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Proof of his marriage to Louraney Wier 1st and then to Orpha Thompson.
Don't care too much for the second wife as Louraney & Alford had only 2 children, John T. Lillard (married his cousin Arta Elizabeth Hankins) & Sarah Malina, the latter being my ggg-grandmother. She married Wm Henderson Joplin.
Sarah was born in 1857. Within a short period of time Louraney had died. It was in 1859 that Alford married Orpha. Sarah was 2, give or take a few months. My mother remembers Sarah Malina as she sat on the front porch smoking a corn-cob pipe and wearing "17 petticoats". My mother asked her great-grandfather why grandma Lina was so mean and he replied that she grew up dirt poor with a mean stepmother...that her childhood was not a happy one. My mom told me she was scared of Sarah but she made the best jam in the world.
I have a photo of Sarah Malina when she was about 10 or so. She does not look very happy.
To see the photo of Sarah and her father Alford/Alfred plus photos of the Marriage book enteries:
http://www.texashistoryhunter.net/hankins.html
Sherry
"Digging up ancestors since 1982"
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