George W. Staley
George W. Staley, son of John and Catharine Staley, was born in Shelby County, Aug. 29, 1841. His minority days were spent on a farm. and he has made farming his principal vocation through life. On the 18th of August, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, 20th O. V. I., served until Sept. 8, 1862, when he was discharged from the service on account of disability, and returned to his home in Shelby County. Dec. 2, 1863, he was elected and commissioned as Captain of Company F, 2d regiment of Ohio militia, and served as such until the disorganization of the company. On the 3d of Nov. 1864, he married Miss Sarah C. Erven, daughter of James and Lucretia Erven, who was born in the State of Indiana Dec. 21, 1841, and came to Shelby County with her parents in 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Staley settled on the farm in section 31, Jackson Township, where they have since resided. They have a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters. In the spring of 1881 he was elected as one of the trustees of Jackson Township, was re-elected in April, 1882, and is now filling the office. Jan. 13, 1877, he was licensed and approved as a preacher of the gospel in the United Brethren Church, and after four years of hard study and close application to his books, he was ordained a minister of the gospel in the U. B. Church, and is now eligible to election of an elder in the church.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883