Fayette County AlArchives Biographies.....Sanford, John B. February 19 1844 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JOHN B. SANFORD, attorney-at-law, at Fayette Court House, was born in
Jefferson county, Ala., February 19, 1844. He is the only son of Thomas and
Marguerite (Burford) Sanford, the former of whom was a native of Tennessee and
the latter of Alabama. Thomas Sanford came to Alabama in an early day, settled
in Jefferson county, and there engaged in farming and in merchant tailoring. The
father of Mrs. Marguerite Sanford was John Burford, who was also one of the
early settlers of Jefferson county and one of its leading citizens. John B.
Sanford was reared in Alabama and educated in private schools. He is a lawyer
and has been in active practice for the past twenty-five years. He was married,
in 1870, to Miss Marguerite S. Robertson, a native of Alabama and. a daughter of
John C. Robertson. To this marriage there have been born six children, viz.:
Samuel F., John T., Mary J., Susie, Earline, and Pinkie. Mr. Sanford was in the
late war, enlisting, in 1861, in company B, Tenth Alabama infantry, which
surrendered at Appomattox Court House in 1865. He was engaged in several of the
important battles of the war, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, second battle of Manassas,
Seven Pines, Williamsburg, and the battles around Richmond and Deep Bottom. He
was slightly wounded at Salem Church near Fredericksburg. Mr. Sanford is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, the Masonic fraternity and of
the order of Odd Fellows. He is a democrat and has filled several official
positions. He was superintendent of instruction in Jefferson county when only
twenty-nine years of age. He was county solicitor from 1870 until 1890. He was
sent to the state legislature from Fayette county in 1882, and filled all these
positions with credit to himself and with satisfaction to those whom he served.
He has lived at Fayette Court House for thirty-five years and has served as
mayor of the town for the past six years. He is a representative citizen and is
widely and popularly known to the people of this part of the state.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1026-1027
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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