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 | | John Walter Cranford, lawyer, Texas senator, and United States congressman, son of James Heflin and Caroline Nancy (Bettis) Cranford, was born near Grove Hill, Alabama, on July 28, 1859. |
 | | The oldest, Walter Ennis Cranford, established the law firm of Armstrong, Cranford, Barker, and Bedford in Galveston, notable for maritime, insurance, and corporate law. |
 | | John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: Daniell, 1880; reprod., Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1978). |
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