MARY LOURANIE (LURANA) SANFORD

MARY LOURANIE (LURANA) SANFORD, wife of Earl Albert Strain, son of Walter Andrew Strain, son of Priscilla Mankins, daughter of Peter Mankins II, son of Peter Mankins I, son of John Mankins.

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Mrs. Earl Strain (Lurana Sanford) is the daughter of Jesse Lee Sanford, born 1868 in Alabama; died 1933 in Alabama; and Addie V. Goodwin, born 1861 in Alabama; died 1954 in California.

Her father, Jesse Lee Sanford, was the son of William Asbury Sanford, died c.1870 in Alabama, and Lucinda Hicks, born 1849 in Alabama; died 1912 in Alabama.

Her mother, Addie V. Goodwin, was the daughter of Thomas Sumpter Goodwin, born 1833 in Alabama, died 1911 in Alabama; and Lurana Griffin, who died in 1863.

Her paternal grandfather, William Asbury Sanford, was the son of Rev. James Sanford, born 1790 in Va., died 1877 in Hamburg, Ark.; and Elizabeth Ann Snipes, born 1793 in N.C.

Her paternal grandmother, Lucinda Hicks, was the daughter of John Hicks, born 1807 in Georgia, died in Alabama (date unknown); and Susan Latham, born 1806 in N.C., died 1876 in Bibb Co., Alabama.

Her maternal grandfather, Thomas Sumpter Goodwin, was the son of Major Young G. Goodwin, born 1801 at Edgefield, S.C., died 1867 at Maplesville, Ala., and Elizabeth Wright, born 1804 at Edgefield, S.C., and died 1865 at Maplesville, Ala.

Her maternal grandmother, Lurana Griffin, was the daughter of Robert Griffin, born 1800 in Va., and Nancy Caddell, born 1802 in N.C.

Her maternal great-grandfather, Major Young G. Goodwin, was the son of Theophilus Goodwin, born 1744 in N.C. and Rebecca Bledsoe, b. N.C.

(The following sketch of Mrs. Strain's gr-grandfather is from "History of Methodism in Arkansas" by the Rev. Horace Jewel.)

Rev. James Sanford was born in April, 1790 in Gloucester County, Virginia. He was converted in 1808 and licensed to preach in 1810 by that remarkable man and pioneer of Methodism, Jesse Lee. He was admitted on trial in the Virginia Conference in 1811 at Raleigh, N.C., and appointed to Franklin Circuit, with Thomas Burr as his colleague and Samuel Garrett as his Presiding Elder. In 1812 he was appointed to the Williamsburg Circuit, in 1813 to the Neuce Circuit, in 1814 to the Tar River Circuit, in 1815 to River Circuit, in 1816 to Mecklenburg Circuit. He located in 1817 and settled in Chesam, N.C.

In 1818 he moved to Tennessee and labored with great acceptability in the great revival that swept over Tennessee and Kentucky about that time . . . . In 1859 he removed to Arkansas and settled in Hot Springs county where he labored with great zeal until 1869, when he was readmitted into the travelling connection in the Little Rock Conference and appointed to Polk Mission. In 1870 he was sent to Buena Vista Circuit. In 1871 he was granted a superannuated relation, which he retained until his death, which occurred Sept. 29, 1877, in the 88th year of his age.

He was a very fine preacher and abundantly useful. Although the greater part of his long and eventful life was in local ranks, he was always the friend of the itinerant, and nothing but the demands of a large famiily prevented him from remaining in the itinerant ranks during his entire life.