Margery/Marjorie Lamberson Stafford

Margery/Marjorie Lamberson Stafford

By Karen Cuccinello

This lovely photograph is in the Stamford Village Libraries collection. Margery was not in Stamford very long but she did spend about 20 years there.

She was born 1887 in Dolgeville, NY to Fred and Frances E. (Mitchell) Lamberson. In the 1892 census she and her two brothers Addison and William are living in Manheim, Herkimer County NY. Her father probably died around 1900 as her mother, aged about 42, married Milo S. Wood, age 72, of Stamford in 1903.

January 1907 Stamford Mirror-Recorder- “Miss Marjorie Lamberson, who has been employed by F.M. Andrus at Roxbury as typewriter and stenographer for several months, has been appointed Court stenographer at Delhi, by Judge Grant.”

Margery appears to be living in Delhi and Stamford until about 1916 when she gets married. From the Delaware Gazette newspaper I found out that while in Delhi she took part in two plays and led the Virginia Reel at a Martha Washington Tea.

On July 22, 1916, Margery, age 29, married Irving John Stafford in Stamford. This was a first marriage for both. Irving was a resident of Midland, Michigan, age 26, a chemist at Dow Chemical Co., born in Potsdam, NY and his parents were Edson and Marion (Palmeter?) Stafford. Irving and Margery have one son, Richard, born about 1918 in Michigan. In the 1930 and 1940 census reports they are living in Neenah, Winnebago County Wisconsin where Irving is a superintendent of a paper mill and Margery a housewife. I could not find any further information.

Margery died in 1957 and Irving in 1960. They are both buried in Saint Margaret Cemetery in Neenah, Wisconsin as posted on the BillionGraves Index.

If anyone has any more information on Margery or any of the other people I have written about please email me at karenc@midtel.net.