When William T. Alford was born about 1858, in Kentucky, United States, his father, William Thomas Alford, was 21 and his mother, Serilda Catherine Smith, was 19. He married Luvena B. Hays on 24 December 1884, in Butler, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Warren, Kentucky, United States in 1860 and Greencastle, Warren, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died before 1900.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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habitational name from any of various places called Alford, for example in Somerset, Cheshire and Lincolnshire. The first is named with the Old English female personal name Ealdgȳth + ford ‘ford’. See also Alvord .
variant of Halford (or vice versa).
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