I have researched family genealogy since year 2001. I always wanted to know about the Alford and Barber ancestors. My mother did extensive research for twenty years with much success and I have possession of her many papers.

There are only five names in our genealogy spanning back 400 years to the ship Mayflower in 1620 at Plymouth, Massachusetts, with John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. John Alden was a carpenter on the ship and remained at Plymouth and married Priscilla Mullins. The five family names in my lineage are Alford, Barber, Davis, Packard, and John and Priscilla Alden. My mother's grandfather, Charles Lewis Greenwaldt, was born at Canajoharie, New York and his father, John Greenwald, came from the area of Stuttgart, Germany about 1850 to Montgomery County, NY. He married the girl he met on the ship to America and they had five sons, born before the Civil War.

My Alford ancestry in America begins in the 1600's, St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, VA. The Alford American Family Association, beginning in the late 1980's, contributed much important research, and my mother was an early member of AAFA. The line is John and James Alford from the mid-1600's, and then Lodowick Alford born in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County.

Lodowick Alford moved to Franklin County, NC. His son, Isham Alford moved to Georgia. His son, Baldy Alford moved to NE Alabama, where Jackson Alford (1830-1900) was born during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson. He is mentioned as "Jackson Alford" or "Jack" Alford, but his full name was probably Andrew Jackson Alford. Jackson Alford married Mary Jane Perry about 1850 and lived with her parents. By 1862 when the Civil War started, Jackson was a farmer in Cherokee County at Turkeytown on the Coosa River, once an important Cherokee village, when he entered the Confederate Army, 48th Alabama Infantry. Jackson brought his family to Burleson County, Texas by 1870, after the Civil War, with the four children Elizabeth, Thomas Jefferson, Julia Ann, and John Allen Alford. Jackson's wife died just after 1880 when they lived near Cameron in MIlam County. By 1882, Jackson was remarried to Mary Gregory and lived at Bald Prairie in Robertson County, where he applied for a Texas Confederate Pension in 1900 and died late that year, assumed to be buried at Bald Prairie Cemetery. The grave site of Mary Jane Perry Alford and Mary Gregory Alford is unknown. Jackson had three brothers who came to the Burleson and Bastrop County area by 1850.

The Barber ancestor is Thomas Barber, who arrived on the ship Christian at Windsor, CT in 1635, a carpenter's apprentice, to build houses for the English who were coming to America. The Barber ancestry at Simsbury, Hartford County, CT is documented in the book published by Dr. Donald S. Barber, 2nd edition 2001, an extensive history of the Connecticut Barbers, Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, CT, and this genealogy work is on a website. I discovered this book in year 2004, emailing with Dr. Barber (born 1928) and purchased one of the last books available. My mother did all her work by studying and letter writing, and building a good library, and she would have loved to have known about this wonderful Barber history. We did not know about Thomas Barber of Simsbury, CT, but my mother suspected that Israel Barber in the 1820-1830 Camden Georgia Census was our ancestor, since we knew that Jared Phelps Barber (1812-1893) was born in Camden, Georgia.

After the Revolution, a descendant Israel Barber left Simsbury at age 21, son of Daniel and Martha Phelps Barber, and made his way as a crewman on a sailing ship, where according to Dr. Don Barber, had some adventures at sea with the British. Israel eventually arrived in Camden County, GA where he married the daughter (maybe Mary Tullis) of a Georgia planter and had a store and livestock plantation. A son was Jared Phelps Barber (1812-1893) who before he married operated a ferry across the St. Mary's River on the Georgia-Florida line licensed to be large enough to carry a wagon and team. J.P. Barber married Mary Eliza Morris in Thomas County, Georgia in 1838 and they farmed in Barbour County, Alabama in 1840 and 1850. By 1860, they lived in Butler County, Alabama, where J.P. Barber had a store and a large farm at Barber's Crossroads. His two sons were too young for the Civil War, and the family did not suffer deaths because of the war. J.P. and Mary Barber remained at Rutledge (formerly Barber's Crossroads) and they are buried at Vernledge Cemetery, near the Barber land, where they have a beautifully marked gravestone. In 1889, their son, Peyton Phelps Barber (1849-1929) and wife Tallulah Agnes Davis, moved their large family to Eastland County, Texas, where the eleventh child, Jared Phelps Barber was born in 1891 on the farm at Round Mountain, near the Staff Community and the Leon River.

This is all an interesting story and Find A Grave continues the important role of helping discover and documenting further information.
-Norman Alford
August 6, 2021, edited 10 Feb 2022.

I have researched family genealogy since year 2001. I always wanted to know about the Alford and Barber ancestors. My mother did extensive research for twenty years with much success and I have possession of her many papers.

There are only five names in our genealogy spanning back 400 years to the ship Mayflower in 1620 at Plymouth, Massachusetts, with John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. John Alden was a carpenter on the ship and remained at Plymouth and married Priscilla Mullins. The five family names in my lineage are Alford, Barber, Davis, Packard, and John and Priscilla Alden. My mother's grandfather, Charles Lewis Greenwaldt, was born at Canajoharie, New York and his father, John Greenwald, came from the area of Stuttgart, Germany about 1850 to Montgomery County, NY. He married the girl he met on the ship to America and they had five sons, born before the Civil War.

My Alford ancestry in America begins in the 1600's, St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, VA. The Alford American Family Association, beginning in the late 1980's, contributed much important research, and my mother was an early member of AAFA. The line is John and James Alford from the mid-1600's, and then Lodowick Alford born in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County.

Lodowick Alford moved to Franklin County, NC. His son, Isham Alford moved to Georgia. His son, Baldy Alford moved to NE Alabama, where Jackson Alford (1830-1900) was born during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson. He is mentioned as "Jackson Alford" or "Jack" Alford, but his full name was probably Andrew Jackson Alford. Jackson Alford married Mary Jane Perry about 1850 and lived with her parents. By 1862 when the Civil War started, Jackson was a farmer in Cherokee County at Turkeytown on the Coosa River, once an important Cherokee village, when he entered the Confederate Army, 48th Alabama Infantry. Jackson brought his family to Burleson County, Texas by 1870, after the Civil War, with the four children Elizabeth, Thomas Jefferson, Julia Ann, and John Allen Alford. Jackson's wife died just after 1880 when they lived near Cameron in MIlam County. By 1882, Jackson was remarried to Mary Gregory and lived at Bald Prairie in Robertson County, where he applied for a Texas Confederate Pension in 1900 and died late that year, assumed to be buried at Bald Prairie Cemetery. The grave site of Mary Jane Perry Alford and Mary Gregory Alford is unknown. Jackson had three brothers who came to the Burleson and Bastrop County area by 1850.

The Barber ancestor is Thomas Barber, who arrived on the ship Christian at Windsor, CT in 1635, a carpenter's apprentice, to build houses for the English who were coming to America. The Barber ancestry at Simsbury, Hartford County, CT is documented in the book published by Dr. Donald S. Barber, 2nd edition 2001, an extensive history of the Connecticut Barbers, Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, CT, and this genealogy work is on a website. I discovered this book in year 2004, emailing with Dr. Barber (born 1928) and purchased one of the last books available. My mother did all her work by studying and letter writing, and building a good library, and she would have loved to have known about this wonderful Barber history. We did not know about Thomas Barber of Simsbury, CT, but my mother suspected that Israel Barber in the 1820-1830 Camden Georgia Census was our ancestor, since we knew that Jared Phelps Barber (1812-1893) was born in Camden, Georgia.

After the Revolution, a descendant Israel Barber left Simsbury at age 21, son of Daniel and Martha Phelps Barber, and made his way as a crewman on a sailing ship, where according to Dr. Don Barber, had some adventures at sea with the British. Israel eventually arrived in Camden County, GA where he married the daughter (maybe Mary Tullis) of a Georgia planter and had a store and livestock plantation. A son was Jared Phelps Barber (1812-1893) who before he married operated a ferry across the St. Mary's River on the Georgia-Florida line licensed to be large enough to carry a wagon and team. J.P. Barber married Mary Eliza Morris in Thomas County, Georgia in 1838 and they farmed in Barbour County, Alabama in 1840 and 1850. By 1860, they lived in Butler County, Alabama, where J.P. Barber had a store and a large farm at Barber's Crossroads. His two sons were too young for the Civil War, and the family did not suffer deaths because of the war. J.P. and Mary Barber remained at Rutledge (formerly Barber's Crossroads) and they are buried at Vernledge Cemetery, near the Barber land, where they have a beautifully marked gravestone. In 1889, their son, Peyton Phelps Barber (1849-1929) and wife Tallulah Agnes Davis, moved their large family to Eastland County, Texas, where the eleventh child, Jared Phelps Barber was born in 1891 on the farm at Round Mountain, near the Staff Community and the Leon River.

This is all an interesting story and Find A Grave continues the important role of helping discover and documenting further information.
-Norman Alford
August 6, 2021, edited 10 Feb 2022.