JULIUS MOSBY “POOLEY” ALFORD

AAFA #0013

1925–1995

THE CLARION-LEDGER

Jackson, Hinds Co., MS—Tuesday, 26 December 1995

       Pooley Alford, 70, owner of Alford Realty, died of a heart attack Saturday [December 23] at home. Services are 11:30 a.m. today at J.J. White Presbyterian Church with burial Hollywood Cemetery. Hartman Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

       Mr. Alford, a World War II Navy veteran, was a member of Southwest Mississippi Board of Realtors and the state and national boards of Realtors. He was a member of the McComb-Pike County Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development District. He was a member of J.J. White Presbyterian Church.  

       Survivors include: brothers, J.E. Alford of Metairie, La., Louis Alford of McComb and Warren Alford of Pass Christian.

AAFA NOTES: SSDI records show that Julius M. Alford (SS #427-48-7850 issued in MS) was born 20 Nov 1925. See the obituaries of his brothers James Louis Alford and John Warren Alford, AAFA #0194, and his half-sister, Ella Quin Alford Mixon, in the Mississippi Obituaries compilation. We published the obituary of his brother Jacob E. Alford, AAFA #0016, in the Louisiana Obituaries compilation.

       Gil Alford wrote:

      Anyone who has ever attended an AAFA meeting will remember Pooley, as he has never missed a meeting. He was one of the founders and one of the original three directors on the board of directors. He was the first AAFA Treasurer.

      Pooley was a close friend and probably the only member about whom I can say I’ve been in his house and he has been in mine. We’ve been out to dinner with him in Mississippi and he has been out to dinner with us in Missouri. As best I can tell there is no one with whom I had been working with longer on our Alford family history effort.

      We had talked on the phone just last week and he was actively involved with two AAFA projects. One was to acquire and present a plaque in behalf of the AAFA to Mr. Claude Alford [AAFA #0017] who will celebrate his 98th birthday next month. In the other case he was going to employ, at his expense, a researcher in Indiana to see if he could learn anything about the whereabouts of information collected by a Dr. C.L. Alford from Alfords all over the country in the 1800s. His collection at one time was reported to be over 400 pages.

      I’ll miss Pooley.

            His lineage: Julius Mosby 1925 MS¹, Jacob Elias 1880 MS², James Thomas 1840 MS³, Julius Caesar 1808 NC⁴, James 1764 NC⁵, Jacob 1738 VA⁶, Lodwick 1710 VA⁷, James 1687 VA⁸, John 1645 VA⁹.