Married: Elsie Woods October 1, 1922 she was 17 he was 21
in Newton Co Arkansas
Sam was the son of John Thomas Mefford and Nancy Lou Henderson-Mefford
Married: Virgie Lee Hallum July 12, 1925 She was 17 he was 25 in Newton Co Arkansas
Per Ancestry Marriages

Sam and Virgie's had 6 children together

Ruby Lee Mefford-Carter
James Roy Mefford
Wanda Pearl Mefford-Swafford
William "Junior" Darrel Mefford
Billy Carroll Mefford
Jackie Wayne Mefford

My Grandpa was a bootlegger that's how he mads his money well that and running a fruit stand, in all my years growing up in my grandparents house,never did I ever hear one cuss word was ever spoken nor did I ever see or hear either my grandma or grandpa fight or raise their voice to each other, my grandmother was religious so she never approved of my grandpa bootlegging or making his shine, and really didn't approve when he would come home with a few more sips them he needed of his home made brew, when he upset her she would go pull a straw out of the broom and poke him with it, he'd say Virgie don't do that it hurts she'd say well Sam you know I don't like you drinking the devils drink, and when she would suspect he had a steel going she would follow him to it and when he went to town she would go back and bust it up, when he would go check on it and find it busted up you'd hear now Irgie why you go and do that, but never fought about it or raised a voice, one time grandpa had a little of his own brew was sitting down the hill from the house thinking grandma wouldn't see him well she did she got her rifle out sat in her rocker grandpas bottle of hooch was sitting beside him every time he would reach for it she would fire a shot about 2 or 3 inches away from his hand, he would yell up now Virgie you better quit before you hit me and kill me, she would holler back now Sam if I was aiming for you I'd be hitting you not inches away from you, the whole family was watching and laughing at poor grandpa, finally granny took her last shot and busted his bottle of shine or the devils drink as she called it, they were opposites but the perfect match, I always waited on the front porch for my grandpa with a salt shaker when he got there we walked in the garden eating tomatoes with salt, to this day I can't eat a tomato that's been in the fridge they have to be warm, I remember my grandpa having lines and lines of catgut drying I ask him what it was he said it's catgut they pay for money for it, they use it for stitches, I thought catgut eww I thought it was cats guts but it was not cats guts, Catgut is a type of cord[1] that is prepared from the natural fibre found in the walls of animal intestines.[2] Catgut makers usually use sheep or goat intestines,