NELSON ALVORD born Groom, N.Y. Aug. 14, 1813' died Clay Center, Kan. July 26, 1899; married Lowell, Ill. May 2, 1846. Sarah Ann Bayley, daughter of John and Sarah (Benjamin) Bayley. She was born Northeast Pa. Jan. 12, 1836. Res., near Tonica, Ill. and Clay Center, Kan.
After he was thirty years old, Nelson Alvord became a Baptist minister. He preached in Ill. and moved to Minn. in 1855, where he owned eighty acres of land on the North shore of Lake Minnetouke, in what was then called "Big Woods," but is now covered with summer hotels and cottages. The same year he returned to Ill. and farmed for three years on account of ill health, living on his father's old place.
In May 1860 he went to Kansas as Baptist Missionary. It was then a territory without a public school in it.
Mr. Alvord was chaplain of the 43rd Mo. Infantry Volunteers in the Civil War. After the battle of Glasgow, Mo., in Oct. 1864, the Union Army retreated from that neighborhood leaving their wounded in an old church, among whom was William Nelson Alvord, son of Nelson Alvord. The country was swarming with guerrillas and twice they climbed to the windows and awaited the order of their leader to shoot the wounded soldiers. It was chiefly through the entreaties of Chaplain Alvord, the doctors and a Catholic priest that the order was not given. Mr. Alvord went by night through the country, reached Federal authorities, and so secured relief for the soldiers.
His widow still lives (1906) with her son Theodore.
Source: A genealogy of the descendants of Alexander Alvord, an early settler of Windsor, Conn. and Northampton, Mass., by Samuel Morgan Alvord, published 1908.
(courtesy of Mark Utley)
NELSON ALVORD born Groom, N.Y. Aug. 14, 1813' died Clay Center, Kan. July 26, 1899; married Lowell, Ill. May 2, 1846. Sarah Ann Bayley, daughter of John and Sarah (Benjamin) Bayley. She was born Northeast Pa. Jan. 12, 1836. Res., near Tonica, Ill. and Clay Center, Kan.
After he was thirty years old, Nelson Alvord became a Baptist minister. He preached in Ill. and moved to Minn. in 1855, where he owned eighty acres of land on the North shore of Lake Minnetouke, in what was then called "Big Woods," but is now covered with summer hotels and cottages. The same year he returned to Ill. and farmed for three years on account of ill health, living on his father's old place.
In May 1860 he went to Kansas as Baptist Missionary. It was then a territory without a public school in it.
Mr. Alvord was chaplain of the 43rd Mo. Infantry Volunteers in the Civil War. After the battle of Glasgow, Mo., in Oct. 1864, the Union Army retreated from that neighborhood leaving their wounded in an old church, among whom was William Nelson Alvord, son of Nelson Alvord. The country was swarming with guerrillas and twice they climbed to the windows and awaited the order of their leader to shoot the wounded soldiers. It was chiefly through the entreaties of Chaplain Alvord, the doctors and a Catholic priest that the order was not given. Mr. Alvord went by night through the country, reached Federal authorities, and so secured relief for the soldiers.
His widow still lives (1906) with her son Theodore.
Source: A genealogy of the descendants of Alexander Alvord, an early settler of Windsor, Conn. and Northampton, Mass., by Samuel Morgan Alvord, published 1908.
(courtesy of Mark Utley)
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