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| | Biffle family group sheets: James Wesley Biffle and Emma Mikel |
 | | From Tennessee he removed to Cooke County, Texas, in 1876 but resided there only a short time, when, in the same year he decided to pay a visit to a ranch which he owned in what afterward became Wichita County, Oklahoma. |
 | | There he followed the same line of work until 1898, when he came to Mud Creek, Jefferson County, and invested his earnings in a farm, and continued to cultivate his land and raise stock until 1912, when he was elected sheriff of Jefferson County on the democratic ticket. |
 | | In 1887, in Cooke County, Texas, Sheriff Biffle was united in marriage with Miss Emma Markle, daughter of the late J.W. Markle, a furniture dealer of Stephens County, Oklahoma, who died there in 1914. |
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