William Joseph Durham's Parents

Henry Durham and Mary Durham Resided in Hopkins County, Texas in the year 1874

Henry Durham and Mary Durham lived in Sandfield, Texas (Hopkins County/East Texas) when William Joseph Durham was born on April 6, 1896.  Census reports show that the Durham's parented 11 children of their own and that all their children attended school and could read and write.  The Durham's owned a medium size farm where they grew crops of cotton and peanuts on sharecropper land historically known a Negro Village in Sandfield, Texas.  Henry Durham had some standing within local politics in the capital city of Hopkins County known as Sulphur Springs, TX (originally Bright Star).  The Caddo and Cherokee Native Americans once lived in this area of East Texas.  Records suggest that Henry Durham's father Zakaria was Jewish and studied law at some point and that his mother, Daisy, was Afro-Indigenous American of Cherokee "AniYinWeYah" ancestry.  Records suggest that Henry Durham's family lived on the Chickasaw Reservation in Tennessee Indian Territory, at some point.
You may wonder why this information is important to his story.  Let it be known that you can only know the heart of a man from whence the struggle his people faced and the land that his identity has been forged upon without question or excuse.