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Born:
- Other sources have him born abt 1838.
Census:
- Listed as George B. Stafford, a factory laborer, with wife Martha J. (?), widowed son John A. and grandsons Loyd and Albert. 5 of 7 children living.
Died:
- George Boyd Stafford was called "Dock" Stafford. Thomas Moore wrote in his
book "The Two Whys" the following: "In the fall of 1863 my father bought
the farm where my Uncle Hugh Moore had lived for many years, located on
the north side of Bear Creek bridge, some three miles northwest of
Christmasville, and in Weakley County, Tennessee, now occupied by Uncle
Mose Cox's widow, Mrs. Lizzie Cox. Here my oldest sister, Martha, was
married to Dock Stafford the following year. My father sold this place to
Charley Featherstone for $1,500.00, and saw him sell three bales of
cotton, that he had raised on the place, that same winter, for $1, 500.00,
or $1.00 per pound. For the information of the younger people I gave price
of 100 acres of land, and show how cheap farms were at that time. One man
could buy a farm and raise enough to live on and pay for it in one year;
and yet there were lots of renters in that day. These were war prices, you
say, and they were; but land and stock were cheap. After selling the above
farm my father rented the Uncle Tommie Boaz place, right close to Mt. Ary
Church, and we lived here in 1865."
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Abt 1840 - 
