General Leroy Augustus Stafford: His forebears and descendants
by George Mason Graham Stafford
Category: British Americans

William Stafford emigrated from England in 1622 and settled in Virginia. He married Frances Mason ca. 1640. He later died ca. 1654/5. One of their descendants, Leroy Augustus Stafford (1822-1864), son of Leroy and Elizabeth Susan Calliham Stafford, was born near Cheneyville, Louisiana. He married Sarah Catharine Wright, daughter of Jesse Durastus Wright and Sarah Robert Grimball, in 1843.