WILLIAM STANCHFIELD.— Mr. Stanchfield was a native of Maine, born in the year 1820, was married to Mary Jackins, in Bangor, Maine, in 1840, and came to Stillwater in 1846, where he engaged in keeping a hotel on Main street, which was burned[Pg 68] while he was in charge. Mr. Stanchfield died in 1850, leaving a widow who subsequently married Harvey Wilson, and an infant daughter, who became, years after, the wife of George Davis.
Excerpt from book Fifty Years in the Northwest by W.H.C.Folsom, published in 1888, pp. 67-68.
WILLIAM STANCHFIELD.— Mr. Stanchfield was a native of Maine, born in the year 1820, was married to Mary Jackins, in Bangor, Maine, in 1840, and came to Stillwater in 1846, where he engaged in keeping a hotel on Main street, which was burned[Pg 68] while he was in charge. Mr. Stanchfield died in 1850, leaving a widow who subsequently married Harvey Wilson, and an infant daughter, who became, years after, the wife of George Davis.
Excerpt from book Fifty Years in the Northwest by W.H.C.Folsom, published in 1888, pp. 67-68.
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The cemetery has no burial records for William Stanchfield. It is likely that he was moved from one of the pioneer cemeteries to Fairview in the 1870s and 1880s.
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