Charles & Mary Jane (Lambert) Stallard

LAMBERT, STALLARD, WASHBURNE, FORTMAN

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 2/12/2019 at 10:58:54

Charles Stallard, a native Dubuquer, was born Nov. 1854. At the age of 15, Charles starting doing farm work for his brother, Dan, near Dyersville. Mary Jane Lambert Stallard, born January 1, 1852, in England, came to America as a young woman. She married Charles on Aug. 22, 1877 in Earlville. They lived in Dyersville for a short time before coming to Farley in Jan. 1891.

Charles immediately opened a harness-fixing, making and repairing harnesses. As time passed he took on shoe repair. Mr. Stallard’s shop was in a building no longer standing. The location was on the present 1st Street, on the north side of the Farley State bank where the addition was placed. The family residence was the old Hefner home, now the Mary and David Martin home at 305 4th Avenue N. E. Charles Stallard died March 12, 1930. Mary Jane died Jan. 27, 1938; she is buried next to her husband in Fairview Cemetery.

The Stallard’s had two daughters, Mrs. S. C. Washburne, of Los Angeles, California and Mrs. Henry (Frances) Fortman who cared for her mother in the family home in the later years of her mother’s life. Frances lives from 1882-1980.

"The History of Farley". David Gibson. Welu Printing, Dubuque, IA.,1996