Individual Details
Irl K. Stanton
(22 Jul 1892 - 30 Jun 1944)
"Via" Stanton Cooper, "Garfield County-The Golden Years", vol II, pg 410-411:
Irl Stanton came to Montana via Upton, Wyoming from Ford, Kansas with his
mother and father, Mrs. and Mrs. T.K. Stanton and family, in 1914.
Irl went into the U.S. Army about four months before the November 11 [1918]
Armistice was signed. When he was mustered out he came to Kansas and we were
married February 12, 1919. We got to Miles City, Montana sometine in March.
There had been a big snowstorm and there were no stages between Miles City and
Jordan for three days. Howard Reeve agreed to take Irl and I and Earl
Campbell, also just released from the Army, in a Ford touring car, along with
extra parts for the other stages, and start for Jordan. The first day we made
it to Smith's halfway place. The next day we got to the Brackett place after
dark.
The men shoveled through many snow drifts. A man with a team had to pull us
in from Red Buttes. The next morning it was 16 degrees below zero. We started
out for Jordan in a wide-tread wagon. The narrow-tread trail was tough for a
wide-tread wagon, but we finally got to Jordan about 1 p.m. Dad had come to
Jordan to meet us. Got home about midnight by mules on a "pung."
Dances, dinners and baseball in the summer were our only kinds of
recreation. In later years radios were shared with our neighbors.
Irl passed away in 1944. We had one boy, Glenn, and one girl, Dora
(Price-Jahnke). Also have 11 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. In
1956, I remarried to P.R. "Curly" Cooper. He had 9 children and several
grandchildren.
MILITARY: Pvt. 166 Depot Brig, Montana
CEMETERY-BIRTH-DEATH-MILITARY: Headstone Inscription of Irl Stanton; Butte
Creek Cemetery; Copied 1995 by Nancy Hawkinson.
Irl Stanton came to Montana via Upton, Wyoming from Ford, Kansas with his
mother and father, Mrs. and Mrs. T.K. Stanton and family, in 1914.
Irl went into the U.S. Army about four months before the November 11 [1918]
Armistice was signed. When he was mustered out he came to Kansas and we were
married February 12, 1919. We got to Miles City, Montana sometine in March.
There had been a big snowstorm and there were no stages between Miles City and
Jordan for three days. Howard Reeve agreed to take Irl and I and Earl
Campbell, also just released from the Army, in a Ford touring car, along with
extra parts for the other stages, and start for Jordan. The first day we made
it to Smith's halfway place. The next day we got to the Brackett place after
dark.
The men shoveled through many snow drifts. A man with a team had to pull us
in from Red Buttes. The next morning it was 16 degrees below zero. We started
out for Jordan in a wide-tread wagon. The narrow-tread trail was tough for a
wide-tread wagon, but we finally got to Jordan about 1 p.m. Dad had come to
Jordan to meet us. Got home about midnight by mules on a "pung."
Dances, dinners and baseball in the summer were our only kinds of
recreation. In later years radios were shared with our neighbors.
Irl passed away in 1944. We had one boy, Glenn, and one girl, Dora
(Price-Jahnke). Also have 11 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. In
1956, I remarried to P.R. "Curly" Cooper. He had 9 children and several
grandchildren.
MILITARY: Pvt. 166 Depot Brig, Montana
CEMETERY-BIRTH-DEATH-MILITARY: Headstone Inscription of Irl Stanton; Butte
Creek Cemetery; Copied 1995 by Nancy Hawkinson.
Events
| Birth | 22 Jul 1892 | ||||
| Marriage | 13 Feb 1919 | , Kansas - Alma E. "Via" Hebrew | |||
| Death | 30 Jun 1944 | ||||
| Burial | , Garfield, Montana, Butte Creek Cemetery |
Families
| Spouse | Alma E. "Via" Hebrew (1896 - ) |
| Child | Glenn Stanton |
| Child | Dora Stanton |
| Father | Thomas K. "T.K." Stanton (1868 - ) |
| Mother | Margaret E. "Ellen" Guffey (1872 - ) |
| Sibling | Ebert Montgomery Stanton (1903 - ) |
| Sibling | Ida Stanton |
| Sibling | Hattie Stanton |
| Sibling | Ray Stanton ( - 1969) |
| Sibling | Niles W. Stanton (1909 - 1968) |