Note:  All generations referenced to William Wofford (1620-1655)



 Generation No. 6


DANIEL6 WOFFORD (ABSALOM5, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2,
WILLIAM1) was born November 22, 1778 in Pendleton, South Carolina, and 
died October 30, 1846 in Georgia.  He married TEMPRANCE MCGEHEE 
December 05, 1808 in Jackson County, Georgia.

     Notes:

     Daniel Wofford migrated to Georgia to what at that time was Jackson County,
     which was created in 1796, its western boundry being the Appalanchee River.  
     Jackson County gained territory December 7, 1812 with the "Wofford Settlement" 
     from the Augusta Treaty of 1783.  On December 19, 1818, Jackson County lost 
     territory to Hall County.  This included the "Wofford Settlement."  The history of 
     this settlement is that in the treaty with the Cherokee Indians, October 24, 1804, 
     the tribe ceded a four-mile wide tract known as "Wofford's Settlement," mostly in 
     what is now Hall and Habersham Counties.  It extended 23 miles by 4 miles.

     Daniel registered again in 1820, for the 1820 Land Lottery of Georgia.  This time 
     he drew a prize chip and won a 250 acre section of land in Early County in Southern 
     Georgia, about 80 miles north of Florida on the Alabama border.

     Daniel purchased 250 acres in Hall County on July 16, 1823.  He purchased another 
     250 acres on November 8, 1825, in Hall County, and 250 acres in Hall County on 
     December 20, 1837.

     His wife Temprance was born in 1793 in North Carolina, to Jesse McGehee.  
     After Daniel's death in 1846, Temprance, better known as "Tempee," continued 
     to live on the land given to her by Daniel, and raise her children until her death, 
     October 7, 1850.

     Children of Daniel Wofford and Temprance McGehee are:

            i.      DANIEL7 WOFFORD.
            ii.     MARTHA WOFFORD.
            iii.    MILLY WOFFORD, m. JAMES PARTRIDGE.
            iv.     TEMPIE WOFFORD, m. UNKNOWN PETTIJOHN.
     2.     v.      JOSEPH WOFFORD, b. April 24, 1812; d. September 11, 1863, 
                    Sevier County, Arkansas.
     3.     vi.     ABRAHAM WOFFORD, b. 1815; d. June 12, 1888, White County, 
                    Georgia.
     4.     vii.    JAMES WHITNEY WOFFORD, b. 1828, Georgia; d. 1889, 
                    McMinn County, Tennessee.
     5.     viii.   JACOB W. WOFFORD, b. 1836, Hall County, Georgia; 
                    d. May 25, 1865, Point Lookout, Maryland.



 Generation No. 7


2.  JOSEPH7 WOFFORD (DANIEL6, ABSALOM5, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, 
WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born April 24, 1812, and died September 11, 1863 
in Sevier County, Arkansas.  He married CATHERINE MORGAN.

     Children of Joseph Wofford and Catherine Morgan are:

            i.      WILLIAM HENRY8 WOFFORD, b. October 03, 1831; 
                    d. September 21, 1861.
            ii.     JAMES DANIEL WOFFORD, b. September 12, 1837; 
                    d. August 11, 1862.
            iii.    THOMAS JEFFERSON WOFFORD, b. July 15, 1838; 
                    d. April 11, 1930.


3.  ABRAHAM7 WOFFORD (DANIEL6, ABSALOM5, WILLIAM4, 
WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born 1815, and died June 12, 
1888 in White County, Georgia.  He married SARAH STATEN 1833.

     Children of Abraham Wofford and Sarah Staten are:

            i.      CHRISTOPHER C.8 WOFFORD, b. 1834.
            ii.     MARY E. WOFFORD, b. 1836; m. UNKNOWN BROCK.
            iii.    JOSEPH D. WOFFORD, b. 1838.
            iv.     BUD WOFFORD.
            v.      NANCY C. WOFFORD, b. 1842; d. Waco, Texas.
            vi.     ALFRED F. WOFFORD, b. 1844.
            vii.    F. M. WOFFORD.
            viii.   BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WOFFORD, b. November 26, 1850, 
                    Habersham, Georgia; d. July 10, 1902, Monett, Missouri.
            ix.     WILLIA WEBB WOFFORD, b. May 22, 1853; d. January 05, 1910.
            x.      DANIEL WOFFORD.
            xi.     ALLEN KEMSEY WOFFORD.


4.  JAMES WHITNEY7 WOFFORD (DANIEL6, ABSALOM5, WILLIAM4, 
WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born 1828 in Georgia, and died 
1889 in McMinn County, Tennessee.  He married MARY MILLER 1848 in 
Hall County, Georgia.

     Notes:

     Moved to McMinn County, Tennessee.

      Children of James Wofford and Mary Miller are:

            i.      FRANCIS MARION8 WOFFORD, b. 1848.
            ii.     WILLIAM WOFFORD, b. 1851.
            iii.    TEMPA WOFFORD, b. 1853.
            iv.     THOMAS KENZIE WOFFORD, b. 1854; d. 1924, Crosby 
                    County, Texas.
            v.      JOHN WOFFORD, b. 1856.
            vi.     GEORGE WOFFORD, b. 1859.
            vii.    ALSEY JANE WOFFORD, b. 1862.
            viii.   SHERMAN WOFFORD, b. 1866.
            ix.     MARGARET WOFFORD, b. 1868.


5.  JACOB W.7 WOFFORD (DANIEL6, ABSALOM5, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, 
WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born 1836 in Hall County, Georgia, and died May 25, 
1865 in Point Lookout, Maryland.  He married NANCY MILLER 1857 in Hall 
County, Georgia.

     Notes:

     When he was ten years old, his father, Daniel, died.  His older brother, James 
     W. Wofford, married and lived on 250 acres willed to him and located next to 
     the main farm, where Temprance continued to bring the children up.

     In late 1857, Jacob, at the age of twenty-one, married Nancy Miller, the twenty-one 
     year old daughter of Henry Miller and his wife, a tenant farmer who lived on a farm 
     adjoining James'  farm.  Jacob and Nancy lived in the family homestead on the 250 
     acre farm Daniel left in his will.  On January 12, 1863, Jacob bought 148 acres in Hall 
     County, Ga from Ausbon Seay, making his holdings total 400 acres.

     Very little information of what happened to Nancy after 1865 has been found at 
     this time.  We do know that Jacob's brother, James and Nancy's parents, the 
     Henry Miller family, were located in Meigs County, Tennessee according to the 
     1870 census.  The location of Nancy is not known for this same period of time, 
     during 1870.  She may have remarried after Jacob's death.

     Jacob was twenty-five when the Civil War broke out.  At that time he and his 
     wife, Nancy, lived in Hall County, Ga., located just southeast of Gainsville, 
     Georgia.  Jacob joined the Confederate Army, Company E, 18th South Carolina 
     Infantry Regiment in late 1863.  He participated in the Battle of Charlston, 
     Second Manassas, and Petersburg, where Jacob was captured by the Union Army.  
     He was shipped to the Union prison at Point Lookout, MD, where he died May 25, 
     1865 at the age of twenty-nine.  He is buried in the Confederate Cemetary at Point 
     Lookout, MD. 

      Children of Jacob Wofford and Nancy Miller are:

     6.     i.      JOHN CALVIN8 WOFFORD, b. December 02, 1858, Hall County, 
                    Georgia; d. July 12, 1916, Mt. Carmel Hospital, Pittsburg, Kansas.
     7.     ii.     JAMES D. WOFFORD, b. 1861, Hall County, Georgia; d. October 27, 
                    1890, Monett, Missouri.



 Generation No. 8


6.  JOHN CALVIN8 WOFFORD (JACOB W.7, DANIEL6, ABSALOM5, 
WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born December 02, 
1858 in Hall County, Georgia, and died July 12, 1916 in Mt. Carmel Hospital, 
Pittsburg, Kansas.  He married (1) LUCY JANE WINTERS 1876 in Georgia.  
He married (2) NANNIE CURRY May 19, 1891 in Cassville, Missouri.

     Notes:

     It was just after 1880 that they made the trip to Missouri along with John's  
     younger brother James D. Wofford.  John and Lucy farmed and John would 
     work in the mines of the area. 

     John married his second wife Nannie Curry in Cassville, Missouri.  At the time 
     of the marriage John was working in Springfield, Missouri, as a motorman on 
     the horse- drawn trollies.

     John and Nannie continued to live in Springfield until around 1897, when they 
     moved back in the Barry County area.  Another break exist in their history until 
     1907, when they moved to Arma, Kansas.  Here, John farmed and worked the 
     mines in the area. 

     Children of John Wofford and Lucy Winters are:

     8.     i.      DORA9 WOFFORD, b. March 02, 1878, Georgia; d. September 10, 
                    1920, Monett, Missouri.
     9.     ii.     FRANK MCGEE WOFFORD, b. September 23, 1881, Monett, 
                    Lawrence County, Missouri; d. May 20, 1948, Springfield, Missouri.
            iii.    UNKNOWN WOFFORD, b. 1880.
            iv.     UNKNOWN WOFFORD, b. December 1883.

      Children of John Wofford and Nannie Curry are:

            v.      FERN MILETA9 WOFFORD, b. 1908; m. UNKNOWN CECIL.
            vi.     RAYMOND JAMES WOFFORD.
            vii.    BYRON JACOB WOFFORD.
            viii.   ATRAIL WOFFORD, m. UNKNOWN ENLOE.
     10.    ix.     EARL WOFFORD.
            x.      HAROLD EUGENE WOFFORD, d. 1916.


7.  JAMES D.8 WOFFORD (JACOB W.7, DANIEL6, ABSALOM5, WILLIAM4, 
WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born 1861 in Hall County, Georgia, 
and died October 27, 1890 in Monett, Missouri.  He married SARAH F. MEANS 
February 27, 1881 in Monett, Missouri.

      Children of James Wofford and Sarah Means are:

            i.      EZRA9 WOFFORD, b. April 09, 1882; d. June 16, 1968; 
                    m. MARARET ELIZABETH KELLY, September 23, 1933.
     11.    ii.     GAITHA N. WOFFORD, b. August 06, 1889; d. January 13, 1960.



 Generation No. 9

8.  DORA9 WOFFORD (JOHN CALVIN8, JACOB W.7, DANIEL6, ABSALOM5, 
WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born March 02, 1878 in 
Georgia, and died September 10, 1920 in Monett, Missouri.  She married 
(1) UNKNOWN POWELL.  She married (2) BERT WILLIAMS.

      Child of Dora Wofford and Unknown Powell is:

            i.      CLARENCE10 POWELL.

      Child of Dora Wofford and Bert Williams is:

            ii.     AMBERT10 WILLIAMS.


9.  FRANK MCGEE9 WOFFORD (JOHN CALVIN8, JACOB W.7, DANIEL6, 
ABSALOM5, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born 
September 23, 1881 in Monett, Lawrence County, Missouri, and died May 20, 
1948 in Springfield, Missouri.  He married MINNIE JOSEPHINE FORGEY 
1906 in Oklahoma Territory.

     Children of Frank Wofford and Minnie Forgey are:

            i.      JOHN CALVIN10 WOFFORD, b. November 12, 1917; 
                    d. June 13, 1957.
            ii.     FRANK MCGEE WOFFORD, b. February 07, 1920; 
                    d. March 14, 1975.
            iii.    HAROLD EUGENE WOFFORD.
            iv.     RALPH DONALD WOFFORD.
            v.      HARRY RICHARD WOFFORD, b. August 27, 1928; 
                    d. February 16, 1993.


10.  EARL9 WOFFORD (JOHN CALVIN8, JACOB W.7, DANIEL6, ABSALOM5, 
WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1).  He married 
HAZEL UNKNOWN.

      Child of Earl Wofford and Hazel Unknown is:

            i.      WILMA10 WOFFORD, m. UNKNOWN HITCHCOCK.


11.  GAITHA N.9 WOFFORD (JAMES D.8, JACOB W.7, DANIEL6, 
ABSALOM5, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was 
born August 06, 1889, and died January 13, 1960.  She married UNKNOWN 
BAKER.

      Child of Gaitha Wofford and Unknown Baker is:

            i.      KEITH10 BAKER.

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