{"id":3203,"date":"2022-01-10T15:02:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:04:42","slug":"h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/h\/","title":{"rendered":"Hafford, Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coleman Hafford<\/strong>, one of the prominent farmers of Lauderdale County, was born
\nin the county, November 30, 1841, and is the second member of a family of four
\nsons and a daughter, born to William and Margaret (Tinsley) Hafford, and is of
\nIrish descent. His father was born in South Carolina, and after attaining his
\nmajority came to Tennessee. He was married in Madison County, and soon after
\nmoved to Lauderdale County, where he raised his family and lived until he died
\nin 1853. The mother was born in Dickson County, Tenn., in 1814, and is still
\nliving with her children, and is a devout member of the Missionary Baptist
\nChurch. Mr. Hafford was raised on a farm, and received a good education. He
\nenlisted in Company E, First Confederate Cavalry, under Col. Cox, and was in
\nthe battle of Perryville, was captured at Sparta and released on parole;
\nserved in the army over three years. He was married in Lauderdale County,
\nNovember 6, 1867, to Miss Nannie E. Mitchell, a daughter of Abram Mitchell.
\nShe was born in Davidson County, May 6, 1846, and died February 2, 1884. One
\nson and three daughters were born to their marriage: William F., Nannie L.,
\nOlga and Mattie. Mrs. Hafford was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church
\nSouth, and Mr. Hafford belongs to the Missionary Baptist Church. He is a
\nDemocrat, and owns 265 acres of good land, 190 acres of it in the home-place,
\none mile southwest of Hall’s Station. He is a generous, upright man, highly
\nesteemed by all who know him.<\/p>\n

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coleman Hafford, one of the prominent farmers of Lauderdale County, was born in the county, November 30, 1841, and is the second member of a family of four sons and a daughter, born to William and Margaret (Tinsley) Hafford, and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-hafford"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3213,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions\/3213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}