AAFA TENNESSEE BIBLE AND FAMILY RECORDS The Henry Bascome Gill Bible
By Lynn D. Shelley, #0484
(Published in AAFA ACTION, Fall 1998, pp. 66-71)
The following Bible records were found in published sources at the TN State Library and Archives
or sent to AAFA by the named source.
Pages 126-128. [Only pertinent records were copied.]
THE HENRY BASCOME GILL BIBLE
Publisher: A. J. Holman and Co., Philadelphia 1888
Submitted by Mrs. Jane W. Alford (Mrs. W. H.) [AAFA #550], Lewisburg, TN
Submitted by Mrs. Thomas McAdams
FAMILY RECORDS
MARRIAGES
Angie May Gill and Cecil C. Wallace were married Oct. 11th, 1911, Lewisburg, Marshall Co. TN;
J. S. Batey, officiating
Jane Wallace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Wallace, was married to Will Howard Alford, Jr.
on June 26th 1936
Geo. Bascome Wallace was married to Dorothy Dean Davis, in Lewisburg, Mar. 13th 1947
John L. Wallace was married to Joan Sharp in Lewisburg, May 26, 1951
Jane Alford and Paul Gordon McBride of Findley, OH, were married June 5, 1965, at the Church
Street Church of Christ, Lewisburg, TN
Mary Alford and John Leavitt Wellford, Jr., of Chicago, IL, and Memphis, TN, were married
December 23, 1972, at Bridgeclift, home of the bride in Lewisburg, TN
Nancy Alford and Richard Darrel Prossser of Belfast, TN, were married July 7, 1979, at
Bridgeclift, home of the bride in Lewisburg, TN
BIRTHS
Angie May, daughter of H. B. and Mary P. [Yowell] Gill, was born in Marshall County, TN,
the 25th of July 1888
Jane Wallace was born in Lewisburg, TN, Aug. 8th 1913, daughter of C.C. and Angie May
Cecil Gill Wallace was born in Lewisburg, TN, May 17th 1916, son of C.C. and Angie May
John Laws Wallace was born in Lewisburg, TN, Oct. 1st 1919, son of C.C. and Angie May
George Bascome Wallace was born in Lewisburg, TN, Feb 23, 1924, son of C.C. and Angelina
Gill Wallace
William Howard Alford, Jr., son of William Howard and Brownie Jones Alford, was born
Sept. 6, 1904, in Lewisburg, TN
Mary Alford was born to W. H. and Jane Wallace Alford on June 22, 1944 at St. Thomas
Hospital, Nashville, TN
Jane Alford was born to W. H. and Jane Wallace Alford on Apr. 8th 1942 at Vanderbilt
Hospital,Nashville, TN
Nany Alford was born to W. H. and Jane Wallace Alford on July 4th, 1947 at St. Thomas
Hospital, Nashville, TN
Paul Gordon McBride, son of Paul Main and Wadia McBride, was born January 26, 1941, in Jackson, MI
John Leavitt Wellford, Jr., son of John L. and Neta Barham Wellford, was born July 14, 1935,
in Memphis, TN
Richard Darrel Prosser, was born July 3, 1952, in Lewisburg, TN
Amy Wallace McBride was born Jan. 5, 1967, at Evanston Hospital, Evanston, IL
Paul Main McBride II was born Jan. 29, 1969, at Evanston Hospital, Evanston, IL
William Howard Alford McBride was born July 8, 1974, at Evanston Hospital, Evanston, IL
Sarah Glenn McBride was born November 8, 1974 [? or is above date wrong?], at Evanston Hospital,
Evanston, IL
Angie Gill Wellford was born March 9, 1976, at Good Samaritan Hospital, West Palm Beach, FL
John Leavitt Wellford III was born July 3, 1977, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
DEATHS
Cecil C. Wallace died Sept. 18th 1948 at St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville, TN
Angie May Gill Wallace died April 13th 1969, in Lewisburg, TN
Lieut. Cecil Gill Wallace was killed in action in England on Sept. 25th 1944
Lieut. Wallace had returned from his fifth mission over Germany, having flown his plane over
200 miles on one motor, crashing at the Base Field in England. He was buried in the American
Cemetery in Cambridge, England, but at the close of the war was brought to Lewisburg, TN, and
was buried in a double grave with his father, Cecil C. Wallace, in Lone Oak Cemetery.
William Howard Alford, Jr. died October 7, 1972, in Lewisburg, TN,
buried in Lone Oak Cemetery, Lewisburg, TN
AAFA NOTES:This is the family of Jane Wallace Alford, AAFA Member #0550. Her husband was the great-grandson of
William M. [Madison] Alford shown born 1818 in the Bible of John Alford above (2). William M. had a son
John Nelson Alford who was William Howard Sr.'s father and William Howard Jr.'s grandfather.
