Hopkins Co. Tx - John C. Buford

From:  June E. Tuck  <jparks@neto.com>

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JOHN C. BUFORD, a pioneer citizen of Hopkins County, died September 10,
1920, at the family residence in the south part of town from the effects
of a stroke of paralysis received some time ago. Interment will take
place in the City cemetery. He was born in Nacogdoches, Texas, February
1842. He was a member of the Baptist Church and had lived in Sulphur
Springs most of his life where he and his wife had raised a splendid
family of sons as follows: W. A., Ham, and Joe Buford of this place; M.
V. Buford , Terrell; and Brit Buford, Eufaula, Oklahoma. All his sons and
wife survive him. During the civil war he at one time was a member of his
father^Òs company, W. R. Buford of Ochiltree Regt., Texas Volunteers.
(Hopkins Co. Echo)