When Zachariah Joseph Saffell was born in 1814, in Franklin, Williamson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Rev James Grimes Saffell, was 34 and his mother, Amy Wheat Jacobs, was 31. He married Susannah D. Cornelius on 6 October 1836, in Moulton, Lawrence, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Oktibbeha, Mississippi, United States in 1850 and Arkansas, United States in 1870. He died on 4 July 1871, in Jonesboro, Craighead, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 57.
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