Alexander Jasper Burford was the fifth of fourteen children born to Alexander Mitchell Burford, February 26, 1807 in Giles County, Tennessee - February 25, 1890 in Mississippi, and Jane Lewter, October 11, 1816 in North Carolina - July 29, 1879 in Mississippi.  Alexander Jasper grew up and went to school in Tate County.  It was here that he met his wife-to-be, Mary Jane Jackson, daughter of Andrew Jackson and Martha Culp. (The Jacksons were relatives of President Andrew Jackson).  Alexander J. and Mary Jane were married in Desota County December 20, 1860.  Soon after their marriage and the birth of their first son, Alexander enlisted in the Confederate army at Cortinth, Mississippi, March 1, 1862, a member of Company A. 10th Mississippi Regiment of Infantry.  He was engaged in several battles, captured November 30, 1864, and made prisoner of war at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee.  He was sent to Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois and released June 18, 1865.

     In 1869, the Alexander J. Burford family caught a bpat at Memphis, Tennessee, and came down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, from there they went by ox cart to Tarrant County, Texas.  Then moved to Parker County and around 1871, to Runnels County near the city of Content.  They moved to Coleman County in 1876.  They had 14 children, Daniel Layfayette, Lee, Ada, Otis Franklin, Margaret, Tolbert, Minnie, Jasper Lenard, William Baxter, Mattie, Effie, Bert, Myrtle and Courtney.  The old Burford homeplace is very near the city of Goldsboro, where they farmed and raised cattle.  The children went to school at Opossum Trot near Goldsboro.  They were members of the Church of Christ.  The Alexander Jasper Burford family left Coleman County in 1898, yet Daniel and Otis continued to live on the old home place for several years.  Alexander J. moved to Snyder in Scurry County.  He died September 28, 1901 and Mary, May 17, 1917.

     Daniel L. Burford married Josephine Burson, daughter of Isaac Jackson Burson and Mary Ann Carroll, October 19, 1884.  They are both buried at Midway Cemetery.  He died October 22, 1922 and Mary, January 7, 1951.  Two of their five children are buried there, Jodie Eric and Wirt D. Lessie Isaac is buried in Reeves County and Flossie and Conner are still living.  She is 94 and he is 88.