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AAFA ACTION The Official Publication of the Alford American Family Association Fall 1995 Vol. VIII, No. 2 Words from Wick ow hear this! This is the Captain speaking! It has been some time since I had the opportunity to address the members Nof our wonderful Alford American Family Association. Many of you have heard of a reorganization of AAFA and rewriting of our Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws. There are several reasons changes are needed—not the least of which is that we are really getting bigger. I would not yet say we are “big time,” but we are getting there. Some of the By-Laws and organizational structures Contents we have had have just not worked out. Other changes are necessi- tated by the new Missouri Corporation Laws Handbook which took Words from Wick 1 effect July 1, 1995. Treasurer’s Report 2 During the summer a committee was formed to recommend changes New Member Lineages 3 to the Articles and By-Laws, and its report was submitted to the Reunion Report: Descendants of Board of Directors at our annual meeting on October 13, 1995 in Julius Caesar Alford 8 Decatur, Alabama. The Board approved the revision, with some Who Does What in AAFA? 9 minor amendments, for submission to the general membership for a Eliza vs. James Alford, Monroe vote. As soon as you receive a copy of the amendments and your Co., GA 10 ballot (possibly with this issue), PLEASE help AAFA comply with Obituaries 11 the non-profit corporation laws by returning your marked ballot by John Quincy Adams Alford, the deadline indicated. 1814–1899 22 Colombia-Alabama Connection 25 For those of you who don’t know already, I recently came on-line Alabama Marriage Index, with my puny computer using CompuServe. I was greeted on-line 1936–1969 26 with paeans of joy and rapture. You would think a lost sinner had Internet Addresses of Members 34 been saved. Seriously folks, these computers are great tools but Alfords on the Internet 35 don’t get mesmerized and carried away. The computer is not going “Alfords” in the 1860 Alabama down to the courthouse or the genealogical library and do your Census 39 research for you. Get out there and do some leg work—find out who Spire Warren Alford Follow-Up 46 to talk to at the courthouse, visit libraries and cemeteries, talk to Lockhard H. Alford’s Will 49 people. Don’t just sit there and stare at that stupid computer screen. 1995 Annual Meeting in You hear! [You can reach Wick at [email protected].] Decatur, Alabama 50 See you in Springfield, Missouri! Welcome New AAFA Members 53 Index 54 Lodwick H. Alford President and Chairman of the Board Emeritus Page 2 AAFA ACTION Fall 1995 AAFA Officers Treasurer’s Report Alford American Family Association Prepared by Doris Alford Vetri, AAFA Treasurer P.O. Box 1586 Florissant, MO 63031-1586 E-mail: [email protected] BOARD OF DIRECTORS 20 20 Benjamin F. Alford Marian Alford Hodges Max Ray Alford Alicia Roundy Houston T Paul W. Alford Lynn Shelley TWENTY Raymond Alford Janice S. Smith Nancy Alford Dietrich Pamela Alford Thompson TWENTY DOLLARS Doris Alford Vetri 20 President & Chairman of Board Emeritus Lodwick H. Alford, Capt USNR PRESIDENT Figures as of October 31, 1995 BENJAMIN F. ALFORD, JR. 911 Ivy Court 1992 1993 1994 10/31/95 Wyomissing, PA 19610 Actual Actual Actual Actuals VICE-PRESIDENT REVENUE LYNN D. SHELLEY ANNUAL MEETING 4128.00 5200.00 6933.00 7058.00 1921 E. Nottingham Lane Springfield, MO 65804-7733 DONATIONS 2111.80 2441.00 2219.00 4853.00 E-mail: [email protected] DUES 6073.00 5210.00 6840.00 4502.00 REG FEE (Initial) 388.00 450.00 365.00 315.00 SECRETARY MAX RAY ALFORD RESALE of Items Purchased 1155.45 1736.00 1910.00 2526.70 427 Wheatridge MISC. INCOME 216.35 102.70 562.80 365.89 Mesquite, TX 75150 YR. END ASSETS RESALE 1500.00 2200.00 E-mail: [email protected] TOTAL INCOME 14072.60 16639.70 21030.30 19620.59 TREASURER CARRYOVER FROM 1900.21 4603.49 4071.64 5330.16 DORIS ALFORD VETRI PREVIOUS YEAR 981 Larkspur Place, N. Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 TOTAL FUNDS 15972.81 21243.19 25101.94 24950.75 EDITOR, AAFA ACTION EXPENSES PAMELA ALFORD THOMPSON ADVERTISING 30.00 60.38 50.53 1017 Marilyn Dr. ANNUAL MEETING 3899.71 5219.69 6787.92 6831.71 Mountain View, CA 94040 MISCELLANEOUS 1.00 21.00 53.50 15.00 E-mail: [email protected] POSTAGE & PO BOX 1306.99 1907.88 2011.60 1423.05 POSTAGE QUARTERLY 1574.99 2024.79 1423.81 1633.96 All contents Copyright ©1995 by the PRINTING 60.00 165.50 163.00 176.10 Alford American Family Association unless copyrighted by individual PRINTING QUARTERLY 2779.18 3100.00 3692.18 2800.00 contributors. PURCHASE FOR RESALE 295.48 2090.03 3830.42 3346.21 RESEARCH 195.25 497.12 763.77 105.65 The Alford American Family Association STATIONERY 516.76 751.75 243.00 156.25 is a Missouri corporation which has been exempt from federal income tax by the SUPPLIES 709.96 1333.41 752.05 1288.08 Internal Revenue Service as provided by NON EXPENDABLE ITEMS 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Internal Revenue Code 501 (c7). The Association has no paid staff or employees TOTAL EXPENSES 11369.32 17171.55 19771.78 17776.01 and depends entirely on volunteer workers. ISSN 1082-3212 Fall 1995 AAFA ACTION Page 3 New Member Lineages Prepared by Gil Alford with the help of most of or in previous issues. (Due to space limitations, we do not the members listed. repeat comments. Contact the secretary for back issues.) Those with “8” have comments in this issue, while other Each of the lineages below was sent to the member for footnote numbers are in previous quarterlies. See the review and comment. Appropriate changes and corrections references at the beginning of this set of end notes. were made on those that were returned. Those for which there was no response are being published as is but are Dates are shown as year, month, day. “C”, “ca” or “CA” correct to the best of our knowledge. means about. A “?” means we are not sure or don’t know. A “<” means before the date and “>” means after the date. “E” In coordinating the lineages this time we observed some or “Est” means estimated. Locations are usually expressed disagreement between different members from their branch as a state and county abbreviation. of the family. To the maximum extent possible these differences should be resolved within the branch and a joint Remember that AAFA is not presenting this as proven and common position provided to AAFA. The Associa- factual data. It represents the best we have and is only as tion has grown too large to attempt to reconcile the differ- good as the data reported by members. In a few rare cases ences between family members. there may be some conclusion reached by the compiler. This data does not come from the same computer file used in the The footnote numbers that appear for some records in the compilation of the branch genealogies. Members are far right column refer to comments at the end of the lineages requested to bring differences, errors and omissions to our attention. Membership # and New Member’s Name Pedigree #/ Alford: Name Birth Date & Place Death Date & Place Burial Place (Alford) Foot Reference # Spouse: Name Birth Date & Place Death Date & Place Marriage Date & Place Note # 746 Ralph Elbert Alford, Jr. 1 RAL948MS RALPH ELBERT, JR. 19481221 MS HIND m. BROOME, PATSY 19530415 MS HIND 19710903 MS HIND 2 RAL922MS RALPH ELBERT, SR. 19220605 MS HIND m. PONDER, MARY IRENE 19280304 MS RANK 19441004 MS HIND 4 NAT886MS NATHAN BELL 18860825 MS HIND 19710129 MS COPI COUNTY LINE MS COPI m. OVERBY, SUSIE MAE 18920702 MS SUNF 19760322 MS COPI 19090324 MS HIND 8 WAR863MS WARREN JEFFERSON 18631118 MS RANK 19250103 MS HIND CEDARLAWN MS HIND m. NOBLIN, ELDORA 18651217 MS SCOT 19510823 MS HIND 18831228 MS HIND 16 WAR831GA WARREN JEFFERSON 18310924 GA FAYE 18980301 MS SCOT m. GARRETT, SARAH ELIZ. 183608 AL 19090309 MS SCOT 1857-58 32 SPI807GA SPIRE WASHINGTON 18071001 GA UPSO 1870-71 MS SCOT MT OLIVE MS SCOT m. BRASSELL, SARAH 18110209 GA JONE 1900’s MS SCOT 18290320 GA 64 BRI781NC BRITTAIN WASHINGTON 17810204 NC 18490210 GA PIKE ALFORD GA PIKE 5 m. BRASSELL, BARSHEBA 17850210 NC / GA 18541119 GA FAYE 18050319 GA PIKE 128 ISH749NC ISHAM 17551030 NC 1832 GA TROU 5 m. FERRELL, ANNA 17550515 NC FRAN 1820< GA 1780 E NC 256 LOD740NC LODWICK 1740CA NC m. _____, _____ 512LOD710VA03 LODWICK 1710CA VA NEWK 1787 GA 2 m. 3 _____, ___________ 1024 JAM687VA JAMES 1687CA VA ???? VA 1 m. _____, _____ 2048 JOH645VA JOHN 1645E 17100314 VA NEWK 3 Page 4 AAFA ACTION Fall 1995 Membership # and New Member’s Name Pedigree #/ Alford: Name Birth Date & Place Death Date & Place Burial Place (Alford) Foot Reference # Spouse: Name Birth Date & Place Death Date & Place Marriage Date & Place Note # 747 Janice Boyd Gould 3 hel919ga01 HELLON JANE 19191225 GA MUSC m. 1 BOYD, ENNIS EUGENE 19160823 GA LOWN 198511 GA MUSC 19391222 GA MUSC 6 ROB895GA ROBERT LESLIE 189506 GA 1942 AL RUSS PINE GROVE AL RUSS m. KITE, BESSIE LEE 189103 AL GA MUSC 12 GEO844AL GEORGE 18440320 AL AUTA 19320529 AL RUSS PINE GROVE AL RUSS WASHINGTON A.H.