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- Thomas J. Stafford is named as a son in the Jackson Co., TN Will dated 23 May 1831; the Will was proved 15 January 1849.
1850 Jackson Co., TN census, entry 25/25
Thomas J. Stafford 48 NC
Rhoda 25 TN
Anderson 4 TN
Elizabeth Anderson 18 TN
1860 Jackson Co., TN census, entry 676/676
Thomas J. Stafford 60
Rhoda 35
Andrew 15
Joel 9
Mary 7
Nancy 5
He has died before 1870 census:
1870 Jackson Co., TN census, entry 156/156
Stafford, Rhody 52
Joel 19
Adaline 14
Stafford ______ 6 female
(testimony in lawsuit says he died about 1867 or 1868)
from lawsuit
ADJOURNED to September 17, 1907:
W. H. Young, age 63. Live Gainesboro, am a farmer and lawyer. T. J. Stafford had one brother called Dock... I called a natural born idiot he also had three children I considered idiots and one not so bright but not an idiot.
Ques: Did you know old man Johnnie Stafford in his lifetime.
Ans: Yes Sir.
Ques: Was he a man of ordinary sense.
Ans: Yes Sir that old John was.
Ques: Did you hear A. C. Stafford say John Stafford was a brother of T. J. Stafford.
Ans: Yes one John Stafford if that was the one I heard him say it.
Ques: Did you hear him say Polly Butler was his father's sister.
Ans: I heard him say... I did not know her. I never saw her.
/s/ W. H. Young
Born:
- 1850 Census has him born in NC.
Census:
- Listed as Thomas J. Stafford, in farming, with wife Rhoda and son Anderson and probable sister-in-law Elizabeth Anderson age 18 b. TN.
- Listed as Thomas J. Stafford, a farmer, with wife Rhoda and children Andrew, Joel, Mary and Nancy.
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