JOHN MILTON WOLFORD JR.

JOHN MILTON WOLFORD JR.

So far we have gathered facts on “Ma Mason” Linnie Gertrude and on to Linnie's father, Wylie Riseden Wolford. Now we will go one more generation to John Milton Wolford. Ancestry shows I share DNA with 71 others in our family line from John that have also had their DNA done. That's just a neat indicator pointing us to our John. :)

John Milton Wolford, Jr. was born October 26, 1824 in Russel County, Kentucky to John Milton, Sr. and Emily Jane Grider. He married Mary Jane Epperson March 23, 1848 in Kentucky. He passed away May 19, 1903 in Dallas, Texas. He was 78 years old. He is buried in the Mills Cemetery in Dallas.

We find his family in the 1850 and 1860 census still in Kentucky. He is 26 in the 1850 census. It lists him as a Farmer. 1860, 1870, 1880 he is in Dallas, Texas. By 1900 he is still in Dallas but widowed and a landlord of a farm.

John and Mary had twelve children. Twelve children!!!

Interesting: John Wolford was 36years old when Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of United States.

Attached find the headstone for John and Emily.