Back row, left to right: Willie Lou McAfee, Ima Faye McAfee
Front row, left to right: Ottie Evelyn "Ott" Thurman, John Miller McAfee, Mary Lena Thurman

          John Miller McAfee was born March 1847 in York District, South Carolina (CSA Pension Application). There was a John M. McAfee born circa 1847 in the Lawson McAfee household in 1850 Talladega County, Alabama; John and Lawson McAfee appeared in the 1870 Hopkins County, Texas census; but the JP record of John's death has his father listed as John McAfee, mother: unknown.

John Miller McAfee was not quite 15 years old when he enlisted in the War Between the States; he enlisted in the spring of 1862 in Hopkins County. According to his Pension application he served as a private in Company "E", a Cavalry unit commanded first by B. Warren Stone, later by Isham Chisum. He was released from his duties at Hempstead in 1865. John married Sarah Jane Crowder 16 October 1865 in Hopkins County, Texas (Vol: 2, p: 294), daughter of Green Ham Crowder and Virginia Bromley. According to census records, she was born between 1849 - 1850 in Mississippi

Children of John Miller McAfee and Sarah Jane Crowder are:

1. Harvey McAfee, born Abt. 1869, (Listed in the 1870 census, he was not listed with the family in 1880)
2. Lallie / Sallie McAfee, born about 1872, died before 1893
3. Paul McAfee, born about 1876 - (he is listed in the 1880 census; no other information on him.)
4. Paulena M. "Lena" McAfee was born 08 March 1874 in Hopkins County, Texas.
5. Jewel J. McAfee was born 1879 in Hopkins County, Texas.
6. Barney Lawson McAfee was born 09 March 1888 in Texas.

Sarah Jane Crowder McAfee died 03 April 1890 in Hopkins County. We do not know where she is buried.

John Miller McAfee had pneumonia one week before dying 31 December 1922. His Death Record (Vol: 4, p: 9) names hIs physician as W. W. Long and the undertaker as Murray & Wester. According to this record, John was living in Route # 4, Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, Texas when he died. He was buried 01 January 1923 in Forest Academy Cemetery in Hopkins County, Texas

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Source Notes:
1850 Talladega, Talladega, AL - Page: 440A
1860 Northern Division, Talladega, AL
1870 Precinct 3, Hopkins, TX - Page 115B, Line: 40
1880 Precinct 3, Hopkins, Texas- Page Number 155D- listed as MC HAFER
1900 Justice Precinct 3, Hopkins, Texas
1910 Precinct 3, Hopkins, Texas
1920 Precinct 3, Hopkins, Texas - Page: 240A