Daughter of Newton Jasper Chunn and Nancy Jane Randle-Chunn, Emma Lou Ila Chunn was born on Oct. 22, 1891 in Mississippi.

On November 28, 1915, Emma Lou Ila Chunn (age 24) married George Pinkney Stanford (age 36).¹⁾ George Pinkney Stanford was the son of Isaiah S. Stanford²⁾ and Missouri Hand Jernigan-Stanford.³⁾

Emma Lou Ila Chunn was George Pinkney Stanford's second wife. He had married his first wife, Fannie Jane Bullock (July 14, 1885 - Jan. 5, 1915),⁴⁾ on November 3, 1903. George Pinkney Stanford and Fannie Jane Bullock-Stanford had the following children:

a sister, Geraldine Stanford Goudelock; three brothers, Marlin Stanford, Wildred Stanford and G.P. Stanford; two half-sisters, Lillian Graves and Hermie Mercer.

Emma Lou Ila Chunn and George Pinkney Stanford had the following children:

1. George Pinkney Stanford, Jr. (Sept. 9, 1916 - Jan. 1, 1989)⁵⁾
2. Sally Ela Stanford-Davis (Nov. 8, 1919 in Ripley (Tippah County) Mississippi - Jan. 6, 2008 in Ripley (Tippah County), Mississippi)⁶⁾

Emma Lou Ila Chunn-Stanford died on Oct. 2, 1980.⁷⁾