreakers. --Fredericksburg Star
3rd Great-Grandfather Joshua Talley Stanford (1801-1881) & Susan Jones Stanford (1805-1853) are on my DNA Report. My DNA 4th Great-Grandfather Levin Stanford (1784-1850) & Ellender G. (McGee) Stanford (1786-1857) and 4th Great-Grandfather Abraham Parham Jones (1752-1831) (spouse unknown).
Isabella "Belle" Lomax Stanford was the daughter of Thomas Martin Lomax, Sr. (b. 1805 (or abt 1802), born and died in Fauquier County, Virginia - died 27 July 1858) and Celia "Jane" Russell (b. 1810 (or abt 1805), born and died in Fauquier County - died 1850 (or between 1844 and 1850), and had five siblings. 3rd Great-Grandfather Thomas Martin Lomax (1805-1858) & Celia Jane (Russell) Lomax (1810-1850) are on my DNA Report. On the 1840 Census, Thomas M. Lomax, who owned slaves, was residing in Hamilton, Fauquier County, VA. Thomas was a teacher at nearby Elk Run School, farmer and beekeeper. He served from Virginia in the Fourth Cavalry of the Confederate Army during the Civil War, age 26 in 1862.
Thomas was the son of:
John and Susan Lomax. “John Lomax came to Fauquier from Charles County, [Maryland]. John built several “mansion-type” homes in the late 1700s in Fauquier. They were all within [two] miles of Elk Run. They were called “Elkmont”, “Locust Level” aka “Verdant Lawn”, and the “Martha Kane” house.”
Celia "Jane" Russell Lomax was the daughter of:
Marcus Russell and Sarah Green of Fauquier.
“The Lomax home is still standing today and is [in] good condition. The original building has been encased by additions and modernized. The Historic Landmarks Commission wrote up ... the home in the 1950s.”
Thomas & Jane Lomax were married in 1830 and had six children (all of whom were born and died in Fauquier County, VA):
1. Edward Lomax was born 1834 and died the Winter of 1886-1887. On March 10, 1861 at "Jumping Hollow" Edward was enlisted for three years in Company A, Stafford Rangers, 9th Virginia Cavalry by Captain Thomas Conway Waller to serve his home state. Private Edward Lomax was captured in Fauquier County on December 13, 1863 and sent to the "Old Capitol Prison" in Washington, D.C. From there he was transported to the infamous Point Lookout Prison in St. Mary's County, Maryland until he was exchanged on February 24, 1865. That he survived imprisonment was nothing short of miraculous. Out of 52,000 prisoners, over 14,000 died while incarcerated in this prisoner of war camp.
In 1880, his two sisters, Eliza Jane Cowne and Virginia Botts (widow), along with Virginia's two young daughters, Lizzie & Helen, were living on a farm in Fauquier County with Edward. Edward had purchased his father's beekeeper supplies, and in January 1887, John C. Stanford purchased Edward's bee hives from his estate.
2. Isabella "Belle" Lomax (John Coffey) Stanford 1836 - February 2, 1909. Will of Feb 13, 1909: She left the bulk of her estate to her unmarried daughter, Hattie L. Stanford, who had probably cared for her personal needs, and to her youngest son, John T. Stanford, who had apparently managed her farm. John T.'s son, Shirley M., was given 1/4 of her cattle. Isabella left small sums of money to her eldest son, Marion Forrest Stanford and daughter, Georgia B. Stanford Bloxton.
3. Elizabeth “Eliza” Jane Lomax was born 1838/1840 - died after 1900, and married Robert Latham Cowne, son of Thomas W. Cowne and Susan Latham Cowne, on August 30, 1868. He was a middle-aged bachelor from her old family neighborhood. In 1880, she was probably a widow (marital status blank) and living with her brother, Edward, and her widowed sister, Virginia. In 1900 she's a widow, living with her brother, Frank & Cornelia.
4. Thomas Martin Lomax, Jr., born 1842 - died June 20, 1917, in a Richmond, VA, hospital, aged 80 years. He married Elizabeth “Eliza” Boteler on 6 July 1858 in The National Hotel in Washington, D. C. Eliza was born 1837 and died 1888. Her parents were Joseph Boteler, Jr., and Sally George. They had three sons. All were born and died in Fauquier and are buried at the Bristerburg Farm. They had 18 grandchildren, one of whom was born in 1924. Thomas, Jr. was qualified as an assessor of lands in 1894. He was an agriculturalist in Midland. “Thomas was a casket
bearer at “Josh” Martin’s funeral 29 February 1896. Josh was in the Black Horse Troop with Thomas.” “He was a member of the Board of Elections April 24 1897.” Thomas, Jr. is buried on the Lomax family farm in Bristersburg. “Thomas’s grave does not have a marked headstone. The Lomax family cemetery is ... clearly marked by old boxwood trees and an old iron fence..."
"Another Confederate Veteran has answered the last call. Mr. Thomas M. Lomax, a prominent citizen of Bristersburg section, Fauquier County, was a member of the Black Horse [Company] during the Civil War. [Enlisted 1 October 1862; paroled 4 May 1865 Winchester. Private. Wounded in the Valley of Virginia. He attended a reunion of the vets.] He was a sincere, tractable, Christian gentleman and a most dependable friend. Though of modest mien, he was ever ready to respond to the calls of his country and neighbors ..."
His descendants “still live in the area of Fauquier/
Stafford that has been the Lomax's "stomping ground" for the last two hundred years.”
5. Virginia Lomax was born 1841, married Samuel H. Botts, and died after 1906.
6. Francis “Frank” Jett Lomax was born 15 October 1844. He married Isabella, had two children, then at age 27, on May 21, 1873 in Spotsylvania Co., VA, married Cornelia Josephine Stewart (20), born 1853, Spotsylvania County, VA - d. 1925, d/o Mr. J.L. Stewart & Mrs. H.C. Stewart, and had eight children. He died 20 January 1923. He enlisted 1861 in the 9th VA Cavalry, Company A, Stafford Rangers, and survived the war. He is buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Bealeton, VA.
Georgia's parents, John Coffey Stanford and Isabella "Belle" Lomax had the following four children (only 3 were living by 1900):
1. Marion F. "Forrest" Stanford (1867-1944) #173006627. He and his wife purchased an ante bellum home in Fauquier County in 1913 and were living there in 1937 when interviewed about it. Buried Warrenton, VA.
2. Miss Hattie Lomax Stanford was born on March 9, 1870 in Fauquier County, Virginia. She died of a cerebral hemmorhage due to arterial sclerosis at 7:00 a.m. on January 29, 1941 at the age of 70y, 10m, 20d, at RFD #1, Catlett, Cedar Run (Magisterial District), Fauquier County, Virginia, but her normal residence was Calverton (outside the corporate city limits), Fauquier, VA, where she was buried with Georgia Belle. Hattie never married.
The 1900 census finds Hattie L. Stanford (28) living with her sister Georgia Belle Stanford Bloxton and brother-in-law Conway Peyton Bloxton (30) in Washington, District of Columbia.
In the 1910 census, Hattie Stanford (38, farmer) is listed living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia. At this time, her nephew Roland Stanford (11) was living with her.
The 1920 census lists Hattie L. Stanford (49) living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia. Her nephew Shirley M. Stanford (23) is living with her at the time.
In 1930, Hattie L. Stanford (59, farmer) is living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia. Her brother John T. Stanford (51) is living with her.
The 1940 census lists the family living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia and includes Hattie L. Stanford (70, farmer), brother John T Stanford (60, farmer), and nephew Roland (41, farmer).
3. GEORGIA BELLE STANFORD (BLOXTON) (1873-1913)
4. John Thomas Stanford, born July 15, 1877, Fauquier, VA. In 1900 at Cedar Run District (south part), Fauquier County, VA, age 22, was married to Laura (23) (divorced prior to 1920) and had two sons: Shirley Martin Stanford, born 24 Nov 1896, in Fauquier County, Virginia, died 25 May 1987, in Stafford, Stafford, Virginia. & Roland Carter Stanford, born 27 Jul 1899, in Virginia, died 31 Dec 1963, in Virginia. He married Mildred Grace LNU in Virginia.
Laura is buried with a gravestone shared with Grace [D. Smith] Rabbitt, b. 20 Nov 1884, Virginia, d. 11 Feb 1965, Loudon County, Virginia. This is Laura's sister...she named one of her children Grace Douglas Stanford. Grace was the widow of Joseph Randolph Rabbitt, b. 21 Jan 1880, Montgomery County, Maryland, d. 1930/1940, District of Columbia.
There is a grave marker for her in the Oakwood Cemetery, Falls Church, Falls Church City, Virginia with her namesake daughter. They ran out of room on the gravestone to say that Georgia Belle Bloxton Hunter is the DAUGHTER OF CONWAY P. BLOXTON... "AND GEORGIA BELLE STANFORD BLOXTON", so that latter statement is on a smaller marker just below her daughter/namesake's larger gravestone.
She was buried on May 6, 1913. According to her death certificate, she was buried in Calverton, Fauquier, Virginia--her spinster sister, Hattie Stanford, was also buried there in 1941 AND her residence was Elkmount (AKA Elk Run) Family Farm (said to have been the oldest dairy farm in VA, but this is unconfirmed) in Calverton (1940 Census directions: Rt 607 (Shenandoah Path) between Route 806 (Elk Run Road) & intersection with CR 616 (Bristersburg Road), Cedar Run)--Eustace Farm is also in this area. It has been confirmed by family who have visited it that she and her sister, Hattie, are buried in a family cemetery on the Elkmount Family Farm property. Her grave is marked with an unmarked fieldstone next to a stone wall.
I was told that Belle taught piano.
Georgia Belle and Conway had five children:
Conway Russell Bloxton
Alexander Moncure Bloxton
Georgia "Belle" Bloxton
Hattie Estelle Bloxton
(named for "Georgie's" sister,
Hattie Stanford)
Clyde Strother Bloxton
Georgia Belle Stanford and Conway Peyton Bloxton were married on 5 September 1894 in Fauquier County, Virginia. Conway Peyton Bloxton was born on 2 December 1869 in Newport News, Warwick, Virginia. He died on 28 March 1952 at the age of 82 in Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, when he refused to have his leg removed to save his life from infection. He was buried in Newport News, Warwick, Virginia. Conway was the son of Alexander Bloxton and Ella Henry Conway.
Georgia Belle Stanford's father, John Coffey Stanford, was born about 1839 in Georgia (My DNA Report has him as 1845-1908) (his father b. in Maryland; his mother b. in Virginia). Several researchers assign 22 Jul 1908 as the date of John's death in Ruckersville, Green, Virginia. A John Stanford from Meriwether County, Georgia served in Company F, 55th Georgia Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and a John C. Stanford served in Company C., 7th Georgia Volunteer Infantry raised in Paulding County. Which, if either, of these is our John is unknown, but both of these units ended the War in Virginia with Lee.
In 1870, Isabella Lomax Stanford was living with her younger brother Francis "Frank" in the Upperville district of Fauquier with two of her children, Forrest Marion (3) & Hattie (2-1/2). Her husband cannot be found--may have been away looking for work or absent on business.
Based on an 1880 census of Fauquier County, Virginia, John's age and place of birth, and the common use of certain names, a somewhat tenuous case can be made that our John is the John C. Stanford who settled in Fauquier County, Virginia after the Civil War. John's middle name may have been "Coffey" as stated by a number of researchers, but the basis for this is yet unknown.
In 1880, the family was found living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia and the record included John Stanford (35, farmer), Isabella (35), Forrest M. (13), Hattie L. (10), Georgia (6), and John T. (3). In this record, John indicated that his father was born in Maryland, which fits for Joshua Tallie Stanford (although Susan, John's mother, was born in Georgia, not Virginia as indicated in the census). The ages for both John and Isabella in this record are incorrect...they would both have been about 41.
The 1900 census finds Isabella living with her son John Thomas Stanford and lists her as a widow for convention's sake, but was probably preferred by her instead of "divorced".
John Coffey Stanford and Isabella "Belle" Lomax were married September 1863 in Virginia. Isabella "Belle" Lomax was born in October 1839 (or 1836) in Fauquier, Virginia. She died on 2 February 1909 at the age of 69 in Calverton, Fauquier, Virginia.
He married (2) Sue M. Irving on February 20, 1901, in Cumberland County, Virginia.
Pat Sullivan posted in his blog that:
John Coffey Stanford, an itinerant sewing machine repairer, was still legally married to Isabella, his wife of thirty-three years, whom he abandoned in Fauquier County in the early 1890s, when he got into an altercation with Isaac Jones (60) over the affections of Phenie Frances Tapp in March 1896 (Phenie didn't know her marriage to J.C. Stanford on January 19, 1896 in Washington, D.C. was to a bigamist.) A month after Stanford's showdown with Jones, John and Isabella mutually sued each for divorce on the basis of desertion in 1896, during which time she managed her own affairs and paid her own bills, and he made the home of his witnesses, George W. (19) & Frank B. (17) Heflin (2-3 miles away near Midland), his home. A divorce decree was granted on April 25, 1896 to Isabella Stanford. Conway Peyton Bloxton (26) and her nephew, Spurgeon M. Lomax (35), who sold John & Isabella the farm adjoining his near Elk Run, were both witnesses for Isabella. Their ante bellum mansion farm house, "Elk Mount" (aka "Elkmont") was built by Isabella's grandfather, John Lomax.
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE (Alexandria VA), Thursday, March 26, 1896 -
A ROW IN ORANGE
Isaac Jones, of Spotsylvania, VA, and John C. Stanford, of Fauquier, had an altercation resulting in a desperate fight at the house of Mr. Oscar Almond near Locust Grove in Orange County on Sunday afternoon in which Jones received a pistol ball in his left arm and Stanford's head and face were badly hacked and cut with a grubbing hoe. Both are married men--Jone's family living near the Wilderness Store, and Stanford's at Elk Run in Fauquier. The row was on account of one Phoene Tapp, living near Parker's in Spotsylvania, a rustic nymph du pave, whose charms seem to have enthralled both of them. She and Jones, it seems, have been friends for the past four or five years, all others being ousted in his favor, until Stanford, an itinerant sewing machine repairer, put in an appearance last fall. He must have made a complete conquest of the woman, for she shortly abandoned Jones to follow her new lover. Jones' rage at being left in the lurch is said to have been terrible. He swore vengeance on both of them and promised to carry it out should they come in his way. Stanford and the woman went to Washington, where they claimed to have been married, and came to Orange Sunday, they say, to attend to some business matters that S. had left unsettled. The woman stopped at Mr. Almond's, while the man went to the house of Constable J. L. Morris. While he was absent, Jones put in his appearance, and when Stanford returned to Almond's, they met and the row occurred. Jones says that after some words, Stanford started to draw his pistol on him, and that he used the hoe in self-defense. Stanford's story is that, as he approached the house of Almond, Jones came out and, picking up the hoe, cursed and assaulted him. The woman who got the men apart confirms what Stanford says. Constable Morris, who left home on his way to Orange Courthouse at the same time Stanford started for Almond's, heard the pistol shots and screams of women. He started in the direction of the sound and met Stanford in an exhausted condition and smeared with blood. He told the constable what had occurred and asked to be taken to some place where his wounds could be attended to. Mr. Morris did this, then went to the scene of the affray. He found Jones and the woman there. Jones gave him his version of the affair as related above and said that he intended to follow and kill Stanford. The woman said, but for her, he would have overtaken his victim before the constable met him and would have surely killed him. Mr. Morris said he considered Jones' wound very slight, but he thought Stanford was in a bad way. The ball struck Jones' left hand, just breaking the skin and entering the fleshy part of the arm near the elbow. The wounded man wanted the constable to cut the bail out in order to save him a doctor's bill. Jones returned home Sunday night to have his wound attended to, and Stanford and his alleged wife came to Spotsylvania to the home of the woman's mother Monday morning. Constable Morris reported the matter to the Orange authorities Monday, and the proper steps were taken to have the parties brought to justice. The people of the vicinity are very indignant at the occurrence, and there seems to be a strong sentiment in favor of dealing severely with the lawbreakers. --Fredericksburg Star
3rd Great-Grandfather Joshua Talley Stanford (1801-1881) & Susan Jones Stanford (1805-1853) are on my DNA Report. My DNA 4th Great-Grandfather Levin Stanford (1784-1850) & Ellender G. (McGee) Stanford (1786-1857) and 4th Great-Grandfather Abraham Parham Jones (1752-1831) (spouse unknown).
Isabella "Belle" Lomax Stanford was the daughter of Thomas Martin Lomax, Sr. (b. 1805 (or abt 1802), born and died in Fauquier County, Virginia - died 27 July 1858) and Celia "Jane" Russell (b. 1810 (or abt 1805), born and died in Fauquier County - died 1850 (or between 1844 and 1850), and had five siblings. 3rd Great-Grandfather Thomas Martin Lomax (1805-1858) & Celia Jane (Russell) Lomax (1810-1850) are on my DNA Report. On the 1840 Census, Thomas M. Lomax, who owned slaves, was residing in Hamilton, Fauquier County, VA. Thomas was a teacher at nearby Elk Run School, farmer and beekeeper. He served from Virginia in the Fourth Cavalry of the Confederate Army during the Civil War, age 26 in 1862.
Thomas was the son of:
John and Susan Lomax. “John Lomax came to Fauquier from Charles County, [Maryland]. John built several “mansion-type” homes in the late 1700s in Fauquier. They were all within [two] miles of Elk Run. They were called “Elkmont”, “Locust Level” aka “Verdant Lawn”, and the “Martha Kane” house.”
Celia "Jane" Russell Lomax was the daughter of:
Marcus Russell and Sarah Green of Fauquier.
“The Lomax home is still standing today and is [in] good condition. The original building has been encased by additions and modernized. The Historic Landmarks Commission wrote up ... the home in the 1950s.”
Thomas & Jane Lomax were married in 1830 and had six children (all of whom were born and died in Fauquier County, VA):
1. Edward Lomax was born 1834 and died the Winter of 1886-1887. On March 10, 1861 at "Jumping Hollow" Edward was enlisted for three years in Company A, Stafford Rangers, 9th Virginia Cavalry by Captain Thomas Conway Waller to serve his home state. Private Edward Lomax was captured in Fauquier County on December 13, 1863 and sent to the "Old Capitol Prison" in Washington, D.C. From there he was transported to the infamous Point Lookout Prison in St. Mary's County, Maryland until he was exchanged on February 24, 1865. That he survived imprisonment was nothing short of miraculous. Out of 52,000 prisoners, over 14,000 died while incarcerated in this prisoner of war camp.
In 1880, his two sisters, Eliza Jane Cowne and Virginia Botts (widow), along with Virginia's two young daughters, Lizzie & Helen, were living on a farm in Fauquier County with Edward. Edward had purchased his father's beekeeper supplies, and in January 1887, John C. Stanford purchased Edward's bee hives from his estate.
2. Isabella "Belle" Lomax (John Coffey) Stanford 1836 - February 2, 1909. Will of Feb 13, 1909: She left the bulk of her estate to her unmarried daughter, Hattie L. Stanford, who had probably cared for her personal needs, and to her youngest son, John T. Stanford, who had apparently managed her farm. John T.'s son, Shirley M., was given 1/4 of her cattle. Isabella left small sums of money to her eldest son, Marion Forrest Stanford and daughter, Georgia B. Stanford Bloxton.
3. Elizabeth “Eliza” Jane Lomax was born 1838/1840 - died after 1900, and married Robert Latham Cowne, son of Thomas W. Cowne and Susan Latham Cowne, on August 30, 1868. He was a middle-aged bachelor from her old family neighborhood. In 1880, she was probably a widow (marital status blank) and living with her brother, Edward, and her widowed sister, Virginia. In 1900 she's a widow, living with her brother, Frank & Cornelia.
4. Thomas Martin Lomax, Jr., born 1842 - died June 20, 1917, in a Richmond, VA, hospital, aged 80 years. He married Elizabeth “Eliza” Boteler on 6 July 1858 in The National Hotel in Washington, D. C. Eliza was born 1837 and died 1888. Her parents were Joseph Boteler, Jr., and Sally George. They had three sons. All were born and died in Fauquier and are buried at the Bristerburg Farm. They had 18 grandchildren, one of whom was born in 1924. Thomas, Jr. was qualified as an assessor of lands in 1894. He was an agriculturalist in Midland. “Thomas was a casket
bearer at “Josh” Martin’s funeral 29 February 1896. Josh was in the Black Horse Troop with Thomas.” “He was a member of the Board of Elections April 24 1897.” Thomas, Jr. is buried on the Lomax family farm in Bristersburg. “Thomas’s grave does not have a marked headstone. The Lomax family cemetery is ... clearly marked by old boxwood trees and an old iron fence..."
"Another Confederate Veteran has answered the last call. Mr. Thomas M. Lomax, a prominent citizen of Bristersburg section, Fauquier County, was a member of the Black Horse [Company] during the Civil War. [Enlisted 1 October 1862; paroled 4 May 1865 Winchester. Private. Wounded in the Valley of Virginia. He attended a reunion of the vets.] He was a sincere, tractable, Christian gentleman and a most dependable friend. Though of modest mien, he was ever ready to respond to the calls of his country and neighbors ..."
His descendants “still live in the area of Fauquier/
Stafford that has been the Lomax's "stomping ground" for the last two hundred years.”
5. Virginia Lomax was born 1841, married Samuel H. Botts, and died after 1906.
6. Francis “Frank” Jett Lomax was born 15 October 1844. He married Isabella, had two children, then at age 27, on May 21, 1873 in Spotsylvania Co., VA, married Cornelia Josephine Stewart (20), born 1853, Spotsylvania County, VA - d. 1925, d/o Mr. J.L. Stewart & Mrs. H.C. Stewart, and had eight children. He died 20 January 1923. He enlisted 1861 in the 9th VA Cavalry, Company A, Stafford Rangers, and survived the war. He is buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Bealeton, VA.
Georgia's parents, John Coffey Stanford and Isabella "Belle" Lomax had the following four children (only 3 were living by 1900):
1. Marion F. "Forrest" Stanford (1867-1944) #173006627. He and his wife purchased an ante bellum home in Fauquier County in 1913 and were living there in 1937 when interviewed about it. Buried Warrenton, VA.
2. Miss Hattie Lomax Stanford was born on March 9, 1870 in Fauquier County, Virginia. She died of a cerebral hemmorhage due to arterial sclerosis at 7:00 a.m. on January 29, 1941 at the age of 70y, 10m, 20d, at RFD #1, Catlett, Cedar Run (Magisterial District), Fauquier County, Virginia, but her normal residence was Calverton (outside the corporate city limits), Fauquier, VA, where she was buried with Georgia Belle. Hattie never married.
The 1900 census finds Hattie L. Stanford (28) living with her sister Georgia Belle Stanford Bloxton and brother-in-law Conway Peyton Bloxton (30) in Washington, District of Columbia.
In the 1910 census, Hattie Stanford (38, farmer) is listed living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia. At this time, her nephew Roland Stanford (11) was living with her.
The 1920 census lists Hattie L. Stanford (49) living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia. Her nephew Shirley M. Stanford (23) is living with her at the time.
In 1930, Hattie L. Stanford (59, farmer) is living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia. Her brother John T. Stanford (51) is living with her.
The 1940 census lists the family living in Cedar Run, Fauquier, Virginia and includes Hattie L. Stanford (70, farmer), brother John T Stanford (60, farmer), and nephew Roland (41, farmer).
3. GEORGIA BELLE STANFORD (BLOXTON) (1873-1913)
4. John Thomas Stanford, born July 15, 1877, Fauquier, VA. In 1900 at Cedar Run District (south part), Fauquier County, VA, age 22, was married to Laura (23) (divorced prior to 1920) and had two sons: Shirley Martin Stanford, born 24 Nov 1896, in Fauquier County, Virginia, died 25 May 1987, in Stafford, Stafford, Virginia. & Roland Carter Stanford, born 27 Jul 1899, in Virginia, died 31 Dec 1963, in Virginia. He married Mildred Grace LNU in Virginia.
Laura is buried with a gravestone shared with Grace [D. Smith] Rabbitt, b. 20 Nov 1884, Virginia, d. 11 Feb 1965, Loudon County, Virginia. This is Laura's sister...she named one of her children Grace Douglas Stanford. Grace was the widow of Joseph Randolph Rabbitt, b. 21 Jan 1880, Montgomery County, Maryland, d. 1930/1940, District of Columbia.
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