AAFA Kentucky Bible and Family Records

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

From RECORDS OF THE ANDREW HUNTER FAMILY OF LOUISA CO. VIRGINIA, AND JACOB ALFORD FAMILY OF GARRARD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND CHARLES ALFORD FAMILY OF GARRARD COUNTY, KENTUCKY , compiled from Court Records, Bibles and Tombstones by Jessamine Bland James, Tuscon, AZ: The Compiler, c1954, page 46.

"Records from family Bible in possession of Mrs. Lee Rice of Wilmore, Jessamine Co. KY (Note: the original Alford Bible was given to Mrs. Samuel Myers, a daughter of Mary E. Alford and was burned when her house burned and all contents were destroyed)"

BIRTHS

• Nancy Alford was born Oct. 19, 1819 [family of John Q. Alford]
• John Q. Alford was born Jan. 1, 1822
• Mary E. Alford was born Oct. 16, 1846
• Sarah K. Alford was born Oct. 22, 1849
• Jesse Alford was born Aug. 22, 1852
• Josie M. Alford was born June 15, 1855
• Rosa A. Alford was born Oct. 12, 1858
• John W. Alford was born Dec. 8, 1859
• Henry C. Alford was born May 15, 1860
• Frank W. Alford was born Jan. 20, 1865
• James W. Bland was born May 8, 1866 [child of Mary E. Alford and first husband]
• Minnie Lee Dunn was born Sept. 6, 1875 [child of Mary E. Alford and second husband]

DEATHS

• Lucindy Alford departed this life Jan. 30, 1862 [mother of Nancy Alford]
• Jesse Alford departed this life Dec. 6, 1873 [father of Nancy Alford]
• John Alford departed this life Mar. 6, 1845 [father of John Quilla Alford]
• Nancy C. Alford departed this life May 14, 1867 [mother of John Quilla Alford]
• Rosa Alford departed this life Oct. 11, 1871 [sister of Nancy Alford]
• Henry C. Alford departed this life Nov. 25, 1894 [brother of Nancy Alford]
• Henry Clay Alford departed this life Jan. 8, 1861 [son of John Q. and Nancy]
• John Q. Alford departed this life Feb. 29, 1888 [husband of Nancy]
• Jesse Alford departed this life Oct. 16, 1892 [son of Nancy and John Q.]
• Mary E. [Alford] Bland departed this life March 18, 1880 [dau. of Nancy and John Q.]
  Mary Bland is buried in Fayette Co. KY
• Josie [Alford] Rice departed this life Dec. 19, 1895 [dau. of Nancy and John Q.]
  Josie Rice is buried in Shawnee Run Baptist Church Cemetery, Mercer Co. KY
• John W. Alford departed this life Jan. 26, 1896 [son of Nancy and John Q.]
• Nancy Alford departed this life July 29, 1900
  Nancy Alford and John Q. Alford buried in Nicholasville, KY
• Frank Alford departed this life Sept. 27, 1920 [son of Nancy and John Q.]
• Sarah M. [Alford] Rice departed this life Dec. 2, 1932 [dau. of Nancy and John Q.]
• Milton Rice departed this life 1935, born 1855 [husband of Josie M. and Sarah "Mattie" Alford]

MARRIAGES

• Milton W. Rice & Josie Alford married Dec. 27, 1877
• Milton Rice & Mattie Alford married Aug. 17, 1907 in Lexington, KY
• Mary E. Alford married Alexander Bland, May 29, 1865, Garrard Co. KY

AAFA NOTES: This Bible obviously belonged to Nancy Alford and her husband John Quilla Alford, who was her first cousin. According to the introductory paragraph the Bible passed to Mary E. Alford's daughter, Mrs. Samuel Myers. It is not known whether she is identical to the Minnie Lee Dunn, born in 1875 or whether there were other daughters whose names are not found in the Bible records. Mary E. was first married to Alexander Bland and second (before 1875?) to Charles Edward Dunn but AAFA does not have the date of the second marriage. Was she buried as Mary Bland or Mary Dunn?? Milton Rice was first married to Josephine M. Alford and several years after her death, he married her sister Sarah Martha "Mattie" Alford. Henry Clay died as an infant and Jesse, Rosa Ann, and Frank W. never married. Rosa Ann died Feb. 23, 1925, but it is not known why her death is not listed in the Bible or when the Bible burned.
All of this family are descendants of Jacob and Nancy Hunter Alford.