James Harvey Williford (1791 - 1862)

Born 3 Nov 1791 in Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Price) Williford — married about 1813 (to 1826) in Southampton County, Virginia

Husband of Nancy M. (Price) Williford — married 20 Dec 1827 in Bond County, Illinois

Descendants

Died 26 Apr 1862 at age 70 in Bond, Illinois

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Biography

Children of Jordan and Charity Williford: (1) Robert Williford, Sr.; (2) Jordan Williford, Jr.; (3) James Williford; (4) Williford married Daniel G. Gillespie; (5) Elizabeth Williford married Morris Chenault and died in 1812; a. George Washington Chenault; (6) Samuel Williford. Source: "The Wilford-Williford Treks into America" by Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel, published in 1959. Part 1 pg. 61. [1]

There is a discrepancy on the Find a Grave site between this James Willeford and James Madison Williford (Williford-296). James M. served as a First Sergeant with Company C of the Illinois Volunteers in the Mexican War not this James Williford (Williford-376)

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James Harvey Williford was born the third child of Jordan and Charity (Holloman) Williford in 1791 in Hampton, Virginia. In about 1813 in Virginia, James would marry his first wife, Sallie Price, daughter of David and Millie (Parker) Price. Together they would have the following children:

Mary Williford (1814-1850)

Robert Williford (1818-1893)

Elizabeth Williford (1819-1883)

Nancy Ellen Williford (1822-1898)

James Harvey Williford (1825-1880)

Sallie would pass away in 1826.

On December 20, 1827, James would marry his first wife's sister, Nancy M. Price, and together they would have four children, only one of which would live out a full life. Here are those children:

Rhoda J. Williford (1828-1838)

Millie C. Williford (1830-1838)

Willis W. Williford (1832-1915)

William J. Williford (1834-1845)

James Harvey Williford would pass away in 1862 at 70 years of age.

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James and Sally (Price) Willeford were both natives of Virginia. The mother was a native of Virginia. Sally died in Tennessee in 1826, leaving to her husband's care five little children, the youngest scarcely more than a babe. In 1827, James left Tennessee and came to Illinois with his family where he found a permanent home within the boundaries of Bond County, locating upon the broad prairie about seven miles west of Greenville. Sometime after his first wife's death, James married Nancy Price, the sister of his former wife. They would have four more children only one of which, Willis, would live to adulthood.

The death of James Willeford occurred in 1862 upon the Illinois farm where he had located thirty-five years before. He had never acquired wealth and could give his children but the limited advantages of the early subscription and little district schools, but he trained them in the habits of industry and self-reliance which fitted them for the battle of life.

Sources

• Portrait and Biographical Record of Montgomery and Bond Counties, Illinois. Chapman Bros., 1892 - Bond County (Ill.). Pages 199-200. [2]

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX4K-F5T : 30 December 2015), Jams Williford, 1860.

• Find A Grave Memorial for James Willeford [3]

See Also:

• Family Search Profile on James Harvey Williford [4]

• Geni Profile on James Williford [5]