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Submitted: 7/25/12 • Approved: 1/22/16 • Last Updated: 1/25/16 • R732695-G0-S3
PRIVATE
Company K 11 Missouri Infantry
Civil War Confederate
October 19, 1839 - January 12, 1895
*Obituary
Benton County Democrat
Thursday, January 17, 1895
STANLEY, Elijah B. - Mr. E.B. Stanley, who lived three miles north of Bentonville, after a long and distressing illness produced from cancer of the stomach, passed away as one going into a sweet sleep, on January 12th, 1895, aged 55 years. Mr. Stanley was a citizen of the State of Missouri but after the War Between the States, came to Arkansas and settled in Benton County. In the beginning and during the War Between the States he gave the best days of his young manhood to the cause of the Confederate States Government. In this cause he was true and devoted, proving his devotion and patriotism on many hardly contested battle fields. He served this cause with distinction and marked bravery as a volunteer in the Eighth Missouri infantry, commanded, by Col. Burns, Co. K, Parson's Brigade, Price's Division. Mr. Stanley was an industrious, thrifty farmer, a popular man in his neighborhood, and a man who merited the confidence of all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. Mr. Stanley bore his long affliction with patience and that Christian fortitude characteristic of the good. He leaves a wife and five children, all girls. All who had the pleasure of his acquaintance knew him to be an affectionate husband and a kind and loving father. He was a member of the Missionary Baptist church. The sympathy of the entire community is bestowed upon the family.
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Bentonville Sun
Saturday, January 19, 1895
Elijah B. Stanley died at his home three miles north of Bentonville, Jan. 12, 1895. Mr. Stanley was born in Randolph County, Ark. Oct. 19, 1839; lived many years in Jasper County, Mo. and had been a resident of Benton County nearly thirty years. He had been an unassuming member of the Baptist church since he was sixteen years old and in all the relations of life had been a good man. He did to others as he would be done by and leaves no enemies but many sorrowing friends. His wife and six sorrowing daughters mourn his loss.
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