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Corrington Loyal Alford
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: In several places throughout his work Dr. Corrington tells us that the work is imperfect, partial, and has many errors. Please do not read and take as valid any of his work unless it is obvious that it has been validated.

Corrington Loyal Alford, born April 29 1836 son of Loyal Adolphus Alford and Elizabeth P. Butler was one of the best known Alfords ever. In the late 1800's he took it upon himself to create as complete a file as possible on the Alford family. He sent, or had sent, letters and forms to every Alford known to him to live in the United States. These pages are about that work. Corrington died Oct 7 1908.

There were several similar efforts over the years and those known are listed below:

The Burke and Alvord Memorial, compiled by John Alonzo Boutelle and William Alvord Burke and published in Boston in 1864. In addition to about 40 pages included in appendix A through I it included two Burke genealogies as well as one of Alexander Alvord and a brief genealogy of Benedict Alvord [Alford].
Alford Family Notes, compiled by Rev. Josiah Alford and published in London, England 1908.
The Alvord Family or A Genealogy of the Descendants of ALEXANDER ALVORD an Early Settler of Windsor, Conn. and Northampton, Mass, compiled by Samuel Morgan Alvord and published in Webster, NY in 1908. (Corrington Alford made reference to this work.)
KINFOLKS A Genealogical and Biographical Record of Thomas and Elizabeth (Stuart) Harllee, Andrew and Agnes (Cade) Fulmore, Benjamin and Mary Curry, Samuel and Ameila (Russell) Kemp, John and Hannah (Walker) Bethea, Sterling Clack and Frances (King) Robertson, Samuel and Sophia Ann (Parker) Dickey, their antecedents, descendants and collateral relatives; compiled by William Curry Harllee "assisted by numerous collaborators." Printed by Searcy & Pfaff, LTD, New Orlean, LA, 1934. This is a four volume work with 3270 pages containing many Alfords- primarily Jacob Alford and Mary Pace of Robeson Co., NC and their descendants.

The Alford American Family Association (AAFA) nor any of its members should be considered the ultimate authority on the subject of Alford. As far as we know there is no such thing. It is true however that AAFA is the current and latest with an interest in Alford and it has at its disposal more resources than have ever been available to a similar group.

This effort or project, as we are calling it, is not an end product and none is planned for Alford. It is merely an effort or vehicle to help us to better understand the work of Corrington L. Alford and to correlate it with the work of others.

Here is some information shared with some of the AAFA leadership as this project began.

Perhaps the most significant part of the collection is the genealogical reports he wrote based on the results of these letters. His hand written work was organized into ten sections and were transcribed about a 100 years after his death by his great great granddaughter Carol J. Benedict.

The following table lists the ten sections, identified as he did, of his basic genealogical work. When the "section" appears as a link, click to see Corrington's work. It may, or may not have been annotated by AAFA and that should be obvious. Remember that Corrington advised us that his collection was incomplete and sometimes wrong. When one of the "subjects" appears as a highlight, click to see the latest AAFA discussion regarding what Corrington has on the subject.

There are or will be numerous cases where we need to provide you with a page on the website that will related to a piece of Corrington's work. That will be so stated in the applicable AAFA annotations and a link or cross-reference provided at the bottom of this page. This will not include names which will be covered in the Registry of Names in the table following the one below.

Corrington's Section Outline

Section	Pages	Subjects (not all inclusive but we have tried to include each family head and head of a group of related families)
First	10	A-1 Alfred the Great, M-1 Micheal Alford, H-1 Henry Alford, W-1 William Alford, J-1 John, B-1 Benjamin Franklin, M-2 Michael, T-1 Thomas, J-2 John,
Second	6	William, John, Benjamin, John
Third Part 1 12 pages Part 2 29 pages	41	Nathaniel, Elijah, Levi, Nathaniel, Benedictus, Jeremiah, Josiah, Arba, Jonathan, Jeremiah, Benedictus, B-2 Bartholomew Woodcock, George, Benedict, Ruben
Fourth Summary Remarks on Section 4	11	Benedict, John, John Lambert, James R., Fielding, James, Franklin, George W., James M.
Fifth	8	James, Henry, James, Robert, George W. James M.
Sixth	3	Alexander, Samuel, B-2 Bartholomew Woodcock,
Seventh	4	Benedict, Amnui, Albert G.
Short (not numbered) Commentary Upon Sections Eight and Nine	2	Jeremy Alvord, Mitchel Cary, Enoch L.
Eighth	23	George, Herman, George C., John Mallory, Ethan Allen, Johnson Hulbert, George C., ulbert Mallory, George Frederick, Albert Hulburt, A.N.,
Nineth	14	Oliver, Oliver Jr., Marshall, Oliver, Ambrose, George F.
Tenth South Lands	24	James William Zion, Kinchen, John Rogers, James Wooten, Loderwick, Green, Green Haywood, Green Benton, James Bryant, Henry Madison. William Gaston, Edward H., Warren, Benjamin W., James & Judy, Loderwick P., Gutridge, Littleburg, James, Drewry, Loderwick, Drewry Cade, A.N., Jacob, James, Jacob, Nathan T. Wildy, William H., John, John T., Ambrose A.
Brief Notes of Letters	6	Benedict

Registry of Names
There are many of these Alfords with the same name. Some of the same Alfords with the same name appear as many as three times throught out the ten sections. This registry is a work in progress as part of our effort to reconcile and clarify these names. In some cases the name may have been entered only to provide a link to a photo.

ID	Name	Section Page	Father Spouse
A-1	Alfred the Great	1 1
B-1	Benjamin Franklin	1 _
B-2	Bartholomew Woodcock	1 & 7 _ & _
J-1	John	1 _
J-2	John	1 _

M-1	Micheal	1 1
M-2	Micheal (same as above)	1 7
T-1	Thomas	1 _
W-1	William	1 _

LINKS

About Alfords with letter about Corringtons project. Scroll down to page 5 to see the letter in column one near the bottom of the page.
Biography of Loyal and his father.

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