Some of his descendants, many of whom still live in Cochise County, prefer to use "Jay Hugh", which was the name put on his replaced tombstone in the El Dorado Cemetery.

However, the earliest known legal documents written by Stafford prove that his name was originally spelled "Jehu", after the prophet in the Hebrew Bible.

He spent the next five years at various posts in the Indian Territory, including Forts Towson, Arbuckle and Washita, before leaving the army to travel around the country.

[1] Ja Hu first went to Texas, then on to Arkansas and Kansas Territory, marrying his first wife Dorothy Francis Hicks, possibly in Illinois.

[1] In 1879, Ja Hu was in the town of Manti, Utah, where he met a Danish-born Mormon pioneer named Christoffer Madsen.

According to family tradition, Ja Hu met the twelve-year-old Pauline in the spring of 1880, when she arrived at his cabin to get warm, after herding cattle barefoot.

He was soon joined by others, including the 10th Cavalry, which established a small camp in the canyon in 1885, and the family of Neil Erickson, which settled just to the west of the Stafford Homestead in 1887.

Stafford's garden was large and productive, allowing him to sell his produce to the soldiers at nearby Fort Bowie and at Camp Bonita, as well as neighboring settlers.

On one occasion, Ja Hu had to shoot and kill a male jaguar that attacked one of his horses and which measured 6 feet and 8 inches in length.

One day in May 1890, Ja Hu was headed to a small corner in Bonita Canyon about three-quarters of a mile from his home that held his horses, so as to make a trip to Fort Bowie with a load of vegetables.