William Jeffreys Alston

Brief Life History of William Jeffreys

When William Jeffreys Alston was born on 31 December 1800, in Milledgeville, Baldwin, Georgia, United States, his father, Nathaniel Alston, was 25 and his mother, Mary Grey Jeffreys, was 18. He married Martha Cade on 26 August 1824, in Marengo, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Western Division, Walker, Alabama, United States in 1860 and Alabama, United States in 1870. He died on 10 June 1876, in Magnolia, Marengo, Alabama, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Magnolia, Marengo, Alabama, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Jeffreys Alston
1800–1876
Martha Cade
1809–1846
Marriage: 26 August 1824
William Jeffreys Cade Alston
1825–1857
Nathaniel Yancey Alston
1830–1888
Jane Thyrza Alston
1834–1871
Mary Grey Alston
1837–1917
Joseph Erwin Alston
1840–1852
Emma Amanda Augusta Alston
1842–1929
Waldemar Alston
1844–1905

Sources (46)

  • Wm I Alston, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Legacy NFS Source: William I. Alston - birth: 31 December 1800; South Carolina, United States
  • William I. Alston, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"

World Events (8)

1803

France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

1806

Historical Boundaries: 1806: Baldwin, Georgia, United States

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish:

from the Middle English personal name Alstan, which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal names: Æthelstān ‘noble stone’, Ælfstān ‘elf stone’, Ealdstān ‘old stone’, or Ealhstān ‘temple stone’.

habitational name from any of various places called Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Norse personal name Halfdan, these placenames all consist of an Old English personal name + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, for example Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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William Jeffreys Alston (December 31, 1800 – June 10, 1876) was an American slave owner,[1] politician and a United States representative from Alabama. William Jeffreys Alston Member of the U.S. Hous …

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