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Marriage: Children:
  1. Jesse Anderson Lunsford: Birth: 1818 in NC.

  2. Rebecca Jean Lunsford: Birth: 1819 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA. Death: 1908 in Flat River, Person Co, NC

  3. Peyton Lee Lunsford: Birth: JUL 1822 in VA. Death: 1876 in Caswell Co, NC

  4. Allen Howard Lunsford: Birth: 29 MAY 1823 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA. Death: 01 APR 1881

  5. Mary Ann Lunsford: Birth: 10 JAN 1826 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA. Death: 06 MAY 1885 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA


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a. Note:   Joseph Lunsford Cemetery - Lucy Garrett Road
 Location: Lucy Garrett Road across from intersection with Billy Hicks Road
 Directions: From Roxboro, take Old Durham Road to Lucy Garrett Road. Cemetery is on right.
 Access: Inside massive stone wall near road.
 Survey: March 2007 by Ken and Becky Dalton
 GPS: 36 20 25.9 N 078 58 04.8 W
 Notes: Stones are laying down and covered by periwinkle and ivy. There are several fieldstones but only 3 marked by carved tombstone.
  Graves
 1. Joseph LUNSFORD / Born Apr 8, 1779 / Married / Elizabeth Howard / Jan 2, 1817 / Who died June 7th, 1834 / He afterwards married / Rebecca Jones / Nov 4th, 1837 / & died Dec 20th, 1855 /
  2. Elizabeth HOWARD / Wife of / Joseph LUNSFORD / Born Apr 1, 1797 / Died Jun 7th, 1834 / Leaving four children / Jesse Anderson / Rebecca Jones / Allen Howard / and / Mary Ann /
  3. Elmira TROTTER / was born Feb 18th, 1821 / married / Jesse A Lunsford / Nov 10th, 1842 / and died / (broken stone) 2nd, 1863 leaving eight children / Elizabeth Frances / Joseph Addison / Virginia Elmira / Ira Thomas / John Calvin Calhoon / George Allen / Jesse Jones / Rebecca Ella / She said on her deathbed / if it was the will of the Lord / to take her she would be / better off and repeatedly said / Bless the Lord / Remember friend as you pass by / as you are now so once was I / As I am now so you will be / prepare for death and follow me / Blessed are they who die in the Lord /
  http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperson/lunsford-joseph-cemetery-lucy-garrett-road.htm
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  Rec'd emai Sep 2007 from Sue Howard Wilkerson, confirming that his dtr was my Rebecca Jones Lunsford.
  Sue (Howard) Wilkerson of TX
 Gerald Alden Howard
 Virginia Thomas (Bumpass) Howard
 Thomas Bumpass and Elmira Lunsford
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  Joseph Lunsford
 Person County North Carolina Record Books
 1812 Abstracts
 #179 John Bumpass Sr. Will Record
 July 12, 1812
 Daughters Prudence Paine, Molly McVay, Sally Yarbrough, Elizabeth Bumpass, Lucy Jennings, grandson Robert Paine, sons John and Gabriel. Exec: son John and Samuel Dickens.
 Wit: Joseph Lunsford Senior and Jr.
  Person County, North Carolina
 1814 Tax List
 Capt. Fowler's District
 Joseph Lunsford Jr.
  Person County, North Carolina
 1835 Book 6 Page 516
 Allen Howard to Joseph Lunsford of Person County, North Carolina. "...two Negro boys by the names of Jesse & John..."
  Person County, North Carolina
 Howard, Solomon to Joseph Lunsford..."Negro slave named Jane aged about thirteen years.." (BOS-1839,p.205, book 10)
  Person County, North Carolina
 Estate Record
 Joseph Lunsford 1855



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