AAFA KENTUCKY BIBLE AND FAMILY RECORDS Nancy & John Q. Alford Bible
By Lynn D. Shelley, #0484
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.
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.
NANCY AND JOHN Q. ALFORD BIBLE
In the possession of Mrs. Lee Rice of Wilmore, Jessamine Co., KY
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.
