Burford Ancestors - Generation 2 - Alexander Oscar Burford

  Alexander Oscar Burford was born 21 Mar 1820 in Tennessee

Alexander Burford married Nancy Reynolds before 1844 in Jasper County, Illinois.  She was born about 1822 in Illinois.

NOTE: "After the death of her husband, Alexander O. Burford, Nancy married James N. Van Meter." -- source Marion Burford. [I can't find any specific records to verify this.]

Alexander and Nancy Burford had six children:

i.  John R. Burford, born 20 September 1844, Newton, Jasper County, Illinois; died 16 January 1846.

ii.  William Benjamin Burford, born about 1847. 

iii.  George Washington Burford, born January 1849, Illinois; died 1917, Linn, Oregon.  

iv.  Missouri Burford, born 21 May 1851; died 08 January 1853, Jasper County, Illinois.

v. Shelton A. Burford, born about 1856, Illinois.

vi.  Alexander Oscar Burford, Jr., born 11 March 1857, Jasper County, Illinois; died 07 October 1929, Judsonia, White County, Arkansas.

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Alexander Oscar Burford, Sr. died 28 January 1858, age 37, and was buried in Burford Cemetery, Jasper County, Illinois.

I believe this is Alexander's original stone. The newer stone in the photo above was probably placed in front of the original when the cemetery was rededicated in 2004. The newer stone is on his FindAGrave memorial. I don't know where I got the photo of the older gravestone.