Husband Wesley Mathias Stanford 1 2
Born: 15 Mar 1846 - Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 1 2
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Died: 8 Apr 1923 2
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Father: Abraham Stanford (1817-1882) 3
Mother: Susannah A. Domer (1826-1893) 3
Marriage: 2 Aug 1870 1
Wife Rosa Anna Weimer
AKA: Rose Weimer 2
Born: 3 Mar 1845 - Stark Co, OH 2
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Died: 27 Oct 1919 2
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Children
1 F Orpha Blanche Stanford 2
Born: 26 Apr 1871 - Beach City, Stark Co, OH
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Spouse: Frank S. Becker ( - ) 2
Marr: 22 May 1895
2 M Vincent W. Stanford 2 4
Born: 17 Dec 1862 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 4
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Spouse: May Wiest ( - ) 4
Marr: 13 Mar 1895 4
3 M Abraham Leroy Stanford 5
Born: 27 Nov 1876 - Homeworth, Columbiana Co, OH
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Spouse: Mary Hart ( - ) 5
4 F Zella Corine "Zell" Stanford 5
Born: 20 Jun 1878 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
5 F Laura Eva Stanford 5
Born: 2 Oct 1881 - Johnstown, Cambria Co, PA
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Spouse: William S. Gorsuch ( - ) 5
6 F Mina Grace Stanford 5
Born: 8 Sep 1887 - Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co, OH
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Died: May 1972
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Spouse: Claude W. Batdorf ( - ) 5
General Notes: Husband - Wesley Mathias Stanford
BISHOP W. M. STANFORD, was born in Rockland township, Venango county, Pennsylvania. Being a farmer's son he was raised to hard work on the farm till he was twenty years of age, and got but from three to four months schooling in a year. When he was eighteen years of age he began teaching in the winter season, till his twenty-fifth year. He made his money in the winter by teaching, and spent it in the summer attending school, first at Greensburg Seminary, Summit County, Ohio, from the spring of 1865 to the fall of 1866, and then at Mount Union College, Stark County, Ohio, until the spring of 1871, when he graduated in the scientific and commercial courses. Nearly one year before his graduation, he was united in marriage with Miss Rosa A. Weimer, of the southern part of Stark County, Ohio, and then, with his wife, taught a graded school of two departments the following winter in Osnaburg, Ohio. In the spring of 1872 he entered the Pittsburg Conference of the Evangelical Association, and was sent for his first year in the ministry as a missionary to Franklin, Venango County, Pennsylvania. Here he remained three years. His next two years were spent at Homeworth, Ohio, where, in connection with his pastorate, he pursued the study of Greek and German again in his alma mater. He next spent a most successful three years' pastorate in Pittsburgh; thence for two years in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and was then called to Cleveland, Ohio, as associate editor of the official English church organ, the Evangelical Messenger. He remained on this paper for over six years. The next spring he again took a pastorate in Canton, Ohio. In about eighteen months was elected as editor and publisher of an independent church paper, known as the Evangelical, printed at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which paper he conducted most successfully during the stormy years of 1890 and 1891, when, at the General Conference in Philadelphia, in the fall of 1891, he was elected to the Episcopacy, continuing until the special General Conference in the fall of 1894, held in Naperville, Illinois, when he was re-elected to said office for a term of four years. This was the first General Conference of the American wing of the church, constituting about one-half of the whole of this country, and at which conference a new discipline was made and adopted, and a new name assumed, viz.: The United Evangelical Church. During the course of his pastoral and editorial life, Bishop Stanford served six years as the secretary of his conference, and was sent for seven years as a delegate to the General Board of Missions. He was also a member of the General Conference of 1883, 1887, 1891 and 1894.
Mrs. Rosa A. Stanford, wife of the bishop, maiden name Weimer, was born in the southern part of Stark County, Ohio, of German parentage. [CBEDC, 277]