Stansbury Family
EZEKIEL STANSBURY
Ezekiel STANSBURY, a farmer, was born ca. 1759 in Virginia. When he was age 29 he married Ester KREMER on August 19, 1788 in Frederick County, Virginia. By 1805 the couple had settled in Tennessee between the borders of Greene and Washington Counties. Ezekiel STANSBURY , died in Greene County Tennessee in 1814 or 1815.
Ester KREMER was born December 5, 1761 in Virginia . Ezekiel and Ester STANSBURY had fifteen or seventeen children. Six of their children left Tennessee by 1830 to settle in the area of Saybrook, Illinois. The children who moved to Chaney’s Grove Twp. were: EZEKIEL JR., EDWARD, ISSAAC, ABRAM, ELIZABETH and ESTER. A seventh child, MARY, joined her siblings in Illinois in 1849. ABRAM made a trip to Tennessee about 1837 to get his widowed mother and bring her to Saybrook. ESTER was 76 years old at the time she moved to Illinois.
Ester lived to be 88 years old. She passed away on April 7, 1850. Ester is buried in Old Township Cemetery which is located on the edge of Saybrook.
If you are planning on visiting Old Township Cemetery chances are that you will not be able to identify the STANSBURY graves as most are completely faded from years of rough weather.
The STANSBURY families were among the first settlers to the area of Chaney’s Grove . Several of Ezekiel and Ester STANSBURY’S grandchildren would move to Santa Anna Twp (Farmer City Illinois). Chances are that if you had relations in early McLean and then DeWitt Counties, Illinois, your families could be related to the STANBURY’S, as each of these early settlers had very large families.
For more complete information on this family and their descendants please e-mail me at NathPatt@aol.com. There is an excellent book that has just been published, Ten Generations Of Myers In America which includes many histories of the early settlers of DeWitt County Illinois. I will be glad to look and see if your descendants are mentioned in the book and then tell you how you can order the book if you would like to have one for yourself.
Submitted by: Nathalie C. Patton