Birth: Dec. 20, 1816
Death: Jun. 20, 1883
Another wife: Lutitia Chappell Married May 1854 
Spouse: Rebecca F Gaines Stanley (1831 - 1851)
Children:
  Fatima Stanley Freeman (1850 - 1876)
  Mary Pallotine Stanley (1855 - 1879)
  Virginia Lutitia Stanley (1862 - 1864)
  John Benjamin Stanley (1876 - 1880)
Inscription: "Born Clark County, AL"
Burial:
Jasper Memorial Cemetery
Jasper
Walker County
Alabama, USA

• Married: 30 JAN 1850 ^{5 6}

• Married: 31 MAY 1854 ^{7 6}

1. Abbrev: Find A Grave
   Title: Jim Tipton, "Find A Grave," database, Jim Tipton, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/index.html: accessed ), .
   Repository:
   Name: RAS Private Collection (from compiled online database)
   
   Quality: 2
   Text: Birth: Dec. 20, 1816
   Death: Jun. 20, 1883
   Another wife: Lutitia Chappell Married May 1854 
   Spouse: Rebecca F Gaines Stanley (1831 - 1851)
   Children:
     Fatima Stanley Freeman (1850 - 1876)
     Mary Pallotine Stanley (1855 - 1879)
     Virginia Lutitia Stanley (1862 - 1864)
     John Benjamin Stanley (1876 - 1880)
   Inscription: "Born Clark County, AL"
   Burial:
   Jasper Memorial Cemetery
   Jasper
   Walker County
   Alabama, USA
2. Abbrev: U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
   Title: Ancestry.com, "U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970," database, Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/: accessed ), ; citing Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls..
   Page: accessed, downloaded; 8 August 2012; SAR Membership Number: 81845.
   Quality: 3
3. Abbrev: 1850 United States Federal Census, Population Schedule; NARA Microfilm Publication M432
   Title: 1850 United States Federal Census.
   Note:
   
   
   Repository:
   Name: Ancestry.com
   Provo, Utah
   USA
   Note:
   (downloaded digital image)
   
   Page: Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: District 12, Walker, Alabama; Roll: M432_16; Page: 300A; Image: 323.
   Quality: 3
4. Abbrev: Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records
   Title: ; United States Bureau of Land Management "General Land Office Records," digital images, U S Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ : accessed ).
   Repository:
   Name: RAS Private Collection (from compiled online database)
   
   Page: David L Stovall/William L Stanley land record; accessed, downloaded; 8 August 2012
   Quality: 3
   Text: Land Patent Details
   Accession Nr: AL3890__.282     Document Type: State Volume Patent     State: Alabama     Issue Date: 12/1/1859     Cancelled: No
   
   Names On Document   Miscellaneous Information
   STOVALL, DAVID L,
   STANLEY, WILLIAM L   Land Office: Huntsville
     US Reservations: No
     Mineral Reservations: No
     Tribe: ---
     Militia: ---
     State In Favor Of: ---
   Military Rank: ---   Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
    
   Document Numbers   Survey Information
   Document Nr: 29261   Total Acres: 79.88
   Misc. Doc. Nr: ---   Survey Date: ---
   BLM Serial Nr: AL NO S/N   Geographic Name: ---
   Indian Allot. Nr: ---   Metes/Bounds: No
    
   Land Descriptions
   State Meridian Twp - Rng Aliquots Section Survey # County
   ALHuntsville014S - 008WNE¼NW¼25 Walker
   ALHuntsville014S - 008WNW¼NE¼25 Walker
5. Abbrev: 1850 United States Federal Census, Population Schedule; NARA Microfilm Publication M432
   Title: 1850 United States Federal Census.
   Note:
   
   
   Repository:
   Name: Ancestry.com
   Provo, Utah
   USA
   Note:
   (downloaded digital image)
   
   Page: Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: District 12, Walker, Alabama; Roll: M432_16; Page: 300A; Image: 323.
6. Abbrev: Stanley and Kindred Families
   Title: Florence John Guttery, Stanley and Kindred Families (Jasper, Alabama: n.p., 1964).
   Repository:
   Name: RAS Private Collection (reproduction of original document)
7. Abbrev: Miles Chappell Estate Papers
   Title: Fayette County, Alabama, Fayette Co., AL. Probate Court Records - Book 6 - 1890-1909, ; "Fayette Co., AL. Probate Court Records - Book 6 - 1890-1909," transcribed copy, Anne Chappell, Anne Chappell's Genealogy Pages (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genealogy/achappell/miles_estate.htm: accessed ).
   Page: "Lutitia Stanley widow of William Stanley decd..."; accessed, copies; 28 April 2011; transcribed copy of original document