Alpheus Gifford

Brief Life History of Alpheus

When Alpheus Gifford was born on 28 August 1793, in Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Noah Samuel Gifford, was 34 and his mother, Mary Bowerman, was 34. He married Anna Nash on 27 April 1817, in Butternuts, Otsego, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Rutland Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States in 1830. In 1834, at the age of 41, his occupation is listed as proselytizing in Northern States Mission, United States. He died on 25 December 1841, in Niota, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Alpheus Gifford
1793–1841
Anna Nash
1800–1879
Marriage: 27 April 1817
Mary Elizabeth Gifford
1818–1880
Ichabod Bowerman Gifford
1819–1896
Samuel Kendall Gifford
1821–1907
William Pitts Gifford
1823–1843
Henry Dill Gifford
1825–1901
Rhoda Gifford
1827–1904
Rachel Gifford
1829–1846
Moses Gifford
1833–1888
Enos Curtis Gifford
1837–1837
Heber Chase Kimball Gifford
1839–1843

Sources (52)

  • Alkas Gifford, "United States Census, 1830"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Alpheus Gifford - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Alpheus Gifford
  • Alpheus Gifford in the U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900

World Events (8)

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

1804

Historical Boundaries: 1804: Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

Name Meaning

English (of Norman origin): variant of Giffard, either from the Middle English personal name Gifard, derived from an Old French name of this form deriving from ancient Germanic geb- ‘give, gift’ + hard- ‘hardy, brave’, or perhaps sometimes a nickname from Old French gif(f)ard ‘chubby-cheeked, bloated’.

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

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