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Julius Preston Alford

Male 1873 - 1962  (89 years)


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  • Name Julius Preston Alford  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Born 21 Jan 1873  Isla, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Gender Male 
    Died 21 Sep 1962  Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 5, 6
    Buried Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 5
    Notes 
    • In her sketch about Lee Smith of Sabine County, Virgie Speights notes that one of his teachers at the one room log school at Beach Grove was J. P Alford, who taught alongside Miss Belle Smith, Clint Arthur, and Miss Mattine Hines. (Speights, Old Timers of Sabine County, p. 26).

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      name: J. Preston Alford
      death date: 21 Sep 1962
      death place: Hemphill, Sabine, Texas
      gender: Male
      race: White
      death age: 89 years
      estimated birth date:
      birth date: 21 Jan 1873
      birthplace: Texas
      marital status: Married
      spouse's name:
      father's name: Burtis Alford
      father's birthplace:
      mother's name: Lizzie Collier
      mother's birthplace:
      occupation: Farmer
      place of residence: Hemphill, Sabine, Texas
      cemetery: Hemphill
      burial place: Hemphill, Texas
      burial date: 22 Sep 1962
      additional relatives:
      film number: 2117116
      digital film number: 4028546
      image number: 2828
      reference number: cn 58153
      Collection: "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," J. Preston Alford, 1962
    Person ID I32675  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Burtis Terry Alford, Sr.,   b. 16 Sep 1845, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Apr 1901, Geneva, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth "Lizzie" Katherine Collier,   b. Abt 1854, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married Abt 1869  Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Family ID F861  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Martha Ella "Mattie" Williams,   b. 26 Jan 1879, Isla, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 May 1972, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 93 years) 
    Married 21 Sep 1894  Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 6
    • "Old Timers of Sabine County, Texas" by Virgie Collier Speights
      September 27, 1962

      J. Preston Alford, age 89 years old, died September 21, 1962 at his home in Hemphill, Texas. It was the sixtieth-eighth wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Alford.

      Mr. Alford, a member of a prominent pioneer family of Sabine County, was a retired farmer. He was married on September 21, 1894 to Miss Ella Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Williams of the Isla community. Mr. and Mrs. Alford were both born within a mile of each other in the Isla community and lived there after their marriage until 1919. At that time they moved to Hemphill where they had lived ever since.

      They had only one child, a daughter, Mrs. Carrie A. J. Neal of Hemphill. Grandsons William Neal of Pineland and G. A. Neal of Hemphill. Great grandsons, Tommy and Bobby Neal of Hemphill and Jimmy Neal of Pineland.

      (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, November 2012)
    Children 
     1. Carra G. "Carrie" Alford,   b. 8 Jun 1895, Isla, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 13 Nov 2012 
    Family ID F6102  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 21 Jan 1873 - Isla, Sabine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 21 Sep 1894 - Sabine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 21 Sep 1962 - Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S327] Dore, Barbara Yancey (RootsLady@rootslady.com) "Southeast Texas Regional Gedcom Project" http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bydore_1, (Dore, Barbara Yancey "Southeast Texas Regional Gedcom Project"; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bydore_1 ; Updated Tue Feb 24 22:17:40 2004 This Gedcom contains many regionally located but sometimes unconnected Southeast Texas persons. Some of the information has been collected during Barbara's past 35 years of family research. Many undocumented families in the area are included. ALWAYS verify!!).

    2. [S60] McCary, Kay P. "Hemphill City Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas" Cemetery Index ; http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/burials/.

    3. [S689] Smith, Janice "Known Descendants of Isham Alford and Anne Ferrell (1755 NC - 1832 GA)" http://www.alfordassociation.org/GENEALOGY/ISH755NC.pdf.

    4. [S308] 1880 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005., (1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ? Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1880. T9, 1,454 rolls. This database is an index to 50 million individuals enumerated in the 1880 United States Federal Census. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, address, occupation, relationship to the head of household, race, sex, age at last birthday, marital status, place of birth, parents? place of birth. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1880 Federal Census.), Census Place Precinct 4, Sabine, Texas Family History Library Film 1255325 NA Film Number T9-1325 Page Number 240D (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S33] FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, (http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/).

    6. [S374] Speights, Virgie "Old Timers of Sabine County, Texas Vignettes of Pioneer Families" (S. Malone, c. 1983), p. 3 (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S434] Toole, Blanche "Sabine County Marriages 1875-1900 1900-1910 Prior to 1875" c. 1983.