picture of Buford and Eda Jane on the porch of their Auburn home
Eda Jane McFerrin was born in Ittiwambi County, Mississippi on June 10, 1874. Her parents were George Thomas McFerrin (age 23) and Sarah Elizabeth Davis (age 18). Eda Jane was the oldest of nine children. She had five younger sisters and four younger brothers.
How did she meet Buford?
picture of Buford and his two sisters
Buford Elbert Pipes was born on September 15, 1875 in Athens, Limestone County, Alabama to Samuel S. Pipes (age 25) and Sallie Elizabeth Gray (age 23). He was the second oldest of seven children, three girls and four boys.
When did he move to Texas?
Where did he marry Eda McFerrin ?
When Buford was 22 years old, he married Eda Jane McFerrin (age 23) on November 7, 1897.
picture of Buford and Eda Jane on porch with sons
Two years after they were married, they had their first child, Thomas Samuel, who was born in 1899. They had seven children in total, all boys. Following Thomas was Charlie William (1901), Jessie (1905), Claude Ethridge (1907), Edgar Ivan (1908), Richard Riley (1911), and finally Winston Woodrow "Finn" in 1913. Their son, Jessie, died in 1907 at the young age of two years old, leaving them with six boys in total.
Auburn House, painted by Ann Tatum
Picture of Eda Jane in 1951 (age 77)
In 1943, Buford (age 68) and Eda Jane (age 69) moved into the "Kuykendall house", or the "Auburn house", which their son, Charlie William, had bought as an investment.
picture of gravestone
In 1956 Eda Jane (age 82), passed away in Grandview, Texas. She and Buford had celebrated 59 years of marriage together. She was buried at the Grandview Cemetery in Grandview, Texas.
picture of Buford and his brother, John, in 1957
Buford passed away at the age of 82 on April 30, 1958 in Grandview, Texas. He was buried next to his wife at the Grandview Cemetery in Grandview, Texas.
How we are related:
(1) Buford Elbert Pipes & Eda Jane McFerrin
(2) ---Mattie Beth Stiles & Charlie William Pipes
(3) ------ William Kenneth Pipes & Jerry Ann Priest
(4) ---------A. Pipes & G. Tatum
(5) ------------L. Ducommun & M. Ducommun
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