Sarah May Barber Alford
1917 - 2002
Mrs. Sarah May Alford of Eastland, Texas, age 84, passed away Saturday night at 11:05 PM, January 5, 2002, at Rolling Plains Hospital in Sweetwater, Texas. Services were held at Edwards Funeral Home in Eastland on Tuesday January 8, 2002, at 11:00 AM, lead by Milton Underwood, an elder at the Daugherty Street Church of Christ. Bill Culverhouse led congregational singing. Sarah had been a member of the Daugherty Street Church of Christ since moving to Eastland from Olden in 1981. Burial was in Eastland City Cemetery, by her husband and near her Barber relatives.
Sarah May was born May 23, 1917, the only child of Robert Peyton Barber and Mary Effie Greenwaldt Barber. She was delivered at home by a midwife, north of Mobeetie in Wheeler County, Texas. Robert was born at Rutledge in Crenshaw County, Alabama, and Mary Effie was born in Madison County, Mississippi.
Effie's parents, Charles and Martha Alice Ross Greenwaldt, lived north of De Leon in Comanche County, and they drove their 1916 Model-T Ford car the long distance on dirt roads to Wheeler County to be with Effie when Sarah May was born.
During her youth, Sarah lived with her parents on farms in Wheeler, Comanche, Floyd, Hale, Swisher, Nolan, and Eastland counties. She attended a list of schools, sometimes not being able to get to school due to weather and sickness. Sarah and her parents, greatly effected by hardships during the Great Depression, left the Texas High Plains and returned to farming west of Staff in Eastland County in 1935. Sarah lived for a time with her mother's parents in DeLeon so that she could be near high school. Her parents, during the last three months of Sarah's senior year, rented a room for Sarah in a house of a family friend within short walking distance of Eastland High School, and she graduated in May 1937.
Sarah May Barber married Cecil Alford on April 2, 1941, at her parents' home west of the Staff Community on land where the Lake Leon Bridge is now located. Cecil and Sarah May lived on farms near Staff and Lone Cedar Crossroads, and then moved in November 1953 to the farm north of Olden for 28 years. Sarah moved to Eastland in 1981, after Cecil's death May 7, 1980.
Sarah worked for many years at the hospitals in Ranger and Eastland, and since 1988 as a receptionist and treasured employee at Edwards Funeral Home in Eastland. She loved to study local history and knew many longtime Eastland County residents, since her father's family had come from Rutledge, Crenshaw County, Alabama, to Eastland County in 1889 to the Round Mountain and Staff area. She assisted in editing the Eastland County History book published in 1989, was a charter member of the book committee, and included articles she wrote about her family. She loved to study history in relation to family genealogy and do genealogy research. She was proud that through her father, Robert P. Barber, and her great-grandmother, Sarah Olive Packard Davis (1825-1908), there is lineage back to 1620 and Plymouth, Massachusetts to John Alden, a cooper (barrel maker) and carpenter on the ship Mayflower, and his wife Priscilla Mullins, among the group later called "The Pilgrims."
Sarah's Barber ancestor was Thomas Barber who came on the ship Christian to Windsor, Connecticut in 1635, a 21-year-old apprentice carpenter to build houses for English settlers. Descendants of Thomas Barber lived for many years at Simsbury, CT, where Barber history is well-known. She is a descendant of Noah and Mary Hamlin Packard, who settled at Plainfield, Massachusetts. Noah Packard was a soldier of the Revolution and a descendant of John and Priscilla Alden.
Sarah was a member of the Daughter's of the American Revolution and the Mayflower Society. She made efforts that will be lasting in leaving records of Alford and Barber family history, for her children and grandchildren.
Sarah is survived by sons Norman Alford and wife Vickie of Round Rock, Texas, and Jerry Alford and his wife Susie of Roscoe, Texas. There are five grandchildren, Jason and Lindsey of Round Rock, Misti and Jerad of Roscoe, and Chris Alford of Wichita, Kansas.
Sarah will always be remembered as a faithful, diligent, loving mother and grandmother, who was always concerned for her family. Rightly so, she will be greatly missed.
--by Norman Alford, updated March 2022.
1917 - 2002
Mrs. Sarah May Alford of Eastland, Texas, age 84, passed away Saturday night at 11:05 PM, January 5, 2002, at Rolling Plains Hospital in Sweetwater, Texas. Services were held at Edwards Funeral Home in Eastland on Tuesday January 8, 2002, at 11:00 AM, lead by Milton Underwood, an elder at the Daugherty Street Church of Christ. Bill Culverhouse led congregational singing. Sarah had been a member of the Daugherty Street Church of Christ since moving to Eastland from Olden in 1981. Burial was in Eastland City Cemetery, by her husband and near her Barber relatives.
Sarah May was born May 23, 1917, the only child of Robert Peyton Barber and Mary Effie Greenwaldt Barber. She was delivered at home by a midwife, north of Mobeetie in Wheeler County, Texas. Robert was born at Rutledge in Crenshaw County, Alabama, and Mary Effie was born in Madison County, Mississippi.
Effie's parents, Charles and Martha Alice Ross Greenwaldt, lived north of De Leon in Comanche County, and they drove their 1916 Model-T Ford car the long distance on dirt roads to Wheeler County to be with Effie when Sarah May was born.
During her youth, Sarah lived with her parents on farms in Wheeler, Comanche, Floyd, Hale, Swisher, Nolan, and Eastland counties. She attended a list of schools, sometimes not being able to get to school due to weather and sickness. Sarah and her parents, greatly effected by hardships during the Great Depression, left the Texas High Plains and returned to farming west of Staff in Eastland County in 1935. Sarah lived for a time with her mother's parents in DeLeon so that she could be near high school. Her parents, during the last three months of Sarah's senior year, rented a room for Sarah in a house of a family friend within short walking distance of Eastland High School, and she graduated in May 1937.
Sarah May Barber married Cecil Alford on April 2, 1941, at her parents' home west of the Staff Community on land where the Lake Leon Bridge is now located. Cecil and Sarah May lived on farms near Staff and Lone Cedar Crossroads, and then moved in November 1953 to the farm north of Olden for 28 years. Sarah moved to Eastland in 1981, after Cecil's death May 7, 1980.
Sarah worked for many years at the hospitals in Ranger and Eastland, and since 1988 as a receptionist and treasured employee at Edwards Funeral Home in Eastland. She loved to study local history and knew many longtime Eastland County residents, since her father's family had come from Rutledge, Crenshaw County, Alabama, to Eastland County in 1889 to the Round Mountain and Staff area. She assisted in editing the Eastland County History book published in 1989, was a charter member of the book committee, and included articles she wrote about her family. She loved to study history in relation to family genealogy and do genealogy research. She was proud that through her father, Robert P. Barber, and her great-grandmother, Sarah Olive Packard Davis (1825-1908), there is lineage back to 1620 and Plymouth, Massachusetts to John Alden, a cooper (barrel maker) and carpenter on the ship Mayflower, and his wife Priscilla Mullins, among the group later called "The Pilgrims."
Sarah's Barber ancestor was Thomas Barber who came on the ship Christian to Windsor, Connecticut in 1635, a 21-year-old apprentice carpenter to build houses for English settlers. Descendants of Thomas Barber lived for many years at Simsbury, CT, where Barber history is well-known. She is a descendant of Noah and Mary Hamlin Packard, who settled at Plainfield, Massachusetts. Noah Packard was a soldier of the Revolution and a descendant of John and Priscilla Alden.
Sarah was a member of the Daughter's of the American Revolution and the Mayflower Society. She made efforts that will be lasting in leaving records of Alford and Barber family history, for her children and grandchildren.
Sarah is survived by sons Norman Alford and wife Vickie of Round Rock, Texas, and Jerry Alford and his wife Susie of Roscoe, Texas. There are five grandchildren, Jason and Lindsey of Round Rock, Misti and Jerad of Roscoe, and Chris Alford of Wichita, Kansas.
Sarah will always be remembered as a faithful, diligent, loving mother and grandmother, who was always concerned for her family. Rightly so, she will be greatly missed.
--by Norman Alford, updated March 2022.
Sarah May Barber Alford
1917 - 2002
Mrs. Sarah May Alford of Eastland, Texas, age 84, passed away Saturday night at 11:05 PM, January 5, 2002, at Rolling Plains Hospital in Sweetwater, Texas. Services were held at Edwards Funeral Home in Eastland on Tuesday January 8, 2002, at 11:00 AM, lead by Milton Underwood, an elder at the Daugherty Street Church of Christ. Bill Culverhouse led congregational singing. Sarah had been a member of the Daugherty Street Church of Christ since moving to Eastland from Olden in 1981. Burial was in Eastland City Cemetery, by her husband and near her Barber relatives.
Sarah May was born May 23, 1917, the only child of Robert Peyton Barber and Mary Effie Greenwaldt Barber. She was delivered at home by a midwife, north of Mobeetie in Wheeler County, Texas. Robert was born at Rutledge in Crenshaw County, Alabama, and Mary Effie was born in Madison County, Mississippi.
Effie's parents, Charles and Martha Alice Ross Greenwaldt, lived north of De Leon in Comanche County, and they drove their 1916 Model-T Ford car the long distance on dirt roads to Wheeler County to be with Effie when Sarah May was born.
During her youth, Sarah lived with her parents on farms in Wheeler, Comanche, Floyd, Hale, Swisher, Nolan, and Eastland counties. She attended a list of schools, sometimes not being able to get to school due to weather and sickness. Sarah and her parents, greatly effected by hardships during the Great Depression, left the Texas High Plains and returned to farming west of Staff in Eastland County in 1935. Sarah lived for a time with her mother's parents in DeLeon so that she could be near high school. Her parents, during the last three months of Sarah's senior year, rented a room for Sarah in a house of a family friend within short walking distance of Eastland High School, and she graduated in May 1937.
Sarah May Barber married Cecil Alford on April 2, 1941, at her parents' home west of the Staff Community on land where the Lake Leon Bridge is now located. Cecil and Sarah May lived on farms near Staff and Lone Cedar Crossroads, and then moved in November 1953 to the farm north of Olden for 28 years. Sarah moved to Eastland in 1981, after Cecil's death May 7, 1980.
Sarah worked for many years at the hospitals in Ranger and Eastland, and since 1988 as a receptionist and treasured employee at Edwards Funeral Home in Eastland. She loved to study local history and knew many longtime Eastland County residents, since her father's family had come from Rutledge, Crenshaw County, Alabama, to Eastland County in 1889 to the Round Mountain and Staff area. She assisted in editing the Eastland County History book published in 1989, was a charter member of the book committee, and included articles she wrote about her family. She loved to study history in relation to family genealogy and do genealogy research. She was proud that through her father, Robert P. Barber, and her great-grandmother, Sarah Olive Packard Davis (1825-1908), there is lineage back to 1620 and Plymouth, Massachusetts to John Alden, a cooper (barrel maker) and carpenter on the ship Mayflower, and his wife Priscilla Mullins, among the group later called "The Pilgrims."
Sarah's Barber ancestor was Thomas Barber who came on the ship Christian to Windsor, Connecticut in 1635, a 21-year-old apprentice carpenter to build houses for English settlers. Descendants of Thomas Barber lived for many years at Simsbury, CT, where Barber history is well-known. She is a descendant of Noah and Mary Hamlin Packard, who settled at Plainfield, Massachusetts. Noah Packard was a soldier of the Revolution and a descendant of John and Priscilla Alden.
Sarah was a member of the Daughter's of the American Revolution and the Mayflower Society. She made efforts that will be lasting in leaving records of Alford and Barber family history, for her children and grandchildren.
Sarah is survived by sons Norman Alford and wife Vickie of Round Rock, Texas, and Jerry Alford and his wife Susie of Roscoe, Texas. There are five grandchildren, Jason and Lindsey of Round Rock, Misti and Jerad of Roscoe, and Chris Alford of Wichita, Kansas.
Sarah will always be remembered as a faithful, diligent, loving mother and grandmother, who was always concerned for her family. Rightly so, she will be greatly missed.
--by Norman Alford, updated March 2022.
1917 - 2002
Mrs. Sarah May Alford of Eastland, Texas, age 84, passed away Saturday night at 11:05 PM, January 5, 2002, at Rolling Plains Hospital in Sweetwater, Texas. Services were held at Edwards Funeral Home in Eastland on Tuesday January 8, 2002, at 11:00 AM, lead by Milton Underwood, an elder at the Daugherty Street Church of Christ. Bill Culverhouse led congregational singing. Sarah had been a member of the Daugherty Street Church of Christ since moving to Eastland from Olden in 1981. Burial was in Eastland City Cemetery, by her husband and near her Barber relatives.
Sarah May was born May 23, 1917, the only child of Robert Peyton Barber and Mary Effie Greenwaldt Barber. She was delivered at home by a midwife, north of Mobeetie in Wheeler County, Texas. Robert was born at Rutledge in Crenshaw County, Alabama, and Mary Effie was born in Madison County, Mississippi.
Effie's parents, Charles and Martha Alice Ross Greenwaldt, lived north of De Leon in Comanche County, and they drove their 1916 Model-T Ford car the long distance on dirt roads to Wheeler County to be with Effie when Sarah May was born.
During her youth, Sarah lived with her parents on farms in Wheeler, Comanche, Floyd, Hale, Swisher, Nolan, and Eastland counties. She attended a list of schools, sometimes not being able to get to school due to weather and sickness. Sarah and her parents, greatly effected by hardships during the Great Depression, left the Texas High Plains and returned to farming west of Staff in Eastland County in 1935. Sarah lived for a time with her mother's parents in DeLeon so that she could be near high school. Her parents, during the last three months of Sarah's senior year, rented a room for Sarah in a house of a family friend within short walking distance of Eastland High School, and she graduated in May 1937.
Sarah May Barber married Cecil Alford on April 2, 1941, at her parents' home west of the Staff Community on land where the Lake Leon Bridge is now located. Cecil and Sarah May lived on farms near Staff and Lone Cedar Crossroads, and then moved in November 1953 to the farm north of Olden for 28 years. Sarah moved to Eastland in 1981, after Cecil's death May 7, 1980.
Sarah worked for many years at the hospitals in Ranger and Eastland, and since 1988 as a receptionist and treasured employee at Edwards Funeral Home in Eastland. She loved to study local history and knew many longtime Eastland County residents, since her father's family had come from Rutledge, Crenshaw County, Alabama, to Eastland County in 1889 to the Round Mountain and Staff area. She assisted in editing the Eastland County History book published in 1989, was a charter member of the book committee, and included articles she wrote about her family. She loved to study history in relation to family genealogy and do genealogy research. She was proud that through her father, Robert P. Barber, and her great-grandmother, Sarah Olive Packard Davis (1825-1908), there is lineage back to 1620 and Plymouth, Massachusetts to John Alden, a cooper (barrel maker) and carpenter on the ship Mayflower, and his wife Priscilla Mullins, among the group later called "The Pilgrims."
Sarah's Barber ancestor was Thomas Barber who came on the ship Christian to Windsor, Connecticut in 1635, a 21-year-old apprentice carpenter to build houses for English settlers. Descendants of Thomas Barber lived for many years at Simsbury, CT, where Barber history is well-known. She is a descendant of Noah and Mary Hamlin Packard, who settled at Plainfield, Massachusetts. Noah Packard was a soldier of the Revolution and a descendant of John and Priscilla Alden.
Sarah was a member of the Daughter's of the American Revolution and the Mayflower Society. She made efforts that will be lasting in leaving records of Alford and Barber family history, for her children and grandchildren.
Sarah is survived by sons Norman Alford and wife Vickie of Round Rock, Texas, and Jerry Alford and his wife Susie of Roscoe, Texas. There are five grandchildren, Jason and Lindsey of Round Rock, Misti and Jerad of Roscoe, and Chris Alford of Wichita, Kansas.
Sarah will always be remembered as a faithful, diligent, loving mother and grandmother, who was always concerned for her family. Rightly so, she will be greatly missed.
--by Norman Alford, updated March 2022.
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