[5][6] Stanley learned to play the guitar and sing in the home and by 1923 (at age 15) went with her father to square dances.

[5] Their home was "a mecca" for early country music near Atlanta, due to her father's prowess as a fiddler.

[4] Of her four July 1924 recordings, two were labeled "Roba Stanley and Bill Patterson" and the other two were "The Stanly Trio".

[4] Her music career ended when she married[4] Frank Ellsworth Baldwin and moved to Florida with him.

[1] She was no longer near a recording studio and her husband did not like her performing in public, so she gave away her guitar.

Additionally, her family listed her birth date as February 11, 1908,[1] which supports the census data.