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

m. 21 Sep 1894


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  • Father | Male
    Julius Preston Alford

    Born  21 Jan 1873  Isla, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  21 Sep 1962  Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Married  21 Sep 1894  [1, 2]  Sabine County, Texas  [1, 2] Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Burtis Terry Alford, Sr. | F861 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Elizabeth "Lizzie" Katherine Collier | F861 Group Sheet 

    Mother | Female
    Martha Ella "Mattie" Williams

    Born  26 Jan 1879  Isla, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  15 May 1972  Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Child 1 | Female
    Carra G. "Carrie" Alford

    Born  8 Jun 1895  Isla, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Yes, date unknown   
    Buried     
    Spouse  Austin Neal | F12498 
    Married     

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

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