Family: Julius Preston Alford / Martha Ella "Mattie" Williams (F6102)

• Male Julius Preston Alford

  
  

  Birth	21 Jan 1873	Isla, Sabine County, Texas
  Death	21 Sep 1962	Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas
  Burial		Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas
  Marriage	21 Sep 1894  [1, 2]	Sabine County, Texas  [1, 2]
  Father	Burtis Terry Alford, Sr. | F861 Group Sheet
  Mother	Elizabeth "Lizzie" Katherine Collier | F861 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Martha Ella "Mattie" Williams

  
  

  Birth	26 Jan 1879	Isla, Sabine County, Texas
  Death	15 May 1972	Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas
  Burial		Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas
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  Female Carra G. "Carrie" Alford

  
  

  Birth	8 Jun 1895	Isla, Sabine County, Texas
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Burial
  Spouse	Austin Neal | F12498
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• Notes

  Married: "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)

  
  

• Sources

  [S60] McCary, Kay P. "Hemphill City Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas" Cemetery Index ; http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/burials/. [S374] Speights, Virgie "Old Timers of Sabine County, Texas Vignettes of Pioneer Families" (S. Malone, c. 1983), p. 3 (Reliability: 3).