Yolo County Biographies


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H. C. BUFORD

H. C. BUFORD, dairyman near Woodland, was born in July, 1840, in Kentucky, a son 
of Thomas and Elizabeth (Shropshire) Buford, natives of Kentucky.  Thomas was a 
farmer and turfman, and died in Kentucky in 1876, at the age of about seventy 
years.  The subject of this brief notice was reared on a farm.  At the age of 
twenty-one years, in 1862, he entered the Confederate service (although his 
father was a strong Union man), and served three years.  Afterward he lived in 
Kentucky, until 1879, engaged in farming and mercantile business and trading in 
live-stock.  He then moved to Marion County, Kansas; and then to Cowley County, 
and remained there until 1887.  In December, this year, he came to California 
and located in Yolo County, one mile from Woodland.  His dairy is the second in 
extent in the county.  He intends to purchase land in Yolo County and make his 
permanent home there.  His increasing patronage comprises the best citizens of 
Woodland.  He is a member of Crab Orchard Lodge, No. 420, F. & A.M., of 
Kentucky.  He was married in 1883 to Miss M. Berry, a native of Virginia, and 
they have had one child.  By the two former marriages Mr. Buford had five 
children.  The names of the children are:  Bessie, Thomas K., Kennedy, Clara L., 
Fannie M. and Chelsea C.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Lewis Publishing Co., 
1891  
Transcribed by:  Betty Wilson  August 2004