Farmed in Mount Pleasant, Titus County, Texas per the 1860, 1880, & 1900 U.S. Federal Censuses. Remarried widower/seven children—six to first wife, Aragan Wafford (maiden name unknown), & a daughter to second, Cynthia Ann (Stevenson) Tabor Wafford. Born to farmer-slave owner James Wofford & wife Catherine (Klutts) Wofford, his mother of German descent & his father of likely English/Scotch/Irish. Surname spelled "WAFFORD" per gravestone & the JOHNSON-WAFFORD Family Bible. Nordic facial features—long face, high forehead, hollow cheeks, & big ears. Per the written memoirs of grandson Robert Absalom Johnson (1899-1980): During the Civil War, the Johnson & Wafford families made guns & harnesses for the Confederate Army; uncertain who made what.* Died, 84. Gravestone inscription reads, "Our father has gone to a mansion of rest to the glorious land of the Deity blest."
--- *NOTE: Per family folklore, the Wofford clan included shoemakers by trade, perhaps leather-crafting gun harnesses as well.
--- *NOTE: Per family folklore, the Wofford clan included shoemakers by trade, perhaps leather-crafting gun harnesses as well.
Farmed in Mount Pleasant, Titus County, Texas per the 1860, 1880, & 1900 U.S. Federal Censuses. Remarried widower/seven children—six to first wife, Aragan Wafford (maiden name unknown), & a daughter to second, Cynthia Ann (Stevenson) Tabor Wafford. Born to farmer-slave owner James Wofford & wife Catherine (Klutts) Wofford, his mother of German descent & his father of likely English/Scotch/Irish. Surname spelled "WAFFORD" per gravestone & the JOHNSON-WAFFORD Family Bible. Nordic facial features—long face, high forehead, hollow cheeks, & big ears. Per the written memoirs of grandson Robert Absalom Johnson (1899-1980): During the Civil War, the Johnson & Wafford families made guns & harnesses for the Confederate Army; uncertain who made what.* Died, 84. Gravestone inscription reads, "Our father has gone to a mansion of rest to the glorious land of the Deity blest."
--- *NOTE: Per family folklore, the Wofford clan included shoemakers by trade, perhaps leather-crafting gun harnesses as well.
--- *NOTE: Per family folklore, the Wofford clan included shoemakers by trade, perhaps leather-crafting gun harnesses as well.
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