When James Henderson Stafford was born on 2 November 1853, in Jackson Township, Dallas, Missouri, United States, his father, Louis Lafayette Stafford, was 17 and his mother, Matilda Jane Cheek, was 18. He married Beda Ann O'Neal on 4 December 1875, in Polk, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Marion Township, Polk, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Rogers, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. He died in 1934, in Collinsville, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Ridgelawn Cemetery, Collinsville Township, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.
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English: habitational name principally from Stafford (Staffordshire), but occasionally from other places with similar names, such as Stafford House in Ifield (Sussex), possibly East and West Stowford in East Down (Devon), and three minor places in Devon called Stafford, in Dolton, Broadhembury, and Colyton parishes. The places are all named with Old English ford ‘ford’ as the final element, but have different initial elements. The Staffordshire placename has Old English stæth ‘river bank, shore’; Stafford in Colyton (Devon) has Old English stān ‘stone, rock’; the Sussex placename has Old English stēor ‘steer, bullock’; East and West Stowford (Devon) have Old English stæf ‘staff, stave, rod’; Stafford in Dolton and Stafford in Broadhembury (Devon) may have Old English stæth, stān, or stæf.
Irish (Wexford): variant of Stocker .
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