Julius Preston Alford

1873 - 1962  (89 years)

• Name	Julius Preston Alford  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Birth	21 Jan 1873	Isla, Sabine County, Texas   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Sep 1962	Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas   [2, 3, 5, 6]
  Burial	Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas   [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). https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDFP-5HL 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 d. 13 Apr 1901, Geneva, Sabine County, Texas (Age 55 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth "Lizzie" Katherine Collier,   b. Abt 1854, Mississippi d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt 1869	Sabine County, Texas   [7]
  Family ID	F861	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martha Ella "Mattie" Williams,   b. 26 Jan 1879, Isla, Sabine County, Texas d. 15 May 1972, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	21 Sep 1894	Sabine County, Texas   [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 d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F6102	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Nov 2012

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 21 Jan 1873 - Isla, Sabine County, Texas Marriage - 21 Sep 1894 - Sabine County, Texas Death - 21 Sep 1962 - Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Burial - - Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [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!!). [S60] McCary, Kay P. "Hemphill City Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas" Cemetery Index ; http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/burials/. [S689] Smith, Janice "Known Descendants of Isham Alford and Anne Ferrell (1755 NC - 1832 GA)" http://www.alfordassociation.org/GENEALOGY/ISH755NC.pdf. [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). [S33] FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, (http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/). [S374] Speights, Virgie "Old Timers of Sabine County, Texas Vignettes of Pioneer Families" (S. Malone, c. 1983), p. 3 (Reliability: 3). [S434] Toole, Blanche "Sabine County Marriages 1875-1900 1900-1910 Prior to 1875" c. 1983.