Notes for: Mary Lee Berdine

From The History of Greene County, Pennsylvania:

J. L. MORFORD, farmer and stock-grower, was born in Spring- hill Township, this county, November 23, 1847, and is a son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Brown) Morford. His parents were of Irish and German ancestry, and were natives of Greene County. Mr, Mor- ford's ancestors were among the pioneer settlers of the couTity. Ilis grandfather, James Morford, was a pioneer farmer. Isaac Morford, his father, who spent his life in this county, was killed at Burton, West Virginia, November, 1864, where he was shot by a man who :/ 856 HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY, opposed him in a political dispussion. His family consisted of six children, of whom the subject 'of this sketch is the youngest. He was reared on his father's farm, receiving his education in the com- mon schools. He chose farming as his occupation through life and has been very successful, owning at present a fine farm of 122^ acres near New Freeport, Penn. In 1866 Mr. Morford married Miss Mary, daughter of James Burdine. They are the parents of seven children, viz: James B., Mary Ann Eliza., Valma L., Eliza- beth A., Samuel M., Lewis Q, and Delilah Harriet. In polities Mr. Morford is a Democrat.