When James Franklin Burford was born on 2 October 1896, in Butts, Georgia, United States, his father, John Alexander Burford, was 30 and his mother, Rosalie Pettigrew, was 25. He lived in District 612, Butts, Georgia, United States in 1900 and District 615, Butts, Georgia, United States in 1910. He died on 5 July 1911, in Butts, Georgia, United States, at the age of 14, and was buried in Cedar Rock Cemetery, Jackson, Butts, Georgia, United States.
English (southwestern England and West Midlands): habitational name from Burford in Devon, Oxfordshire and Shropshire, or Burford Bridge in Surrey, so named with Old English burh ‘stronghold, fortified manor’ + ford ‘ford’.
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