AAFA Tennessee Bible and Family Records

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

Bible of Ransford McGregor and Elizabeth B. Alford

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 RECORDS: BIBLE RECORDS AND MARRIAGE BONDS, compiled by Jeannette Tillotson Acklen, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1974, pages 269 and 270:

Records from the Bible of Ransford McGregor and Elizabeth B. Alford (first wife) and Isabella S. Henderson (second wife). Copied from the McGregor Bible now [1974] in the possession of Miss Sallie Tilghman, niece of Ransford McGregor, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee.

MARRIAGES

Ransford McGregor, son of Flowers and Mary McGregor, married Aug. 14, 1832, to Elizabeth B., daughter of William and Sarah Alford [this was William Alford and Sally Waller; see John Alford Bible below]

Ransford McGregor, son of Flowers and Mary McGregor, and Isabella S. Henderson, daughter of James and Margaret Henderson, married Aug. 20, 1834.

BIRTHS

Ransford McGregor, Nov. 11, 1801
Elizabeth B. [Alford] McGregor, March 16, 1815
Elizabeth McGregor, June 11, 1833 [only child of Ransford and Eliz. Alford McGregor]
Isabella H. McGregor, Sept. 8, 1807
James A. McGregor, Sept. 21, 1837
John L. McGregor, July 5, 1839
Violet E. McGregor, Feb. 16, 1842
Joseph D. McGregor, April 16, 1843
William Albert McGregor, July 16, 1845
Ransford P. McGregor, Jan. 1, 1848

DEATHS

Elizabeth B. [Alford] McGregor, June 18, 1833
Elizabeth McGregor, June, 1833
Isabella H. McGregor, Aug. 16, 1849
William Albert McGregor, March 17, 1874.

AAFA NOTES: Elizabeth B. Alford was the daughter of William Alford and Sally Waller.