Edward Barnwell "Barney" Stafford

1800 -

• Name	Edward Barnwell "Barney" Stafford  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	Between 1790 and 1800	South Carolina   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1850	Division 7, Greene, Mississippi   [1]
  Residence	1860	Southern District, Perry, Mississippi   [3]
  Residence	1880	Jasper, Mississippi, United States   [2]
  Person ID	I009	Branch 115 Edward Barnwell Stafford b. 1790 SC
  Last Modified	27 Apr 2008

  
  

  Family	Margaret Sanford,   b. 1811, Georgia
  Married	15 Jul 1823	Liberty Co., Georgia   [4]
  Children	1. Sarah Stafford,   b. 1831, Georgia   2. Mary Stafford,   b. 1832, Georgia   3. Alias Stafford,   b. 1833, Georgia   4. Edward Walthal Stafford,   b. 20 Jun 1834, Waycross, Ware Co., Georgia ,   d. 13 Jun 1903, Vossburg, Jasper Co., Mississippi  (Age 68 years)   5. Joshua J. Stafford,   b. 1836, Georgia   6. Henrietta Rebecca Stafford,   b. 1840, Georgia ,   d. 1917, Mississippi  (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F04	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  1880 census has his father born in NC. Stafford Springs, Mississippi by Keith Eddins Wilkerson Before the days of the interstate highway system, cross-country travel in this nation was conducted mostly on the network of federal two-lane highways. A classic example, US-11, meandered through Mississippi from Meridian down to New Orleans. About forty-miles south of Meridian, along a series of rolling hills and two miles southeast of Vossburg, US-11 passes through a largely forgotten spot of historical importance named Stafford Springs. Stafford Springs came to be named after a confederate veteran who settled near the town of Vossburg following the War of Northern Aggression. Soon after his arrival, Captain Edward W. Stafford made an interesting observation. The few remaining Choctaw Indians, who had managed to evade deportation by the Federal Government to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma, often brought their sick or ailing to drink from a mineral water spring located in his pasture. The Choctaw called the spring "Bogohama", or "Water of Life" and, as Stafford observed, many of those who drank appeared to profit some relief. - Edward W. Stafford - The Original Edward Stafford Home - One thing led to another and it wasn't long before the white man had adopted the Indian's belief in the spring. It is reported that the water was sent out for testing and a Congress of Medicine, held in Chicago, IL, proclaimed it to offer great benefit to those suffering from Bright's disease and other kidney and bladder ailments. As testimony to the curative qualities spread, a group of capitalists formed the Stafford Mineral Springs Company, Limited, and incorporated in Louisiana on May 19, 1892. The oficers are listed as follows: President: C. Livingston, Vice President: Dr. Rudolph Schiffman, both of St. Paul Minnesota, and G.L. Colburn, Secretary and Treasure, of Stafford Springs.On March 7, 1893, the group formed the Stafford Mineral Springs and Hotel Company, Limited and soon built a bottling works that could produce two railroad carloads per day. The Stafford Inn, described as "a large and comfortable hotel, with wide porches, airy rooms, comfortable office, bath rooms and all modern conveniences," opened in 1899. The owners promised that "rates are reasonable" . [1] Thereafter, people began to travel from all over the country to bathe and drink from the waters of life. Most of them arrived by rail in the town of Vossburg, met by a taxi carriage and ox drawn wagon loads of mineral waters.

  
  

• Sources

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