Daniel Washington BURFORD b. 5 Nov 1782 , , South Carolina, USA d. 19 Jun 1848 , Tate, Mississippi, USA: An Armstrong & A Heffernan

1782 - 1848 (65 years)

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Name	Daniel Washington BURFORD
Born	5 Nov 1782	, , South Carolina, USA
	Address: Old Kershaw District South Carolina, South Carolina
	Although Kershaw County had not yet been created when he was born, this is the area of the Camden District in which his family lived.
Gender	Male
Residence	1809	, , South Carolina, USA
Residence	1823	, Madison, Alabama, USA
Buried	Jun 1848	, Tate, Mississippi, USA
Buried	Address: Burford Cemetery Tate County Tate County, Mississippi
Died	19 Jun 1848	, Tate, Mississippi, USA
Person ID	I2539	An Armstrong & A Heffernan
Last Modified	16 Feb 2014

Father	Lt. Phillip Terrell BURFORD, b. 29 Jan 1763, , Bute, North Carolina, USA , d. 14 Jan 1834, , Bedford, Tennessee, USA (Age 70 years)
Mother	Rebecca CLACK, b. 4 Jun 1763, , Bute, North Carolina, USA , d. 1 Jan 1820 (Age 56 years)
Married	8 Jan 1782	, Warren, North Carolina, USA
Family ID	F1255	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Lucy HILLIARD, b. 22 May 1789, d. 26 May 1847, , Tate, Mississippi, USA (Age 58 years)

Children

	1. Rebecca Clack BURFORD, b. 16 May 1809, , , South Carolina, USA , d. Deceased
	2. Harvey C BURFORD, b. 2 Dec 1811, d. Deceased, , Tate, Mississippi, USA
	3. William Clack BURFORD, b. 1816, d. Deceased
	4. William H BURFORD, b. 23 May 1823, , Madison, Alabama, USA , d. Deceased

Last Modified 6 Dec 2008

Family ID F1305 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

Burford Cemetery, Tate Co, Mississippi
Daniel Burford, 11-5-1782 - June 19, 1848
Lucy Burford, May 22,1789- May 26, 1847, consort of D. Burford

Early Settlers of Alabama
Circuit Judges.
2. Jonathan Burford , the second clerk, was a good physician, who had an extensive practice in and around Moulton . He was a man of talent and popularity. He did not perform the duties of the office in person, but by a very competent deputy, whom we will notice presently. The Doctor had come from Giles county, Tenn. , to which place he returned before his term of office expired. He had a brother, Daniel Burford , who came with him from Tennessee . He was a tall, spare man, with blue eyes, and high Tennessee new-ground, a dead limb had fallen across his neck and partially broken it, but he finally recovered from the serious injury, and ever afterward carried his head at half mast, which gave him a peculiar expression of countenance. Daniel was an old man when I first knew him; lived a few miles east of Moulton , and ginned cotton for toll, extensively, for his poor neighbors. Moreover, he hired a number of white men; and had a great many lawsuits, on a small scale, with his numerous customers. In these, for a long time, he was uniformly victorious. The old man in the preparation of his cases left nothing to chance. He knew what every one of his witnesses (who were his retainers) would say before court; and if the recollection of any one of them seemed to be dim, he would refresh it by recital of concurrent facts so clear that the witness could then see the thing as plain as day. When one of his cases was called Old Daniel seemed to grow taller, his form to expand, and even his head become mere erect. He loomed up like a gallant general in the opening of a battle. At first I supposed that the desire of gain was the motive which influenced him, but long observation convinced me that though it was in part, yet that the main motive was a love of the excitement of litigation. But in process of time, the old man, very unexpectedly to himself, was defeated in one of his cases. For his life he could not divine the cause of his disaster. He had prepared the case well, and no one of his veteran witnesses had gone back on him. He concluded that it must have been owing to the young lawyer who hackled and dissected his witnesses, so he employed him on his side for his next case. But all this failed to show up what was the matter. The truth was that the public had tired of the old man and his witnesses. They had been before it too often. The Gunpowder plot had exploded. One by one his cases went off the docket in the same way until the sheriff was no longer heard to sing out of the court house window: "Dan-iel Bur-ford !" The man who is fond of going to law - who is successful for a season, and thinks full surely "his greatness is a ripening," will certainly meet the same fate. A witty fellow, after these defeats, offered to bet any man $20 that the old man could not recover on a plain note of hand. He had one child, a daughter, who married her cousin L. P. C. Burford , who moved to West Tennessee and became very rich.