AAFA Tennessee Bible and Family Records

By Lynn D. Shelley, #484
(Published in AAFA ACTION, Fall 1998, pp. 66-71)

ALFORD FAMILY BIBLE

The following Bible records were found in published sources at the TN State Library and Archives or sent to AAFA by the named source.

From TENNESSEE BIBLE RECORDS, VOL III, 1961, by the Knoxville Chapter, Daughters of the American Colonists, pages 78-83 [three related Bibles]:

In possession of Carl Alford, Route 2, Lenoir City, TN
Publisher: John C. Winston & Co., Philadelphia PA, Chicago, IL and Toronto, Ontario

MARRIAGES

This certifies that the Rite of Holy Matrimony was celebrated between Charles F. Alford of Lenoir City and Laura V. Crox of Loudon on March 7, 1886, at H. A. Crox's by Jackson West

Mary Alford and John Harrison was married January 26, 1909

BIRTHS

Charles F. Alford borned Nov. 26, 1865
Laura V. Crox borned March 20, 1868
Benjamin F. Alford borned Thursday Feb. 15, 1887
Mary Elizabeth Alford borned Saturday, July 27, 1889
Martha Malinda Alford borned Monday, April 27, 1891
Nellie Eugenia Alford borned Wednesday, May 16, 1894
William Hobart Alford borned Saturday, April 17, 1897
Robert Cannon Alford borned Monday, July 17, 1899
Walter Scott Alford borned Friday, Nov. 29, 1901
George Washington Alford borned July 19, 1906
Henry Alfred Alford borned Tuesday, March 22, 1904
John J. Alford, b. Sep. 12, 1908
Carl Alford was borned Feb. 26, 1912 [put here for chronological order; found on marriage page above]

DEATHS

Martha Malinda Alford, died Friday night at 10 o'clock, May 24, 1895
Nellie Eugenia Alford died Friday morning, 7 o'clock, Sept. 27, 1901
Charles F. Alford died May 12, 1947, buried New Providence
Laura Virginia Crox Alford died Mar. 2, 1951, buried New Providence

AAFA NOTES: This was the Bible of Charles F. Alford and wife Laura Virginia Crox. Charles F. was the youngest son of Robert Cannon Alford and his second wife Margaret J. Mourfield. They are descendants of John Alford and Jane McElhattan who married in Grainger County, TN, on Jan 13, 1811. John was an 18-year-old orphan (born in NC) bound out to Thomas Mann in November, 1804, also in Grainger County, TN. Efforts to discover his parents have not been successful thus far. There are several other east TN families that appear closely related but no connections have been proved yet. Benjamin F. Alford whose birth is listed here was the father of AAFA past President Benjamin F. Alford, Jr., AAFA Member #447.