Notes for Naomi Kathryn STANLEY: The following letter was received from Naomi Stanley Anderson, one of Byron's daughters. The writer has talked by telephone several times with his other daughter, Mary Stanley Emmett.
I appreciate your efforts in getting the Stanley History in print. Hopefully you will pursue stories and historic facts from my aunt Eunice Robinson (Aunt Gib), Joseph Walter Stanley's daughter, and Wilma Steed, my father's double first cousin. I have one of my grandfather's Bibles. Here is some information that appears in it:
Joseph Walter Stanley. Born 9/25/1877. Died 6/2/1964. married 12/25/1904 to
Roxie Virginia McGhee. Born 3/15/1886. Died 4/20/1965.
I remember stories being told about hiding apples in the attic. When the Yankees came, they smelled them. My aunts could tell you funny stories about my Dad, and a few about J. Walt. I remember my grandfather with happy thoughts.
As you would imagine, J. Walt was a pillar of the community. He helped build Fairview Methodist Church. He farmed, had a syrup mill, and raised chickens.
My father, Byron, donated the land on which the church clubhouse was built. He ran the General Store and bought produce in Atlanta for all the grocery stores in Centre. He also sold chickens to packing plants in Atlanta. It kept many families in money through the winter I will tell you that long story later.
As for my family, we have moved around. My husband, Andy, was a marine pilot for the first five years of marriage. He served for eight years and got out in 1964 as a Captain. He has worked for United Airlines for the past twenty-three years as a pilot - and finally made Captain there, too!
I have taught school and coached swim teams since college.
As for dates …
Naomi Kathryn (Stanley) Anderson - born 10/18/1933 in Centre, Alabama. Graduated East Tennessee State University in 1957. Taught school in Little Creek, Virginia, where I met Andy. Was married 5/25/1959 in Oceana, Virginia
Hugh Francis Anderson - born 3/11/1934 in Hamden, Connecticut. Graduated Colby College in Waterville, Maine 1956. He was based on the USS Coral Sea as a A4-D pilot in the early sixties.
Children:
Beth Ellen (Anderson) Uberseder - born 6/18/1960 at Cherry Point Marine Air Station in North Carolina. Graduated Wake Forest 1982. She does heart research with monkeys at Momau Gray Hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Married 4/25/1984 to Fredrich Hans Uberseder born 1959 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He is employed by A. T. & T. they live in Winston-Salem.
The family was stationed at Eltoro Marine Air Station from 1961 to 1964.
Kathryn Lee Anderson - born 10/2/1962 in Orange County, California. Graduated University of North Carolina 1986. She is employed as a physiologist at Rutgers University.
Robert Michael Anderson - born 11/12/1963 in orange County, California. He is a student at Old Dominion University in Virginia.
We moved to Flemington, New Jersey where we lived for eighteen years.
Jody Lynn Anderson - born 7/2/1967 in Flemington. She is a student at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
We moved to Elizabeth City, North Carolina in 1983, where we plan to retire. I coach the Elizabeth City Aquatic Club, a USS Team. I also teach swimming at local College of the Albemarle. Andy commutes from Norfolk to Chicago as a captain of a 727.
Many years ago I left Alabama to get out of the I cotton patch'. Now we live in a nice house surrounded by a real cabbage patch. Just can't win . . .
More About Naomi Kathryn STANLEY: Residence: 1986, Resides in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
More About Naomi Kathryn STANLEY and Hugh Francis ANDERSON: Marriage: May 25, 1959, Oceana, VA.
Children of Naomi Kathryn STANLEY and Hugh Francis ANDERSON are:
Naomi Kathryn STANLEY (b. October 18, 1933)
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