AAFA Kentucky Bible and Family Records

By Lynn D. Shelley, AAFA #484
From Published Sources

ALFORD FAMILY BIBLE

From TENNESSEE BIBLE RECORDS, VOL. IV published by the Knoxville Chapter, Daughters of the American Colonists, 1963, pages 93-95.
page 93

Present Owner [1963]: Mrs. J. A. Orr (nee Jessie Ingram), Kenilworth Drive, Knoxville 19, TN Publisher: Whilt & Yost, Philadelphia, 1858
Inscription in front of Bible in longhand: 'Mag. M. Alford's Book, purchased in 1859'

FAMILY RECORD
MARRIAGES

• Mag. M. and C. F. Alford was married March 28th 1850
  [AAFA has the date as Mar 23? Was that the date of the bond or license?]

BIRTHS

• Cary F. Alford born January 27th 1825
• Margaret M. Alford born May 5th 1832 [born a Mitchell]
• Susan Alice Alford born May 29th 1851
• Mitchell Alford born July 10th 1854
• Boswell Mitchell born May 17th 1784
• Susanna Robinson born October 1789

DEATHS

• Susanna Mitchell deceased April 10th 1842, aged 53 years
• Boswell Mitchell deceased Feb. 11th 1867, aged 82 years
• Margaret M. Alford deceased December 24th 1887, aged 55 years
• Carey F. Alford deceased May 4th 1897, aged 72 years
• Alice Alford McConathy deceased Oct. 30th 1937, aged 89 [years]
• Mitchell Cary Alford deceased December 9th 1914, aged 60 years

[Records from a BROWN Family Bible were included in this Alford Bible. No connection has been found with this family? Does anyone know of a Brown connection to this family? AAFA has the additional pages--dates range from 1805-1896]

AAFA NOTES: This is the Bible of Margaret Mitchell Alford who was the wife of Cary F. Alford, son of Nathaniel Alford and America Smith, and grandson of Charles Alford who was probably the first Alford in Kentucky. Mag and Cary were the parents of only two children, a son who became the Lt. Gov. of KY from 1891-1895 (Mitchell Cary Alford), and a daughter Alice who married Asa McConathy. The McConathys are living with Mitchell Alford in 1900 in Fayette County and have the following children: Asa, Jr. born 1874, Margaret born 1877, Cary (girl) born 1881, Lillie Mae born 1883 and Pinkie Lou born 1886. Mitchell never married so there are no descendants of this family named Alford. Most of this family is buried in the Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, KY (Fayette Co.).