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called “Nannie.” Myrtle is a daughter of James Ira Stanford, and granddaughter of Nancy Stanford McGehee.
C.	Harriet Stanford - bom in 1841 according to the 1850 census of Marion County. Mrs. Smith told us in a letter that she was bom on May 4, 1842, and died April 30, 1915. She married Richard Davis.
D.	Green Stanford - he was bom in MS in 1843 according to the 1850 Marion County census. Mrs. Smith said he was bom December 8, 1843, and died June 6, 1914. Mrs. Myrtle Evans said he lived, died, and is buried in Logtown, MS.
E.	Sarah Stanford - born in MS, in 1845 according to the above census. Mrs. Smith said her full name was Sarah Jane, and that she went by “Jane” mostly. She also told us that Sarah was bom on July 17, 1846, and died on December 18, 1903, and that she married on July 22, 1863, to Reverend Hardy Smith as found in the Hancock County Court records.
F.	Franklin Stanford - bom in 1848 in MS, according to the 1850 census of Marion County. No one remembers him - he probably died as a child.
G.	Abbey Delilah Stanford - bom August 19, 1850, and died November 3,
1920, in Carriere, MS. Mrs. Smith said she married Benjamin F. Mitchell. They married in Hancock County on November 4, 1871. Mrs. Evans said they had a large family in Pearl River County to include: Sarah Elizabeth, Florence, Leonard, Susan, Jackson, James “Newton,” Mary E., Amanda Melvina, Mandy M., and James D. Mitchell.
VIII.	John Stanford, Jr. - he was bom on July 10, 1814, according to the John, Sr. and John, Jr. Bibles. The John Stanford, Jr. Bible gives his death date as April 7, 1861. According to his family Bible, he married Ann Elizabeth Summers on February 4, 1841. Ann E. Summers was bom on March 9,
1813, and died January 26, 1860. John Stanford, Jr. is found in the 1850 Pike County, MS census. He is age 36 and bom in Georgia. His wife was listed as “Nancy Stanford,” age 36, with children “James D. and Luizar Stanford.”
John Stanford again shows up in the 1860 Pike County census. He is listed as bom in GA, with no wife, and children: James D., Lauser R., Margret A.,
David D., and Mary A. Stanford. Additional research shows John Stanford was bom in Warren County, GA. John, Jr.’s granddaughter, Mrs. Olive Stanford Simpson of Poplarville, MS, said her father, David Dewitt Stanford, was bom in Pike County, MS. She also said that her father’s parents died in Pike County when he was a young boy, leaving David and his three sisters to live with their aunt, Nancy Baxter, following his parents’ death. Mrs. Simpson said that her grandparents were buried by the old Mount Pleasant Church in Pike County. She tried to find their graves, but was unable to do so. The following information was
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