Richard was the husband to Elizabeth Alberty, and the father of Ellis Manchell, Sue Marie, William Henry and Walter RIchard
The ]:
Elizabeth Alberty Eaton Alberty-167
1827–1902
BIRTH 01 AUG 1827 • Georgia Cherokee Nation East
DEATH 21 SEP 1902
2nd great-grandmother
The way it was…
Uncle Jack Alberty
By Virgil Talbot
The September 2, 1905 issue
The Westville American carried the following obituary:
Judge J. W. Alberty died on August 29, 1905 at the home of his son, P. W. Alberty, two miles east of town. He was born in the Going Snake District, Cherokee Nation about 8 miles south of Westville in July 1834. He was known as "Uncle Jack" Alberty. In 1852 he married Clara Buffington and they had four sons: Ellis who died in 1880; Moses who died in 1891; B.W. and J.V. survive. A daughter, born to this marriage died in infancy. Clara Alberty died during the Civil War at Goodwater Mission, Chocktaw Nation.
In February 1866, Judge Alberty married Maria Hilderbrand and they had eleven children, six who survive. Four were present at the funeral: P., E.W., Ida (Mrs. E.E. Adair) and Minnie (Mrs. J.T. Adair), Mrs. George Vandeventer and Mrs. Henry Collins of near Vinita were unable to come.
Judge Alberty was elected to the Cherokee Nation Council in 1873 for two years and was Associate Justice of the Cherokee Supreme Court in 1883 for three years.
The Rev. J.M. Hively conducted the services. Judge Alberty was buried in the little cemetery beside the newly built chapel, the first Methodist church built in the Westville area on land donated by Judge Alberty's son, Bluford West Alberty. To this day the cemetery is known as the Alberty Chapel Cemetery. Many of Judge Alberty's descendants still lie in the area.
John Wright Alberty was the son of John Alberty and Mary Wright. Mary was born in 1787, the daughter of Jennie Crittenden and the legendary Jack Wright, who it is said was found after a violent storm at sea by a family named Wright. The baby could only say "Jack" so he became Jack Wright. Mary's husband, John Alberty, was born in 1793 and died in 1873. Both are buried in Alberty Chapel.
Mary's sister, Sallie Wright, married Moses Alberty, who may have been John's brother. Moses was born April 11, 1788 and died May 3, 1877. In 1817, Return Meigs, Indian agent for the Cherokee Nation East, signed the following statement:
"Moses Alberty, having honorably connected himself by marriage to a Cherokee woman has a right to continue his resident in the Cherokee nation, considering himself at the same time amendable to the laws of the United States. Given under my hand and seal of the Cherokee Agency, the 15th day of August 1817. (Signed) Return Meigs"
There was a Samuel Alberty who came into Washington County and settled in the Vineyard Township around Evansville. He married Sarah (who may have been an Agnew). Sam Alberty was born in North Carolina about 1805 or 1806. It is not known if he was of any relation to John and Moses Alberty.
John and Mary Wright Alberty had six children who lived to maturity: Moses, who married Elizabeth Buffington; Frances, who married (1) Dr. John Thornton (2) Joshua W. Willis; John Wright; Cornelius who married Elizabeth Tyner (2) Ruth Ann Thornton; Elizabeth Alberty, who married Richard Eaton; and Jesse Clinton who married (1) Catherine Collins (2) Elmira Vann nee Ward. There is a Moses Alberty (1820-1872) buried at Alberty Chapel who might be John and Mary's son. Also an Elizabeth Alberty (1827-1902) who could be either Moses' wife or Cornelius' wife. There is a Cornelius Alberty also buried here with no date. Richard Eaton (1829-1862) is also buried here.
On October 11, 1829, John Alberty and a total of five family members and five slaves, enrolled from Hightower, Georgia to move West. Earlier in July of that year, Moses Alberty and nine persons and 25 slaves enrolled from Hightower. At the same time Bluford West with two persons enrolled from Sweetwater, Georgia. Bluford West married Nannie Alberty, eldest daughter of Moses and Sallie Wright Alberty. Moses and Sallie later named their youngest son, Bluford West Alberty. He was the first Blueford Alberty and married (2) Eliza Missouri Bushyhead Vann.
The Albertys evidently settled in the Piney area and here John Wright Alberty was born in 1834. He married Clara Buffington West in 1852. She was the daughter of Ellis Buffington and Lydia Wright Snow, sister of Mary and Sallie. Ellis Buffington and this family descended Thomas Mitchell Buffington, chief of the Cherokees, and Owen, Ernest and Faye Nell Buffington of Westville.
The Albertys, Buffingtons, Wrights and Wests were very much intertwined. Clara Buffington first married Ellis West, son of Jacob and Sallie Harlan West. They had a daughter, Charlotte Belle West who married (1) Jacob West Markham (2) William Lavesque Wilder. John Wright and Clara Buffington Alberty's children have already been listed in the obituary at the beginning of this article. Their son Bluford West Alberty married Louvina Jane Lewis Adair. He was a teacher and well known political figure, being Adair County's first county judge. He and his brother Joseph Vann Alberty survived their father.
John Wright Alberty's second wife, Maria Hilderbrand, was born in 1842, the daughter of David Hildebrand and Elizabeth McCarty and granddaughter of the German John Hildebrand and Susannah Womancatcher. She was a first cousin of Stephen Hildebrand, who married Pauline Beck and operated the Hildebrand (Beck) Mill on Flint Creek until the Civil War. Pauline Beck Hildebrand was accidentally shot in 1872 by Ezekiel Proctor in an argument with James Kesterson. Proctor's mother-in-law was Rachel Hildebrand, Stephen's sister.
The Moses Alberty who died in 1872 and was probably John Wright's brother, was killed at the Proctor-Beck shootout at the Whitmire School which was serving as the Goingsnake Courthouse at the time. Moses Alberty was representing Proctor at the trial for the shooting of Pauline Beck Hildebrand. In the microfilm records of the Cherokee Nation, Goingsnake District CHN 39, Volume 111, Page 73 is the following schedule of property and effects belonging to Moses Alberty deceased: 1 steam mill $2500.00; 2 log wagons $40.00; 2 log chains $6.00; 8 mules @ $80.00 each $640.00; 1 mare & colt $85.00; 1 year old colt $25.00; Blacksmith tools $25.00; 1 pair cart wheels $4.00; 1 feather bed $12.00; 1 improvement $815.50; 2 loading chains $15.50; 1 2-horse wagon $45.50; 1 pair of wheels $4.50; 2 cows and calves $30.00; and 15 hogs $30.00. The "improvement" was the Alberty home and farmstead, since only such buildings and other improvements belonged to the individual and the land belonged to the entire Cherokee Nation. Since this is dated 1872 it is most likely the estate of Moses Alberty who was killed at the Proctor trial, since on Page 95 of the same records if listed Betsey Alberty as administrator of the Moses Alberty estate.
A note against the estate in the amount of $3229.60 was presented by R.M. Bean and was paid in full October 1, 1872. A due bill to Wesley Drake for $175 "in good fine lumber @ $1.75 per hundred" dated 25 Feb 1871, was "settled in full". It is interesting to note on Page 93 in the July Term of Goingsnake Court, Polly Hildebrand Kesterson's estate is listed at $4072.00 including one-half interest in a mill at $2,500.00.
In 1897, Bluford West Alberty donated land and helped in the building of a Methodist Church near his home. It was the first Methodist church built in the area and became known as the Alberty Chapel. It was here that services for his father were held in 1905 and his remains were laid to rest beside his second wife in the cemetery on the hill that is known to this date as Alberty Chapel Cemetery.
The ]:
Elizabeth Alberty Eaton Alberty-167
1827–1902
BIRTH 01 AUG 1827 • Georgia Cherokee Nation East
DEATH 21 SEP 1902
2nd great-grandmother
The way it was…
Uncle Jack Alberty
By Virgil Talbot
The September 2, 1905 issue
The Westville American carried the following obituary:
Judge J. W. Alberty died on August 29, 1905 at the home of his son, P. W. Alberty, two miles east of town. He was born in the Going Snake District, Cherokee Nation about 8 miles south of Westville in July 1834. He was known as "Uncle Jack" Alberty. In 1852 he married Clara Buffington and they had four sons: Ellis who died in 1880; Moses who died in 1891; B.W. and J.V. survive. A daughter, born to this marriage died in infancy. Clara Alberty died during the Civil War at Goodwater Mission, Chocktaw Nation.
In February 1866, Judge Alberty married Maria Hilderbrand and they had eleven children, six who survive. Four were present at the funeral: P., E.W., Ida (Mrs. E.E. Adair) and Minnie (Mrs. J.T. Adair), Mrs. George Vandeventer and Mrs. Henry Collins of near Vinita were unable to come.
Judge Alberty was elected to the Cherokee Nation Council in 1873 for two years and was Associate Justice of the Cherokee Supreme Court in 1883 for three years.
The Rev. J.M. Hively conducted the services. Judge Alberty was buried in the little cemetery beside the newly built chapel, the first Methodist church built in the Westville area on land donated by Judge Alberty's son, Bluford West Alberty. To this day the cemetery is known as the Alberty Chapel Cemetery. Many of Judge Alberty's descendants still lie in the area.
John Wright Alberty was the son of John Alberty and Mary Wright. Mary was born in 1787, the daughter of Jennie Crittenden and the legendary Jack Wright, who it is said was found after a violent storm at sea by a family named Wright. The baby could only say "Jack" so he became Jack Wright. Mary's husband, John Alberty, was born in 1793 and died in 1873. Both are buried in Alberty Chapel.
Mary's sister, Sallie Wright, married Moses Alberty, who may have been John's brother. Moses was born April 11, 1788 and died May 3, 1877. In 1817, Return Meigs, Indian agent for the Cherokee Nation East, signed the following statement:
"Moses Alberty, having honorably connected himself by marriage to a Cherokee woman has a right to continue his resident in the Cherokee nation, considering himself at the same time amendable to the laws of the United States. Given under my hand and seal of the Cherokee Agency, the 15th day of August 1817. (Signed) Return Meigs"
There was a Samuel Alberty who came into Washington County and settled in the Vineyard Township around Evansville. He married Sarah (who may have been an Agnew). Sam Alberty was born in North Carolina about 1805 or 1806. It is not known if he was of any relation to John and Moses Alberty.
John and Mary Wright Alberty had six children who lived to maturity: Moses, who married Elizabeth Buffington; Frances, who married (1) Dr. John Thornton (2) Joshua W. Willis; John Wright; Cornelius who married Elizabeth Tyner (2) Ruth Ann Thornton; Elizabeth Alberty, who married Richard Eaton; and Jesse Clinton who married (1) Catherine Collins (2) Elmira Vann nee Ward. There is a Moses Alberty (1820-1872) buried at Alberty Chapel who might be John and Mary's son. Also an Elizabeth Alberty (1827-1902) who could be either Moses' wife or Cornelius' wife. There is a Cornelius Alberty also buried here with no date. Richard Eaton (1829-1862) is also buried here.
On October 11, 1829, John Alberty and a total of five family members and five slaves, enrolled from Hightower, Georgia to move West. Earlier in July of that year, Moses Alberty and nine persons and 25 slaves enrolled from Hightower. At the same time Bluford West with two persons enrolled from Sweetwater, Georgia. Bluford West married Nannie Alberty, eldest daughter of Moses and Sallie Wright Alberty. Moses and Sallie later named their youngest son, Bluford West Alberty. He was the first Blueford Alberty and married (2) Eliza Missouri Bushyhead Vann.
The Albertys evidently settled in the Piney area and here John Wright Alberty was born in 1834. He married Clara Buffington West in 1852. She was the daughter of Ellis Buffington and Lydia Wright Snow, sister of Mary and Sallie. Ellis Buffington and this family descended Thomas Mitchell Buffington, chief of the Cherokees, and Owen, Ernest and Faye Nell Buffington of Westville.
The Albertys, Buffingtons, Wrights and Wests were very much intertwined. Clara Buffington first married Ellis West, son of Jacob and Sallie Harlan West. They had a daughter, Charlotte Belle West who married (1) Jacob West Markham (2) William Lavesque Wilder. John Wright and Clara Buffington Alberty's children have already been listed in the obituary at the beginning of this article. Their son Bluford West Alberty married Louvina Jane Lewis Adair. He was a teacher and well known political figure, being Adair County's first county judge. He and his brother Joseph Vann Alberty survived their father.
John Wright Alberty's second wife, Maria Hilderbrand, was born in 1842, the daughter of David Hildebrand and Elizabeth McCarty and granddaughter of the German John Hildebrand and Susannah Womancatcher. She was a first cousin of Stephen Hildebrand, who married Pauline Beck and operated the Hildebrand (Beck) Mill on Flint Creek until the Civil War. Pauline Beck Hildebrand was accidentally shot in 1872 by Ezekiel Proctor in an argument with James Kesterson. Proctor's mother-in-law was Rachel Hildebrand, Stephen's sister.
The Moses Alberty who died in 1872 and was probably John Wright's brother, was killed at the Proctor-Beck shootout at the Whitmire School which was serving as the Goingsnake Courthouse at the time. Moses Alberty was representing Proctor at the trial for the shooting of Pauline Beck Hildebrand. In the microfilm records of the Cherokee Nation, Goingsnake District CHN 39, Volume 111, Page 73 is the following schedule of property and effects belonging to Moses Alberty deceased: 1 steam mill $2500.00; 2 log wagons $40.00; 2 log chains $6.00; 8 mules @ $80.00 each $640.00; 1 mare & colt $85.00; 1 year old colt $25.00; Blacksmith tools $25.00; 1 pair cart wheels $4.00; 1 feather bed $12.00; 1 improvement $815.50; 2 loading chains $15.50; 1 2-horse wagon $45.50; 1 pair of wheels $4.50; 2 cows and calves $30.00; and 15 hogs $30.00. The "improvement" was the Alberty home and farmstead, since only such buildings and other improvements belonged to the individual and the land belonged to the entire Cherokee Nation. Since this is dated 1872 it is most likely the estate of Moses Alberty who was killed at the Proctor trial, since on Page 95 of the same records if listed Betsey Alberty as administrator of the Moses Alberty estate.
A note against the estate in the amount of $3229.60 was presented by R.M. Bean and was paid in full October 1, 1872. A due bill to Wesley Drake for $175 "in good fine lumber @ $1.75 per hundred" dated 25 Feb 1871, was "settled in full". It is interesting to note on Page 93 in the July Term of Goingsnake Court, Polly Hildebrand Kesterson's estate is listed at $4072.00 including one-half interest in a mill at $2,500.00.
In 1897, Bluford West Alberty donated land and helped in the building of a Methodist Church near his home. It was the first Methodist church built in the area and became known as the Alberty Chapel. It was here that services for his father were held in 1905 and his remains were laid to rest beside his second wife in the cemetery on the hill that is known to this date as Alberty Chapel Cemetery.
Richard was the husband to Elizabeth Alberty, and the father of Ellis Manchell, Sue Marie, William Henry and Walter RIchard
The ]:
Elizabeth Alberty Eaton Alberty-167
1827–1902
BIRTH 01 AUG 1827 • Georgia Cherokee Nation East
DEATH 21 SEP 1902
2nd great-grandmother
The way it was…
Uncle Jack Alberty
By Virgil Talbot
The September 2, 1905 issue
The Westville American carried the following obituary:
Judge J. W. Alberty died on August 29, 1905 at the home of his son, P. W. Alberty, two miles east of town. He was born in the Going Snake District, Cherokee Nation about 8 miles south of Westville in July 1834. He was known as "Uncle Jack" Alberty. In 1852 he married Clara Buffington and they had four sons: Ellis who died in 1880; Moses who died in 1891; B.W. and J.V. survive. A daughter, born to this marriage died in infancy. Clara Alberty died during the Civil War at Goodwater Mission, Chocktaw Nation.
In February 1866, Judge Alberty married Maria Hilderbrand and they had eleven children, six who survive. Four were present at the funeral: P., E.W., Ida (Mrs. E.E. Adair) and Minnie (Mrs. J.T. Adair), Mrs. George Vandeventer and Mrs. Henry Collins of near Vinita were unable to come.
Judge Alberty was elected to the Cherokee Nation Council in 1873 for two years and was Associate Justice of the Cherokee Supreme Court in 1883 for three years.
The Rev. J.M. Hively conducted the services. Judge Alberty was buried in the little cemetery beside the newly built chapel, the first Methodist church built in the Westville area on land donated by Judge Alberty's son, Bluford West Alberty. To this day the cemetery is known as the Alberty Chapel Cemetery. Many of Judge Alberty's descendants still lie in the area.
John Wright Alberty was the son of John Alberty and Mary Wright. Mary was born in 1787, the daughter of Jennie Crittenden and the legendary Jack Wright, who it is said was found after a violent storm at sea by a family named Wright. The baby could only say "Jack" so he became Jack Wright. Mary's husband, John Alberty, was born in 1793 and died in 1873. Both are buried in Alberty Chapel.
Mary's sister, Sallie Wright, married Moses Alberty, who may have been John's brother. Moses was born April 11, 1788 and died May 3, 1877. In 1817, Return Meigs, Indian agent for the Cherokee Nation East, signed the following statement:
"Moses Alberty, having honorably connected himself by marriage to a Cherokee woman has a right to continue his resident in the Cherokee nation, considering himself at the same time amendable to the laws of the United States. Given under my hand and seal of the Cherokee Agency, the 15th day of August 1817. (Signed) Return Meigs"
There was a Samuel Alberty who came into Washington County and settled in the Vineyard Township around Evansville. He married Sarah (who may have been an Agnew). Sam Alberty was born in North Carolina about 1805 or 1806. It is not known if he was of any relation to John and Moses Alberty.
John and Mary Wright Alberty had six children who lived to maturity: Moses, who married Elizabeth Buffington; Frances, who married (1) Dr. John Thornton (2) Joshua W. Willis; John Wright; Cornelius who married Elizabeth Tyner (2) Ruth Ann Thornton; Elizabeth Alberty, who married Richard Eaton; and Jesse Clinton who married (1) Catherine Collins (2) Elmira Vann nee Ward. There is a Moses Alberty (1820-1872) buried at Alberty Chapel who might be John and Mary's son. Also an Elizabeth Alberty (1827-1902) who could be either Moses' wife or Cornelius' wife. There is a Cornelius Alberty also buried here with no date. Richard Eaton (1829-1862) is also buried here.
On October 11, 1829, John Alberty and a total of five family members and five slaves, enrolled from Hightower, Georgia to move West. Earlier in July of that year, Moses Alberty and nine persons and 25 slaves enrolled from Hightower. At the same time Bluford West with two persons enrolled from Sweetwater, Georgia. Bluford West married Nannie Alberty, eldest daughter of Moses and Sallie Wright Alberty. Moses and Sallie later named their youngest son, Bluford West Alberty. He was the first Blueford Alberty and married (2) Eliza Missouri Bushyhead Vann.
The Albertys evidently settled in the Piney area and here John Wright Alberty was born in 1834. He married Clara Buffington West in 1852. She was the daughter of Ellis Buffington and Lydia Wright Snow, sister of Mary and Sallie. Ellis Buffington and this family descended Thomas Mitchell Buffington, chief of the Cherokees, and Owen, Ernest and Faye Nell Buffington of Westville.
The Albertys, Buffingtons, Wrights and Wests were very much intertwined. Clara Buffington first married Ellis West, son of Jacob and Sallie Harlan West. They had a daughter, Charlotte Belle West who married (1) Jacob West Markham (2) William Lavesque Wilder. John Wright and Clara Buffington Alberty's children have already been listed in the obituary at the beginning of this article. Their son Bluford West Alberty married Louvina Jane Lewis Adair. He was a teacher and well known political figure, being Adair County's first county judge. He and his brother Joseph Vann Alberty survived their father.
John Wright Alberty's second wife, Maria Hilderbrand, was born in 1842, the daughter of David Hildebrand and Elizabeth McCarty and granddaughter of the German John Hildebrand and Susannah Womancatcher. She was a first cousin of Stephen Hildebrand, who married Pauline Beck and operated the Hildebrand (Beck) Mill on Flint Creek until the Civil War. Pauline Beck Hildebrand was accidentally shot in 1872 by Ezekiel Proctor in an argument with James Kesterson. Proctor's mother-in-law was Rachel Hildebrand, Stephen's sister.
The Moses Alberty who died in 1872 and was probably John Wright's brother, was killed at the Proctor-Beck shootout at the Whitmire School which was serving as the Goingsnake Courthouse at the time. Moses Alberty was representing Proctor at the trial for the shooting of Pauline Beck Hildebrand. In the microfilm records of the Cherokee Nation, Goingsnake District CHN 39, Volume 111, Page 73 is the following schedule of property and effects belonging to Moses Alberty deceased: 1 steam mill $2500.00; 2 log wagons $40.00; 2 log chains $6.00; 8 mules @ $80.00 each $640.00; 1 mare & colt $85.00; 1 year old colt $25.00; Blacksmith tools $25.00; 1 pair cart wheels $4.00; 1 feather bed $12.00; 1 improvement $815.50; 2 loading chains $15.50; 1 2-horse wagon $45.50; 1 pair of wheels $4.50; 2 cows and calves $30.00; and 15 hogs $30.00. The "improvement" was the Alberty home and farmstead, since only such buildings and other improvements belonged to the individual and the land belonged to the entire Cherokee Nation. Since this is dated 1872 it is most likely the estate of Moses Alberty who was killed at the Proctor trial, since on Page 95 of the same records if listed Betsey Alberty as administrator of the Moses Alberty estate.
A note against the estate in the amount of $3229.60 was presented by R.M. Bean and was paid in full October 1, 1872. A due bill to Wesley Drake for $175 "in good fine lumber @ $1.75 per hundred" dated 25 Feb 1871, was "settled in full". It is interesting to note on Page 93 in the July Term of Goingsnake Court, Polly Hildebrand Kesterson's estate is listed at $4072.00 including one-half interest in a mill at $2,500.00.
In 1897, Bluford West Alberty donated land and helped in the building of a Methodist Church near his home. It was the first Methodist church built in the area and became known as the Alberty Chapel. It was here that services for his father were held in 1905 and his remains were laid to rest beside his second wife in the cemetery on the hill that is known to this date as Alberty Chapel Cemetery.
The ]:
Elizabeth Alberty Eaton Alberty-167
1827–1902
BIRTH 01 AUG 1827 • Georgia Cherokee Nation East
DEATH 21 SEP 1902
2nd great-grandmother
The way it was…
Uncle Jack Alberty
By Virgil Talbot
The September 2, 1905 issue
The Westville American carried the following obituary:
Judge J. W. Alberty died on August 29, 1905 at the home of his son, P. W. Alberty, two miles east of town. He was born in the Going Snake District, Cherokee Nation about 8 miles south of Westville in July 1834. He was known as "Uncle Jack" Alberty. In 1852 he married Clara Buffington and they had four sons: Ellis who died in 1880; Moses who died in 1891; B.W. and J.V. survive. A daughter, born to this marriage died in infancy. Clara Alberty died during the Civil War at Goodwater Mission, Chocktaw Nation.
In February 1866, Judge Alberty married Maria Hilderbrand and they had eleven children, six who survive. Four were present at the funeral: P., E.W., Ida (Mrs. E.E. Adair) and Minnie (Mrs. J.T. Adair), Mrs. George Vandeventer and Mrs. Henry Collins of near Vinita were unable to come.
Judge Alberty was elected to the Cherokee Nation Council in 1873 for two years and was Associate Justice of the Cherokee Supreme Court in 1883 for three years.
The Rev. J.M. Hively conducted the services. Judge Alberty was buried in the little cemetery beside the newly built chapel, the first Methodist church built in the Westville area on land donated by Judge Alberty's son, Bluford West Alberty. To this day the cemetery is known as the Alberty Chapel Cemetery. Many of Judge Alberty's descendants still lie in the area.
John Wright Alberty was the son of John Alberty and Mary Wright. Mary was born in 1787, the daughter of Jennie Crittenden and the legendary Jack Wright, who it is said was found after a violent storm at sea by a family named Wright. The baby could only say "Jack" so he became Jack Wright. Mary's husband, John Alberty, was born in 1793 and died in 1873. Both are buried in Alberty Chapel.
Mary's sister, Sallie Wright, married Moses Alberty, who may have been John's brother. Moses was born April 11, 1788 and died May 3, 1877. In 1817, Return Meigs, Indian agent for the Cherokee Nation East, signed the following statement:
"Moses Alberty, having honorably connected himself by marriage to a Cherokee woman has a right to continue his resident in the Cherokee nation, considering himself at the same time amendable to the laws of the United States. Given under my hand and seal of the Cherokee Agency, the 15th day of August 1817. (Signed) Return Meigs"
There was a Samuel Alberty who came into Washington County and settled in the Vineyard Township around Evansville. He married Sarah (who may have been an Agnew). Sam Alberty was born in North Carolina about 1805 or 1806. It is not known if he was of any relation to John and Moses Alberty.
John and Mary Wright Alberty had six children who lived to maturity: Moses, who married Elizabeth Buffington; Frances, who married (1) Dr. John Thornton (2) Joshua W. Willis; John Wright; Cornelius who married Elizabeth Tyner (2) Ruth Ann Thornton; Elizabeth Alberty, who married Richard Eaton; and Jesse Clinton who married (1) Catherine Collins (2) Elmira Vann nee Ward. There is a Moses Alberty (1820-1872) buried at Alberty Chapel who might be John and Mary's son. Also an Elizabeth Alberty (1827-1902) who could be either Moses' wife or Cornelius' wife. There is a Cornelius Alberty also buried here with no date. Richard Eaton (1829-1862) is also buried here.
On October 11, 1829, John Alberty and a total of five family members and five slaves, enrolled from Hightower, Georgia to move West. Earlier in July of that year, Moses Alberty and nine persons and 25 slaves enrolled from Hightower. At the same time Bluford West with two persons enrolled from Sweetwater, Georgia. Bluford West married Nannie Alberty, eldest daughter of Moses and Sallie Wright Alberty. Moses and Sallie later named their youngest son, Bluford West Alberty. He was the first Blueford Alberty and married (2) Eliza Missouri Bushyhead Vann.
The Albertys evidently settled in the Piney area and here John Wright Alberty was born in 1834. He married Clara Buffington West in 1852. She was the daughter of Ellis Buffington and Lydia Wright Snow, sister of Mary and Sallie. Ellis Buffington and this family descended Thomas Mitchell Buffington, chief of the Cherokees, and Owen, Ernest and Faye Nell Buffington of Westville.
The Albertys, Buffingtons, Wrights and Wests were very much intertwined. Clara Buffington first married Ellis West, son of Jacob and Sallie Harlan West. They had a daughter, Charlotte Belle West who married (1) Jacob West Markham (2) William Lavesque Wilder. John Wright and Clara Buffington Alberty's children have already been listed in the obituary at the beginning of this article. Their son Bluford West Alberty married Louvina Jane Lewis Adair. He was a teacher and well known political figure, being Adair County's first county judge. He and his brother Joseph Vann Alberty survived their father.
John Wright Alberty's second wife, Maria Hilderbrand, was born in 1842, the daughter of David Hildebrand and Elizabeth McCarty and granddaughter of the German John Hildebrand and Susannah Womancatcher. She was a first cousin of Stephen Hildebrand, who married Pauline Beck and operated the Hildebrand (Beck) Mill on Flint Creek until the Civil War. Pauline Beck Hildebrand was accidentally shot in 1872 by Ezekiel Proctor in an argument with James Kesterson. Proctor's mother-in-law was Rachel Hildebrand, Stephen's sister.
The Moses Alberty who died in 1872 and was probably John Wright's brother, was killed at the Proctor-Beck shootout at the Whitmire School which was serving as the Goingsnake Courthouse at the time. Moses Alberty was representing Proctor at the trial for the shooting of Pauline Beck Hildebrand. In the microfilm records of the Cherokee Nation, Goingsnake District CHN 39, Volume 111, Page 73 is the following schedule of property and effects belonging to Moses Alberty deceased: 1 steam mill $2500.00; 2 log wagons $40.00; 2 log chains $6.00; 8 mules @ $80.00 each $640.00; 1 mare & colt $85.00; 1 year old colt $25.00; Blacksmith tools $25.00; 1 pair cart wheels $4.00; 1 feather bed $12.00; 1 improvement $815.50; 2 loading chains $15.50; 1 2-horse wagon $45.50; 1 pair of wheels $4.50; 2 cows and calves $30.00; and 15 hogs $30.00. The "improvement" was the Alberty home and farmstead, since only such buildings and other improvements belonged to the individual and the land belonged to the entire Cherokee Nation. Since this is dated 1872 it is most likely the estate of Moses Alberty who was killed at the Proctor trial, since on Page 95 of the same records if listed Betsey Alberty as administrator of the Moses Alberty estate.
A note against the estate in the amount of $3229.60 was presented by R.M. Bean and was paid in full October 1, 1872. A due bill to Wesley Drake for $175 "in good fine lumber @ $1.75 per hundred" dated 25 Feb 1871, was "settled in full". It is interesting to note on Page 93 in the July Term of Goingsnake Court, Polly Hildebrand Kesterson's estate is listed at $4072.00 including one-half interest in a mill at $2,500.00.
In 1897, Bluford West Alberty donated land and helped in the building of a Methodist Church near his home. It was the first Methodist church built in the area and became known as the Alberty Chapel. It was here that services for his father were held in 1905 and his remains were laid to rest beside his second wife in the cemetery on the hill that is known to this date as Alberty Chapel Cemetery.
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