The Onaga Herald

September 22, 1927

Albert Luther Stallard, son of Albert Galliton and Sarah Stallard, was born August 15, 1837, near Rixeyville, in Culpepper County, Virginia, and died September 15, 1927, at the home of his son, Minor, near Onaga, at the age of 90 years and one month.

As a boy he attended the public schools of his county, When a young man he went to Texas to teach school and was thus engaged at the outbreak of the Civil War.

At the beginning of the war he returned to Virginia, where he cast his lot with the cause of the South. He enlisted in the Fourth Virginia Black Horse Cavalry. As a soldier he served under the direct command of General Stonewall Jackson, General Fitzhugh Lee, General J. E. B. Stuart, all under the general command of General Robert E. Lee.

A noteworthy incident of his army career was the fact that he was a personal courier for Stonewall Jackson on the day Stonewall Jackson's death in battle.

During General Early's last raid up the Shenandoah Valley he was captured by the federal forces and was held a prisoner of war until the time o General Lee's surrender. David Cook was one of the Federal soldiers who took Mr. Stallard prisoner and they were later neighbors, and the best of friends.

Shortly after his honorable discharge from the army he came west to Northwest Missouri, near Platte City, where he engaged in farming, stock raising and school teaching. On account of failing health and disagreeable climatic conditions in Missouri, he removed in 1873 to the plains of Kansas, becoming one of the early pioneers of the state.

On December 18, 1877 he was married to Harriet Elizabeth Humphrey, of Platte City, Missouri, and immediately settled on the George R. Anthony farm, south of Onaga. In 1881 he moved to his present home southwest of Onaga, where he has since resided.

He was the father of nine children, seven sons and two daughters, of whom six sons and one daughter survived him. The surviving members of his family are as follows: one brother, M. Stallard, of Camden Point, Mo.; on daughter, Mrs. William M. Chappel, of Des Moines, Ia.; and six sons: ?. H. Stallard, of Leavenworth, Kans.; R. T. Stallard of Platte City, Mo., J. O. Stallard, of El Reno, Okla.,; Dr. Harvey Stallard, of Chicago, Ill., and Minor Stallard, of Onaga, Mrs. Stallard the wife, one son Albert and one daughter Mary, have passed on before.

Four grandchildren also survive him .

While in Texas, he united with the Baptist church. Soon after coming to Kansas he united with the Onaga Baptist church by letter, where he held his membership until death.

Funeral services were held at the Onaga Baptist church, Saturday afternoon, in charge of Rev. Craig, pastor, Interment was made in the Onaga cemetery.