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AAFA Kentucky Bible and Family Records

WALKER-ALFORD BIBLE

By Lynn D. Shelley, #0484
From Published Sources

WALKER FAMILY BIBLE
In the possession of Martin E. Walker, Jr.

• MARRIAGES
  
  
  • H. H. Walker and Alice Edwards married Oct. 7th 1867 at Cincinnati
    
  • H. H. Walker, Jr. and Myrtle Alford married Aug. 25, 1900 (at Lexington, Christian Church)
    
    
    

THE HOLY BIBLE, Holman's Edition
A. J. Holman and Co., No. 1222 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA, 1887
In the possession of Martin E. Walker, Jr., Harrodsburg, KY

• MARRIAGES
  
  
  • Henry H. Walker Sr. and Alice Edwards were married Oct. 7th 1867 at Cincinnati
    
  • G. A. Alford and Louisa J. Hendren were married Dec. 2nd, 1869
    
  • Tom McMurry and Dessie Alford were married Dec. 4th, 1889
    
    
• BIRTHS
  
  
  • Henry H. Walker Jr. was born June 22nd, 1874
    
  • Myrtle Alford was born Oct. 20, 1878
    
  • Henry H. Walker, Sr. was born July 23, 1846
    
  • Alice Edwards was born April 28, 1845
    
  • G. A. Alfordwas born July 7, 1844
    
  • Louisa J. Hendren was born Dec. 8, 1850
    
  • Dessie Alford was born June 26, 1873 [listed as Emma Dessie Dolan with this birthdate, father Granville Alford and mother Lula, on her 1947 Illinois death record.]
    
  • Onias A. Alford was born Aug. 14, 1880
    [Three children below are siblings of Henry H. Walker Jr., children of Henry H. Walker Sr. and Alice Edwards:]
    
  • Willie E. Walker was born July 8, 1868
    
  • Voorhies Walker was born Nov. 26, 1869
    
  • Martin E. Walker was born Jan. 31, 1879
    
    
• DEATHS
  
  
  • Louisa J. Alford departed this life Nov. 20th, 1881
    
  • Henry H. Walker Sr. departed this life Jan. 26, 1883
    
  • Willie E. Walker departed this life Sept. 11th, 1868
    
  • Henry H. Walker Jr. died Feb. 29, 1908
    
  • Martin Edwards Walker Sr. died Oct. 19, 1946
    
  • Voorhies Walker died May 21, 1956
    
    
    

• DEATHS   [additional death dates found in KY Vital Statistics File]
  
  
  • John Baker married Mary Alford
    
  • John McKay married Catherine Alford
    
  • Alexander H. Blue married Ann H. Alford
    
  • John Byars Brown married Susan Alford
    
    

AAFA NOTES: One assumes looking at the names in this Bible that it is the Bible of Myrtle Alford and husband Henry H. Walker, Jr. since they are the first births recorded. Myrtle was a daughter of Granville and either her father's first wife, Louisa Hendren, or his second wife, Sarah J. Goodlett. The 1880 census for Granville and Louisa (Mercer Co., E.D. 134, Sheet 20, Lines 28-33) have two daughters for this couple: Emma, age 7, and Sallie, 2/12. Emma is the Dessie in this Bible record. Their son Onias was born in August, after the 1880 census. Who is Sallie, who appears in no other records, including this Bible, and where is Myrtle??

In 1900 Myrtle is living in Lexington (Fayette Co.) with a cousin Henry Bush. She is age 21, born Oct 1878. Myrtle married H. H. Walker, Jr., there later in the year. In 1910 she is a widow with 0 children, living in Bourbon Co., KY.

Myrtle’s death certificate and her gravestone list her birth year as 1883. Her death certificate and her obituary list her mother as Louise. However, her father’s first wife, Louise, died in 1881 according to Bible record, which lists Myrtle Alford’s birthdate as 20 Oct 1878 as does the 1900 census, but she is not on the 1880 census. Her father married his second wife, Sarah, in 1882. Either Myrtle's 1878 birthdate in this Bible record and on the 1900 census is incorrect, or the 1883 birthdate in other records is incorrect.