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1 Known Descendants of WILLIAM HENRY ALFORD This is not the typical AAFA genealogy. These descendants of Job Alford are from a file created by John A. Rogers, AAFA #0544 who is the AAFA authority on Job Descendants. John has researched these folks to a greater degree that AAFA had researched most other Alfords. John also includes more information in his report than is found in a typical AAFA genealogy. Nevertheless it is a work in progress and probably is not complete and with some error. Generations 5-6 have been removed to protect the privacy of most of the living. The work contains many names but the only ones listed in the index are those listed within the registry system. 1. William Henry Alford #331 b. 1811, Wake County, North Carolina, (son of Job Alford #325 and Sarah Ann Turner? #326) m. Sarah Elizabeth "Betsy" Stilwell #1099, b. 1809, North Carolina, (daughter of Shadrack Stilwell #9156 and _____ Unknown #9157) d. ABT. 1875, Harris County, Georgia, buried: ABT. 1875, Harris County, Georgia. William died ABT. 1867, Georgia, buried: ABT. 1867, Unknown. William Henry Alford was Job's 5th son. He was born in 1811 in Wake County, North Carolina, shortly before the family left for South Carolina and then Georgia. Most people called him "Bill." He came to Jones County, Georgia, as a young child, with his family around 1817. In 1823, as a preteen, he moved with his parents to the Redbone District (555) of Upson County, Georgia, northeast of Thomaston, where he lived until 1828, when the family moved to the Black Ankle District (494), southeast of Thomaston. In the 1829 the family moved to the Dupree's District of Talbot County, Georgia. In 1830 he was still living with his parents in nearby Talbot County, Georgia. "Bill" was married on December 29, 1831 to Sarah Elizabeth "Betsy" Stilwell (1809-bef 1880), daughter of Shadrick Stillwell, in nearby Upson County, Georgia, by Zachariah H. Gordon, Minister of the Gospel. In 1832 he drew land in Talbot County in the 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery, where he settled with his newly married wife. He moved to Harris County, Georgia around 1833 (letter addressed to him at Hamilton Post Office in 1833), where he was still living according to the 1840 and 1850 Harris County (just north of Columbus, Ga.) census The 1850 census shows him living next door to his oldest son, Thomas Jefferson Alford, as well as owning 300 acres of land. William probably lived in Harris County through at least 1863 (listed on the 1860 Harris County census in Mountain Hill), as some of his children moved from there to Bartow County, Georgia (near Rome) after the Civil War around 1866. There is some uncertainty about William's whereabouts after the Civil War. Elizabeth Stilwell Alford was shown living in Hamilton, Ga. as head of household on June 30, 1870. William could possibly have died during the Civil War or soon thereafter. There is also an unproven family legend that "Bill" drowned in the Chattahoochie River near Columbus. His granddaughter-in-law passed on the story that he had drowned in 1834 to her daughter Laura Alford White. It is my guess that she meant 1864, since William Henry was definitely alive until 1860, but missing from 1870 and thereafter. Children: + 2. i Thomas Jefferson Alford #1100 b. 1832. + 3. ii Amanda L. Alford #1101 b. 1835. + 4. iii William Floyd Alford #1102 b. 2 Nov 1837. + 5. iv Miranda Elizabeth Alford #1103 b. OCT 1840. + 6. v Matilda Laura "Lulu" Alford #1104 b. 1843. 7. vi Job L. Alford #1105 b. 19 Jan 1846, Harris County, Georgia, m. Never Married #8223. Job died 28 Dec 1873, Bartow County, Georgia, buried: 30 Dec 1873, Old Chulio Road Cemetery in Bartow Co. (53) Job L. Alford, son of William Henry Alford (named after his grandfather), was born on January 19, 1844 in Harris County, Georgia. During the Civil War, Job served in the 3rd batallion of the Georgia Infantry. After the war he moved to Bartow County around 1866 with two of his brothers, settling on Iron Hill Road outside of Rome. He 2 never married, and was killed at a dance on December 28, 1873 in Bartow County. He is buried in Bartow County in the old cemetery on the right side of Chulio Road going to Cartersville from Rome. + 8. vii John Lafayette Alford #1106 b. 22 Oct 1847. + 9. viii Mary Ann Elizabeth Alford #1107 b. 23 Sep 1848. 10. ix Sarah Alford #12864 b. 1849. 11. x Lucinthia Alford #9736 b. 1853, Harris County, Georgia, m. _____ Unknown #12021. Lucinthia died AFT. 1870, Unknown, buried: Unknown. Second Generation 2. Thomas Jefferson Alford #1100 (1.William1) b. 1832, Upson County, Georgia, m. Mary E. Adams #2641, b. 1835, Georgia, (daughter of John Adams #16282 and Mary "Polly" Downs #16283) d. ABT. 1890, White County, Arkansas, buried: ABT. 1890, Unknown. Thomas died ABT. 1895, Garner (White County), Arkansas, buried: ABT. 1895, Unknown. Thomas Jefferson Alford. Thomas was born in 1832 in Upson County, Georgia. In 1836 he moved with his parents to Harris County, Georgia and was still living there in 1850, when he was listed on the 1850 Harris County federal census, living right next door to his father, William Henry Alford. On February 4, 1850 he married Mary E. Adams, a Choctaw Indian girl, (1835-abt 1890) in Harris County. In 1860, Thomas was living in the Hamilton district of Harris County. On July 15, 1861, Thomas joined Company G of the 20th Regiment of the Georgia Infantry CSA. He left with the "Ivey Guards" for Richmond, Virginia on July 21, 1861. Thomas was admitted to the Chimborazo Hospital #2 in Richmond on October 18, 1861 with bronchitis and a hand injury. He was discharged on December 18, 1861 due to his hand injury and bronchitis. After the Civil War (around 1867-68), Thomas moved his family to Kemper County, Mississippi (town of DeKalb), about the same time his brother, William Floyd Alford, left Harris County for Bartow County, Georgia. Thomas was in Mississippi only a short time (listed on Kemper County, Ms. Census of 1870) and moved to White County, Arkansas in 1871. On December 26, 1871 he filed for Homestead at Little Rock for his land in Section 17, Township 5, Range 7 in White County. According to family legend, the move to Arkansas was an effort to try to find his wife's parents, who were forced from Georgia in the late 1830s on the Trail of Tears. I have come to believe that this legend may not be entirely true. Who appears to be the father of Mary Adams, John Adams, is living next door to Thomas and Mary in Harris County in 1860. The Trail of Tears happened in 1838. Mary's mother also appears to have been dead in 1860. In 1875 he was on the list of inhabitants in the Lebanon Community near the town of Garner in White County. On March 20, 1877 Thomas bought land in White County. The 1880 census of White County, Arkansas has him still there with his growing family. In 1890, Thomas was on the tax list for White County. His first wife, Mary apparently died about 1890, as on September 12, 1892, Thomas married Mrs. F.A. Holmes in neighboring Lonoke County, Arkansas. Nothing else is known of him, except that his eldest son, Andrew Jackson Alford was still living in White County, Arkansas in 1900. Some of his family wound up in Rusk County, Texas by 1900. Children: + 12. i Andrew Jackson Alford #9429 b. 7 Jan 1851. + 13. ii Amanda Melvina Alford #9430 b. 15 May 1852. + 14. iii Frances Josephine "Fanny" Alford #9431 b. 1855. + 15. iv Phada Ada Alford #9433 b. 1858. + 16. v Thomas Jefferson Alford, Jr. #9434 b. 1861. + 17. vi Ida Alford #9435 b. 1862. + 18. vii Christina Alford #9436 b. 1863. + 19. viii Juliet Alford #9437 b. 1866. + 20. ix William Henry "Billie" Alford #9438 b. MAR 1870. + 21. x John A. Alford #9439 b. 1872. 3 22. xi Anna Lisa Alford #9587 b. 1874, White County, Arkansas, m. Never Married #9588. Anna died ABT. 1878, White County, Arkansas, buried: ABT. 1878, Unknown. 3. Amanda L. Alford #1101 (1.William1) b. 1835, Harris County, Georgia, m. Benjamin H. Young #4999, b. Unknown, d. Cass County, Texas, buried: Cass County, Texas. Amanda died AFT. 1887, Cass County, Texas, buried: AFT. 1887, Cass County, Texas. (49) Amanda L. Alford, who was born in 1835 in Upson County, Ga. On September 8, 1852, she married Benjamin H. Young in Harris County, Ga. In 1860 (census), Amanda and Ben Young were living in the Mountain Hill area of Harris County, two houses away from her father. Ben worked as a chair maker in a local factory. Not much is known about Amanda, except that she moved to Bartow County, Ga. around 1871, and in 1887 to Cass County, Texas. The only child I know they had was: Georgia Young (1853-unknown / b. Harris County - note: Georgia was living in Hamilton, Ga with John Gornar as a boarder in 1870). Note: There is an Amanda Gregg also living with John Gornar in Hamilton who was born in 1835. This could be Amanda Alford, by a second marriage to a Mr. Gregg. Children: 23. i Georgia Young #12003 b. 1853, Harris County, Georgia, m. _____ Unknown #12004. Georgia died AFT. 1890, Unknown, buried: AFT. 1890, Unknown. 4. William Floyd Alford #1102 (1.William1) b. 2 Nov 1837, Harris County, Georgia, m.