Abraham Buford (1820 - 1884)

Born 18 Jan 1820 in Woodford County, Kentucky

Ancestors

Husband of Amanda (Harris) Buford — married before 1848 in United States

Died 9 Jun 1884 at age 64 in Danville, Hendricks County, Indiana

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Biography

Abraham Buford was an American soldier and landowner. Graduate of the United States Military Academy, he served in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War. Buford joined the Confederate States Army in 1862 and served as a Brigadier General in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. After the war, he retired to his native Kentucky and became a thoroughbred horse breeder.^[1]

Son of William B Buford and Frances W Kirtley. Husband of Amanda Harris.^[2] Father of William A Buford.^[1] Abraham passed away in 1884. Final resting place in Lexington, Kentucky.^[3]

Slaves

• Billy Walker 1860-1933

US Slave Schedule Woodford County, Kentucky 1860: ^[4] Household Role Sex Age Birthplace A Buford

1. UNKNOWN Male 42
2. UNKNOWN Male 32
3. UNKNOWN Male 19
4. UNKNOWN Male 16
5. UNKNOWN Male 14
6. UNKNOWN Male 14
7. UNKNOWN Male 13
8. UNKNOWN Male 12
9. UNKNOWN Male 10
10. UNKNOWN Male 8
11. UNKNOWN Male 5
12. UNKNOWN Male 2
13. UNKNOWN Male 0
14. UNKNOWN Female 35
15. UNKNOWN Female 32
16. UNKNOWN Female 14
17. UNKNOWN Female 3

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Abraham Buford, Wikipedia.org, accessed January 31, 2020.
2. ↑ Abraham Buford, FamilySearch.org, accessed January 31, 2020.
3. ↑ Abraham Buford, Find A Grave: Memorial #9507, accessed January 31, 2020.
4. ↑ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKK1-K62M : 16 October 2019), A Buford, 1860.

• Civil War Times Illustrated - April 1981
• James L. Conrad, "Forrest’s Great Gamble,” Civil War Times Illustrated, Vol. 20, no. 1, (April 1981): 32.