Charley Stafford

Charley and Edna Stafford nee Crabtree

Charley Clayton⁶ Stafford (William¹, Robert², Andrew³, Daniel⁴Clayton⁵) Born 26 November 1906 in Glen Elder, Mitchell County, Kansas;¹died 13 September 1983 in Englewood, Arapahoe County, Colorado;² buried at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado;³ married Edna Lucille Crabtree 11 August 1931, Wray, Yuma, County, Colorado.⁴

Charley spent most of his youth in Kansas, but the family did not stay in Glen Elder. In 1910, Charley's father was still in the Lansing Penitentiary⁵ and his mother and sisters lived with Thomas N. Higgins in Linn County, Kansas.⁶ Clayton Stafford was released from Lansing later that year and apparently, Grace and the children returned to Glen Elder, Kansas with Clayton Stafford where they continued to live until Grace Stafford died in 1915.⁷ The family tradition concerning the years after Grace's death is that the children were sent by train to live with different relatives, but there is no documentation to confirming this.

The 1920 census reports that Charley lived with the Orville McCoy family in Glen Elder and was listed as their foster son. McCoy's relationship to the Stafford family is unknown.⁸How or why Charley Stafford went to Colorado is not known. It is possible that he went there because his paternal aunt, Sophie Gleason, lived in Yuma County, Colorado. She and her family were there from 1920⁹to the end of their lives.¹⁰

It is in Yuma County that Charley met Miss Edna Lucile Crabtree, daughter of Harry "Elmer" and Edna Crabtree nee Wright.^3,11 They married there on 11 August 1931⁴ and lived there only a short time when they moved to Denver, Colorado so Charley could find work. It was in Denver, Colorado that their only child, Dolores Eileen Stafford, was born on 22 December 1935.^12,13

Charley and Edna settled in Englewood, Arapahoe County, Colorado where they would live all of their lives.¹³ Charley worked for Cary's New and Used Furniture in Denver and Edna worked for Samsonite Luggage also in Denver.¹³

Charley Stafford died on 13 September 1983 at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood^2,3 and was buried at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado.¹³ Edna continued to live in their home until a year or two prior to her death. She died 17 February 2002 in Englewood, Arapahoe County, Colorado.¹² She was buried beside Charley in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Littleton, Colorado.¹²

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¹	Charley Clayton Stafford (521-10-6113), SS-5 form, Application for Account Number, Social Security Administration, Baltimore Maryland 21235.
²	Charley Clayton Stafford entry, Social Security Death Index; downloaded from Ancestry.com on November 2001.
³	Stafford – Crabtree Family Group Sheet received from Linda Hersco, February 2002
⁴	Stafford – Crabtree marriage record (11 August 1931), State of Colorado, Division of Vital Statistics, Marriage Record Report, No. 2135; FHL microfilm publication, film number 1690137E, Roll 89.
⁵	C A Stafford, inmate, 1910 U.S. Census, Leavenworth County, Kansas, population schedule, Lansing State Penitentiary, Delaware Township, ED 84, SD 1, sheet 3B, dwelling not listed, family not listed; National Archives microfilm publication T624, roll 444.
⁶	Thomas N. Higgins household, 1910 U.S. Census, Linn County, Kansas, population schedule, Scott Township, ED 123, SD 2, sheet 5B, dwelling [not stated], family 107; National Archives microfilm publication T624, roll 445.
⁷	Grace Everts Stafford death certificate no. 62560 (1915), Kansas State Board of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Topeka, Kansas.
⁸	Orville McCoy household, 1920 U.S. Census, Mitchell County, Kansas, Glen Elder Township, ED 108, SD 6, sheet 11B dwelling 81, family 81; National Archives microfilm T625, roll 540.
⁹	George Gleason household, 1920 U.S. Census, Yuma County, Colorado, population schedule, Eckley Precinct, ED 275, SD 2, sheet 10A, dwelling 206, family 208; National Archives microfilm publication T625, roll 173.
¹⁰	George H. and Sophie M. Gleason tombstone, Eckley Cemetery, Eckley, Yuma County, Colorado; photographed by Sharlene Miller, 17 April 2006.
¹¹	Elmer H. Crabtree household, 1920 U.S. Census, Yuma County, Colorado, population schedule, Eckley Precinct, ED 275, SD 2, sheet 6B, dwelling 124, family 125; National Archives microfilm publication T625, roll 173.
¹²	Dolores Eileen Stafford funeral card, Crist’s Chapel Hill Mortuary, 6601 South Colorado Boulevard, Littleton, Colorado; in Melvin Miller’s family papers, in author’s possession in April 2007.
¹³	Undated letter from Edna (nee Crabtree) Stafford (deceased in 2002) to Marcy (nee Burge) Volny; photocopy in author’s possession.

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Charley and Edna Stafford
Census	1910 - Linn County, Kansas living in Thomas N. Higgins household
	1920 - Glen Elder, Mitchell County, Kansas living in Orville McCoy household
	1930 - Have not found to date.
Marriage Records	Stafford - Crabtree marriage record report, Division of Vital Statistics, State of Colorado
Deed Records	Have not researched in deed records
Death and Burial	Funeral Card Charles C. Stafford
Death and Burial	Funeral Card Edna Lucile Stafford nee Crabtree
Probate files	Not researched

Charley and Edna Stafford nee Crabtree

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