Individual Details

According to the News Star newspaper of October 19, 1909, Marshall Sanford [Stanford in the headline] fell asleep on the railroad tracks while trying to get to his home at Calhoun. A train knocked him off the tracks and he died within a few minutes. He was accompanied by his nephew Clay Sanford who was unhurt. The article states Marshall was about 45 years old.
Son of Evan and Elizabeth Sanford (see 1870 Ouachita Parish Census). Date of birth taken from the 1900 Ouachita Parish census. Some sources give a middle initial of M.

Birth	Apr 1864	Louisiana
Census (family)-shared	2 Aug 1870	(Evan A. Sanford and Elizabeth Walters) Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Census (family)-shared	4 Jun 1880	(Evan A. Sanford and Elizabeth Walters) Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Marriage	25 Aug 1887	West Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana - Drucilla S. Murphrey
Census (family)	16 Jun 1900	Ouachita Parish, Louisiana - Drucilla S. Murphrey
Death	18 Oct 1909	Calhoun, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Burial	21 Oct 1909	Beulah Cemetery, Calhoun, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

Spouse	Drucilla S. Murphrey (1869 - 1910)
Child	Julius Caspers Sanford (1889 - 1968)
Child	Julia Sanford (1890 - )
Child	Evan Sanford (1892 - 1975)
Child	Vollie Sanford Sr. (1894 - 1966)
Child	H. Landrum Sanford (1896 - )
Child	Omma Sanford (1898 - 1910)
Child	George Cornelius Sanford (1901 - 1964)
Child	Katie Lucille Sanford (1902 - 1990)

Father	Evan A. Sanford (1819 - )
Mother	Elizabeth Walters (1827 - )
Sibling	Minerva Ann Sanford (1845 - 1918)
Sibling	Mary Sanford (1847 - )
Sibling	Edith Ann Sanford (1848 - 1883)
Sibling	Asberry F. Sanford (1854 - )
Sibling	Georgia Ann Sanford (1856 - 1929)
Sibling	Leri Lee Sanford (1862 - )
Sibling	Matilda A. Sanford (1866 - 1932)

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