Albert Stansbury

(son of Charles Gorsuch Stansbury and Gulaelma Cox)

was born 1804 in Baltimore County, MD

and died 03 Apr 1849 in Vermillion Bayou, LA


He married Elizabeth Ann Dugan on 04 May 1826 in Maryland

NOTES FORM MIKE AND HELEN EDER
THANKS!
"Albert and Eliza Dugan Stansbury came to Louisiana from Maryland.

They lived just south of Perry, LA (Vermillion Parish).
Vermilion Parish (Paroisse de Vermillon) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
The parish was created in 1844.
Indigenous peoples lived in the area for thousands of years, from different cultures.
By historic times, the Chitimacha and Atakapa inhabited the area and were the American Indians encountered by Spanish and French explorers and settlers.
The tribes' numbers were drastically reduced as a result of exposure to European diseases to which they had no immunity.
French, Spanish, enslaved Africans, and French-Canadians from Acadia expelled after the Seven Years' War won by Great Britain, had all entered the area by the end of the 18th century.
As the population became mostly Cajun, the primary language was French for years.
In the mid- to late 19th century, they were joined by European Americans; immigrants from Italy, recruited to work on the plantations, as well as Jewish immigrants from Germany and eastern Europe,[why?] who tended to settle in towns and become merchants.

Vermilion Parish is part of the Lafayette, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Albert and Eliza Dugan Stansbury came to Louisiana from Maryland.
They lived just south of Perry, LA (Vermillion Parish). The home place is known today as the Summerfield Stansbury Place.
It is thought to be the oldest structure in the parish."-- newspaper clipping as quoted by Mary Lou Stroud in the Stansbury Society Newsletter, Spring 1983,p. 4.

The Rice Journal (c. 1950) under the heading History and Progress -
On a Vermillion farm - gives information about the Summerfield Stansbury home.
The 1850, 1860 and 1880 censuses list widow of Albert Stansbury (Eliza) as born in Maryland and gives names of children.

There are records of the Maryland Stansburys in "Southwest Louisiana Records" by Rev. Donald J. Hebert (Hebert Publications, P.O. Box 31, Eunice, LA.
He has a series of volumes (about 20) dating from 1756. They contain birth-baptism-marriages and death records from Catholic and non-Catholic churches and civil courthouses in Southwest Louisiana.

After moving [in 1819] to Louisiana with his father, Charles, Albert moved on to Vermilion Parish.
In Feb of 1830 he purchased land just south of Perry, La. and built an eleven room house.
Using slave labor he cut the timber for the house from the land and made the bricks on the site.
Albert raised sugar cane and had a sugar mill on the east side of Vermilion Bayou.
He kept around 300 acres planted in sugar cane and owned 50 to 60 slaves.
The house and land passed to Eliza Ann Dugan Stansbury, widow, by succession dated Sep 26, 1857.
The house and land is owned today by the Schriefer family, but is still known as the Stansbury Place.
--Mary Lou Stroud Letter 8/18/2000 p. 6

The home place is known today as the Summerfield Stansbury Place.

It is thought to be the oldest structure in the parish."-- newspaper clipping as quoted by Mary Lou Stroud in the Stansbury Society Newsletter, Spring 1983,p. 4.

The Rice Journal (c. 1950) under the heading History and Progress -
On a Vermillion farm - gives information about the Summerfield Stansbury home.

The 1850, 1860 and 1880 censuses list widow of Albert Stansbury (Eliza) as born in Maryland and gives names of children.
There are records of the Maryland Stansburys in "Southwest Louisiana Records" by Rev. Donald J. Hebert (Hebert Publications, P.O. Box 31, Eunice, LA.
He has a series of volumes (about 20) dating from 1756. They contain birth-baptism-marriages and death records from Catholic and non-Catholic churches and civil courthouses in Southwest Louisiana.

After moving [in 1819] to Louisiana with his father, Charles, Albert moved on to Vermilion Parish.
In Feb of 1830 he purchased land just south of Perry, La. and built an eleven room house.
Using slave labor he cut the timber for the house from the land and made the bricks on the site.
Albert raised sugar cane and had a sugar mill on the east side of Vermilion Bayou.
He kept around 300 acres planted in sugar cane and owned 50 to 60 slaves.
The house and land passed to Eliza Ann Dugan Stansbury, widow, by succession dated Sep 26, 1857.
The house and land is owned today by the Schriefer family, but is still known as the Stansbury Place.
--Mary Lou Stroud Letter 8/18/2000 p. 6


Children of Albert Stansbury and Elizabeth Ann Dugan are:

Eliza Stansbury, b. Abt. 1830, d. date unknown.
She married George Southerland on Abt. 1850

Ann Stansbury, b. Abt. 1831, d. date unknown.
She married Charles Davis on Abt. 1851

Wesley Stansbury, b. Abt. 1832, d. date unknown
NOTES
Stansbury Society Newsletter, Spring 1983, p. 2
has a Robert, but no Wesley.
Could the name be Robert Wesley or Wesley Robert?
Needs checking.
Seeking to place Wesley Stansbury who m. Charlotte Johnson from Tenn.
Their son, Carlton Stansbury was b. Farmer City, DeWitt Co. IL, March 28, 1858.
He moved to So. Idaho in the early 1900's and d. at Twin Falls, Idaho, Jan 26, 1928.
Their son, Murrell Zena Stansbury, b. Feb 1896.
Only child.
Father of our correspondent -- Dr. Bruce E. Stansbury, DDS, 5207 Ozark, San Antonio, TX 78201.
From Stansbury Society Newsletter, Spring 1983 p. 53.
Could this be this Wesley?
Needs checking.
killed in an accident at a young age.
--Mary Lou Stroud ltr. 8-18-2000, p. 8

Sallie Stansbury, b. Abt. 1835, d. date unknown.
She married Isaac Jetton on Abt. 1855

Summerfield Stansbury,
b. 26 Jun 18353437, d. 03 Mar 1897
Summerfield served our country in the Civil War. ---Charles Burke...and related familiesunpubp. 59
My great-grandfather, Summerfield Stansbury, was a farmer and a Methodist preacher.
--- Mary Lou Stroud as quoted in Stansbury Society Newsletter, Spring 1983, p. 4.
[Summerfield and Rachel Stakes Stansbury] lived in the family home built by his father, Albert, Sr.
He was also a sugar cane farmer.
Just after 1876 Summerfield and his brother Uriah were in partnership in the plantation.
On April 4, 1891 Summerfield bought out Uriah's share and sold a portion to Henry J. Stansbury, his son.
On Feb 13, 1897 Gustave Godchaux acquired 218 acres, buildings and improvements in a foreclosure on a mortgage against Summerfield Stansbury and Henry J. Stansbury. Summerfield Stansbury died on March 3, 1897, about three weeks after the loss of his home. -- Mary Lou Stroud letter of Aug 18, 2000 p. 8

Robert Dugan Stansbury, b. Abt. 1836, d. 01 May 1874
He married Philomene Dugan Tauzin on Abt. 1856
Kept son, Albert's children for awhile after Corinne's death in 1874.
Children went with Corinne's sister, Laura, to Galveston after Laura married Walter Laperousa.
--Mary Lou Stroud ltr 8-18-2000 p. 8
Children of Robert Dugan Stansbury and Philomene Dugan Tauzin are:
Thomas Murat Stansbury, b. 24 Jun 1870, d. date unknown.
Marie Stansbury, b. 17 May 1874, d. date unknown.
Albert Joseph Stansbury, b. 17 May 1874, d. date unknown.

Uriah Stansbury, b. 1838, d. date unknown.
married (1) Celestine Swain on Abt. 1858
He married (2) Sarah Smith on Abt. 1861
Children of Uriah Stansbury and Celestine Swain are:
Leonard Stansbury, b. Abt. 1859, d. date unknown.
Children of Uriah Stansbury and Sarah Smith are:
Emma Stansbury, b. Abt. 1862, d. date unknown.
George Stansbury, b. Abt. 1863, d. date unknown.
Laura Stansbury, b. Abt. 1864, d. date unknown.
Elizabeth Stansbury, b. Abt. 1865, d. date unknown.
Wealthy Stansbury, b. Abt. 1866, d. date unknown.
Marguerite Stansbury, b. Abt. 1867, d. date unknown.
Bessie Stansbury, b. Abt. 1868, d. date unknown.
James Stansbury, b. Abt. 1869, d. date unknown.
Daisy Stansbury, b. Abt. 1870, d. date unknown.
Russell Stansbury, b. Abt. 1871, d. date unknown.
John Stansbury, b. Abt. 1872, d. date unknown

Emeline Stansbury, b. 1845 d. date unknown.
She married Elijah Ewing on Abt. 1865

Margaret Stansbury, b. 1845, d. date unknown.
She married William Acy on Abt. 1865

Albert Stansbury, Jr, b. 1847 d. date unknown.
He married Florestine Feray on Abt. 1870
children of Albert Stansbury, Jr and Florestine Feray are:
Oliver Stansbury, b. 26 Jan 1871 d. date unknown.
Joseph Leon Stansbury, b. 05 Jul 1873, d. date unknown.
Marie Ula Stansbury, b. 07 Aug 1875, d. date unknown.
Lily Victoria Stansbury, b. 07 Nov 1879, d. date unknown.
Francis Uriah Stansbury, b. 29 May 1882, d. 1959, Louisiana
Amie Alice Stansbury, b. 05 Sep 1886, d. date unknown.
Victoria Zettie Stansbury, b. 03 Apr 1887 d. date unknown.
Martin Stansbury, b. 1890 d. date unknown.