Martha McDowell Buford

This portrait, printed in A Genealogy of the Buford Family in America, With Records of a Number of Allied Families (1903), shows Martha McDowell Buford. Buford was born in Augusta County and married Continental Army officer Abraham Buford on October 4, 1788. She and her husband had six children. According to A Genealogy of the Buford Family in America, she was a devout Presbyterian who read through her bible three times a year.