When Hiram Lafayette Samford was born on 12 August 1851, in Shelby, Texas, United States, his father, Simon Zerah Samford, was 34 and his mother, Epsey J Lee, was 31. He married Susan Izora Eaves about 1871, in Shelby, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Center, Shelby, Texas, United States in 1900 and Justice Precinct 8, Shelby, Texas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 May 1921, in Shelby, Texas, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Mount Olive Cemetery, Timpson, Shelby, Texas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1856: Shelby, Texas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English (Essex): variant of Sandford .
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