Alma Stannard
Alma Stannard (maiden name: Simmons) was born around 1840 in New York to Orin and Betsey Simmons. Her father was a farmer who owned $2,000 of real estate and $1,700 of personal property by 1860. She married Dwight Stannard around 1858, and they had at least seven children: Charles, born around 1861; Bessie, born around 1865; Ettie, born around 1871; Cora, born around 1873; Hattie, born around 1876; Ezra, born around 1879; and Emma, born around 1882. They lived in Boonville, New York. Her husband worked as a farm laborer, and she worked as a “domestic.” They moved to Forestport, New York, in the 1880s, and her husband died on April 20, 1916. She applied for a federal pension in May 1916 and eventually received one. She died in Boonville on March 30, 1923.
2038
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(2038)Stannard, Alma ~ Simmons, Alma18401923-03-30
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Civilian
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  • Gender: Female
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 2

  • (6391) [recipient] ~ Ira A. Simmons to Alma Stannard, 9 September 1863
  • (15324) [recipient] ~ Dwight W. Stannard to Alma Stannard, 12 May 1864

People - Records: 2

  • (2038) Stannard, Alma is the [sibling of] (2037) Simmons, Ira A.
  • (2038) Stannard, Alma is the [wife of] (4378) Stannard, Dwight W.

Places - Records: 2

  • (67) [birth] ~ New York
  • (1606) [death] ~ Boonville, Oneida County, New York

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SOURCES

1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, available from Ancestry.com; New York Death Index, 1852-1956, available from Ancestry.com.