Stanford family
Biographical Note
Nehemiah Stanford was born June 6, 1805 in Putnam County, GA. He married Elizabeth Wyatt on August 6, 1829. They had eight children: Thomas, Lycurgus, Eli, Martha, Sarah, Caroline, Adoline, and Virginia. Stanford died November 1, 1889. He has a tombstone at Sumach, GA that read, Here lies Nehemiah Stanford. Born June 6, 1805; died November 1, 1889. Grandson of two noblemen who fought in the Revolutionary War, and were always true to their country. He was a strict adherent to their faith, and always voted the Democratic ticket.
Lycurgus L. Stanford was born December 10, 1831 in Putnam County, GA. He married Maggie Henry in December 1854. They had two children John and William. Educated at Maryville College in Tennessee, Stanford taught mathematics at Milltown Seminary in Alabama. After the death of the principal, he was made Principal of that institution, a position he held until 1857 when he became President of Hamilton Female College. He resigned in 1858 after the death of his wife. Stanford went back to college and graduated with a law degree from Cumberland University in December 1858. He married Margaret Passmore in June 1859.
At the start of the Civil War he enlisted in Company B, 3rd Georgia Calvary. He was captured in the battle of Resaca on May 14, 1864 and imprisoned at Johnson's Island, Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie. He returned home to Georgia in July 1865 to find that his second wife had died in 1862, they had two children Margaret and Eldon.
He married Marietta Walker October 1865; they had two children Lycurgus and Etta. He served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in December 1867. He also served in the state General Assembly in 1877 and 1880. He married Elizabeth Walker in 1882, they had one child James Leland. Lycurgus Stanford died October 5, 1917.
Eli Stanford was born in 1835 in Putnam County, Georgia. He married Tennessee Blair and they had five children: Edgar Rembert, James Nehemiah, Milma Herline, Mollie Elizabeth Stanford, and Tennessee Leola Stanford. He enlisted in Company A of the 37th Georgia Infantry in May 1861 at Spring Place, Georgia. He survived the war and helped purchase land for the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1899. Eli was buried in the Sumach Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery in Spring Place, Georgia.