Joseph Huffman & Jamima Thornton

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Family Group Record                 0091
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Husband's Name   Joseph Huffman (Hufman-Hoffman)
 Born:           1803    Place: Kentucky
 Died:    12 Aug 1861    Place: Clear Springs, Clark, Arkansas 
 Married: 23 Nov 1826    Place: Clark County, Arkansas (A-22)
 Father:         John Huffman (Hoffman-Hoofman)
 Mother:         Mary M. ....... 
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* Huffman, Hufman, Hoffman
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Wife's Name      Jamima Thornton
 Born:    25 Dec 1809    Place: Tennessee
 Died:    15 Apr 1897    Place: Clear Springs, Clark, Arkansas
 Father:         William Thornton
 Mother:         Mary Woolsey
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Children                      Moved to Illinois
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 1. Sex Name
     M  Andrew Jackson Huffman
        Born:           1828    Place: Cairo, Alexander, Illinois
        Died:    28 Mar 1863    Place: Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois (CW)
        Married: 26 May 1847    Place: Clark County, Arkansas (C-53)
        Spouse:  Emily Hudson
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 2. Sex Name
     F  Mary (Polly) Ann Huffman
        Born:    08 Apr 1831    Place: Cairo, Alexander, Illinois
        Died:    25 Sep 1915    Place: Shawmut, Pike, Arkansas
        Married: 06 Jun 1856    Place: Clark County, Arkansas (C-376)
        Spouse:  Wilson Nesbit Trout
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                     Returned to Clark County, Arkansas
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 3. Sex Name
     M  Henry Clay Huffman
        Born:           1833    Place: Clear Springs, Clark, Arkansas
        Died:    15 Aug 1860    Place: 
        Married:                Place: 
        Spouse:  
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 4. Sex Name
     M  George Washington Huffman
        Born:           1836    Place: Clear Springs, Clark, Arkansas
        Died:       Abt 1862    Place: ... Civil War
        Married:                Place: 
        Spouse:  Sarah Jane McGrew

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 5. Sex Name
     F  Ellen (Elba-Elbie-Ellie) Huffman
        Born:           1838    Place: Clear Springs, Clark, Arkansas
        Died:           1917    Place: 
        Married: 29 Apr 1858    Place: Clark County, Arkansas (D-62)
        Spouse:  William Wingfield
        Married: 10 Oct 1869    Place: Clark County, Arkansas (E-172)
        Spouse:  George Washington Dickson
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 6. Sex Name
     M  Joseph Van Buren Huffman
        Born:           1841    Place: Clear Springs, Clark, Arkansas
        Died:                   Place:
        Married:                Place: 
        Spouse:  
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 7. Sex Name
     M  Daniel Webster Huffman
        Born:           1843    Place: Clear Springs, Clark, Arkansas
        Died:       Abt 1862    Place: ... Civil War
        Married:                Place: 
        Spouse:  
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 8. Sex Name
     M  Franklin Elias Huffman
        Born:           1845    Place: Clear Springs, Clark, Arkansas
        Died:    13 Dec 1860    Place: Clark County, Arkansas
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 9. Sex Name
     M  Grandison Lee Huffman
        Born:    18 Dec 1848    Place: Clear Springs, Clark, Arkansas
        Died:    28 Dec 1922    Place: Clark County, Arkansas
        Married: 22 Jan 1874    Place: Clark County, Arkansas (F-261)
        Spouse:  Lavina McMillan
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10. Sex Name
     M  John Warren Huffman
        Born:    20 Feb 1851    Place: Clear Springs, Clark, Arkansas
        Died:    28 Mar 1938    Place: 
        Married:                Place: 
        Spouse:  Rhoda A. Henslee
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Sources of Information: Our Ancestors, Jessie Mae Ashford & Adelle Brown
Ashford, (Malvern Graphics: Malvern, Arkansas), 1977, page 121, 122, 123;
Census Records: Clark County, Arkansas 1840, 1850, 1860; William Thornton
Bible; Clark County, Arkansas Marriage Records; FGR Update, Ralph Jones,
Orem, Utah email (06 Mar 2000). Key: (CW) Civil War
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George W. Trout, farmer, Caney Fork, Ark. ... His parents, W.N. and Mary A.
(Huffman) Trout, were natives of North Carolina and Illinois, respectively.
They were married in Arkansas and became the parents of two children:
George W. and John H. The father was a public spirited man and was a
Republican in his political views. He enlisted in the late (Civil) war, but
was not in active service. He was also a member of the Primitive Baptist
Church, and died in 1886, but the mother is still living, and is quite
advanced in years ... Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern
Arkansas, (The Goodspeed Publishing Company: Chicago, Nashville and St.
Louis), 1890, Pike County, page 342-343.
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We're only too happy to contribute what we can on the Huffman Line, it is a
scattered and complicated one. Some of our information comes from distant
cousins in Texas ... HUSBAND's NAME: Joseph Huffman b. 1803; WIFE's NAME:
Jamima Thornton; Father: William Robert Thornton, b. South Carolina;
Mother: Mary Lula Woolsey, b. Virginia; Children: 1. Andrew Jackson Huffman
b. 1828, Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois, d. 28 Mar 1863; 2. Leroy
Huffman b. 1830, Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois; 3. Mary Ann "Polly"
Huffman b. Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois; 4. Henry Clay Huffman; b.
1833, Clear Springs, Clark County, Arkansas; 5. George Washington Huffman
b. 1836, Clear Springs, Clark County, Arkansas, d. Abt 1862 (CW) Spouse:
Sarah Jane McGrew; 6. Ellen ("Elba" "Elbie" "Ellie") Huffman b. 1838,
Clear Springs, Clark County, Arkansas, d. 1917, Spouse: William H.
Wingfield; 7. Joseph Van Buren Huffman (not a junior) b. 1841, Clear
Springs, Clark County, Arkansas; 8. Daniel Webster Huffman b. 1843, Clear
Springs, Clark County, Arkansas, d. Abt 1862 (CW); 9. Franklin Elias
Huffman b. 1845, Clear Springs, Clark County, Arkansas; 10. Grandison "Lee"
Huffman b. Clear Springs, Clark County, Arkansas, d. 28 Dec 1922, Clark
County, Arkansas; 11. John Warren Huffman d. 28 Mar 1938, Clark County,
Arkansas, Spouse: Rhoda A. Henslee, Buried: Graysonia, Clark County,
Arkansas, Thomas Cemetery. David, my wife did all of the research on this
and the other Huffman Families ... Ralph (Jones), Orem, Utah email (06 Mar
2000).
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Update 03.06.00               David Kelley 2000                FGR-0091.HTM
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