Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

He was a farmer.

Living in Precinct 3, Waller County, for the 1910 census.

Living in Waller County for the 1900 census.

Harris Roberson wrote the following. It was provided to me by the Arrel Lee Roberson family (his brother):

Grandma and Grandad married March 8, 1869 and moved to what is now Waller County. They lived all their married life in that one house at Reid's Prairie. Part of the old house is still standing. Not much to look at but still there.

Their children came along in this order: Uncle Allen, Mary Alice (Aunt Nell). Eugenia Ellis (Aunt Sue), Aunt Clara and, then in 1877, a daughter Belle was born. She only lived to be about three years old. They had another child stillborn in 1879. Then in 1883, Gussie (Augustus Roberson) was born. He lived until his middle teens and then passed away. Uncle Claude, Aunt Ora and Dad (David Alfred) were born in that order. Dad was born July 24, 1890.

Going back to Aunt Sue and Aunt Nell, I don't know where they got those names. All I know is those are the only names I knew them by for many years. Some of you remember that Aunt Nell walked with a crutch. She lost that limb when she was a teenager. Had osteomyelitis and the leg had to be removed.

Mamma was born Lydie Annette Danford August 27, 1893 in Montgomery County near Magnolia. Her father was William Herbert Danford, we all called him "Bubba". He was born July 1, 1862 in Alabama. He died July 16, 1932 and is buried at Fields Store Cemetery.

I can find no record of Mamma's mother - when or where she was born - when or where they married or when she died. All I know is that she was Betty Curtis. I was told that she died when Mamma was very young.

Mamma was more or less raised by Aunt Clara Danford, Bubba's sister-in-law and by Cousin Matt, his second wife.

Bubba's father was Thomas Jefferson Danford, better known as "Uncle Jeff" or to us as "PA". He was born May 13, 1843 in Alabama. He died July 15, 1929 in Waller County and is buried in the Fairview Cemetery at Whitehall in Grimes County. His wife was Sue McAlpine. She was born Aug. 7, 1839 and died in 1903 in Waller County and is buried beside Pa. Incidentally, her brother donated the land that the Reid's Prairie Baptist Church sits on. She, Pa and Bubba were all charter members of that church.

Pa served three years in the Alabama Infantry during the Civil War from 1862 to 1865. He said that the first time he ever saw Bubba was when he came home from the war. Bubba was out in the potato patch and was about two and a half years old. His wife, Sue, was pregnant when he went to war. They moved to Texas sometime after the Civil War.

Pa had a sawmill and did farming. After he was grown Bubba had a sawmill, same one I guess. At one time he ran a restaurant in Navasota. He also did some farming. Later in his life he had a store and grist mill at Reid's Prairie. When I was small, before I started to school, I spent many hours with him at the store.