Daniel Stanfield

Daniel Alexander Stanfield was a White/Caucasian male, age 72. On January 5, 1914, the longtime town marshal of St. Francis, a small community in Clay County, Arkansas, confronted danger as part of the routine burdens of his post. Born in Maury County, Tennessee, in January 1841, he had settled in St. Francis by the turn of the century and served as its marshal for years, a familiar figure whose headstone would later memorialize that he was “murdered while in discharge of his duty as an office ...

Marshal D. A. Stanfield