THE WORKS OF JONATHAN K. T. SMITH
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2003
***Extracted with permission from the author
George Washington ALFORD
Died, in Davidson county, Tennessee, on
the 18th of Aug. 1834, Mr. George Washington ALFORD, son of Mr.
John ALFORD, aged 40 years. Mr. ALFORD was born in Amherst county,
Virginia. He was a man of virtuous life, strict morality and endeared
himself not only to those who slept in his bosom, a beloved wife
and six children, but to all who knew him. But yet he was without
the one thing needful. At the first camp meeting at Smyrna, the
last of July, he was a seeker of religion and went away from that
meeting with his mind deeply interested for the salvation of the
gospel. He was soon after taken sick with a billious fever which,
in thirteen days laid his manly form in the embraces of death.
During his sickness his mind earnestly struggled to obtain the
forgiveness of his sins and be at peace with his maker and through
the wonderful condescension of god, on Sunday, the day before
his death, he obtained perfect redemption through the blood of
Christ. As he was now on the confines of that eternal world, he
was a solemn preacher to those who gathered around his bed side.
Well did he fill up the few hours that remained to him below the
skies with the most thrilling exhortations and triumphant expressions
of praise.
Taking a tender leave of his wife, children
and friends, he died in the arms of victory, having come in as
an eleventh hour laborer, but receiving the same immortal reward
as those who had borne the heat and burden of the day.
Forbes
Elizabeth D. MARSHALL w/o D. J. H. MARSHALL;
d/o Dabney and Elizabeth WARE, born Amherst Co., Va., Sept. 16,
1818; md 1844; died Marshall Co., Miss., Aug. 14, 1852.
Rev. John BROWN born Amherst Co., Va., Dec.
28, 1777; died Garrard Co., Ky., August 19, 1853; licensed as
MEC preacher, Jan. 20, 1810; moved to Garrard Co., Ky. 1817 where
his wife died in less than 2 years, with whom he had a son, surviving;
md again /no name given/ and had one daughter, surviving.
Henry G. PAGETT born Amherst Co., Va., Feb.
1, 1796; died Williamson Co., Tenn., Oct. 4, 1853; md Mary ANDREWS
1821 and settled in Williamson Co.; left widow and 10 children.
Francis Marion BURRUS, Rutherford Co., Tenn.,
born July 25, 1838; died July 3, 1854. His father, Lafayette BURRUS,
born Amherst Co., Va., Nov. 12, 1799; died Oct. 7, 1854.
Daniel NASH died Marion Co., Ky., Jan. 13,
1854 in her 69th year; born Amherst Co., Va.; moved to Ky. in
1837
July-December 1855
MARY CHILDRESS born Henrico Co., Va., 1774;
md James CHILDRESS, who died leaving her with 2 small daughters
(who also later married); moved to Amherst Co., Va., then she
moved to Tenn. in 1823. 0bituary was submitted by her grandchild,
Theo. P. CRUTCHER.
Mary MICKLE, nee LACKEY, w/o Rev. John C.
MICKLE, died Montgomery Co., Tenn., July 18, 1855 aged 59 years,
7 months; md Oct. 11, 1851, Christian Co., Ky.; born and raised
in Amherst Co., Va.
Pleasant M. MARTIN born Amherst Co., Va.,
Sept. 15, 1795; md Rebecca PRESTON, June 24, 1817; moved to Allen
Co., Ky. 1837; joined MECS 1847; died Dec. 25, 1856.
Edwin TUCKER s/o Isaac and Elizabeth TUCKER
b Amherst Co., Va., May 18, 1817; d Taylor Co., Ky., April 11,
1870; md Diana d/o STARKEY and Nancy HAYES, April 21, 1849 in
Marion Co., Ky.; joined MEC in 18th year.
Rev. Gideon McDANIEL b Rutherford Co., Tenn.,
Dec. 8, 1800; d Aug. 13, 1870; parents returned to Amherst Co.,
Va. where he was raised; md Mary L. STRANGE, 1823, of Bedford
Co., Va.; moved in 1829 to Cumberland Co., Ky.; in 1834 moved
to Warren Co., Ky. where he died; died from diarrhea.
Nancy C. WALTERS d/o Capt. Matthew and Lucy
C. LIVELY b Amherst Co., Va., March 1817; d March 22, 1871; moved
to Ky.; md Rev. James H. WALTERS, 1835.
February 10, 1872
Shadrach TENISON buried January 25, 1872;
died in his 86th year; born Amherst Co., Va.; moved to Ky. 1820.
July 12, 1873
Ann W. LANIER d/o Rev. Edmund LANIER born
Amherst Co., Va. and came to Nashville, Tenn. 1819; she and sister,
Lucy B. LANIER, taught school at the old Nashville Female Academy;
died July 5, 1873; buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Dr. John Hughes ROBINSON born Amherst Co.,
Va. June 1800; moved with family to Green Co., Ky. 1815; educated
as a doctor; moved to Marshall Co., Tenn. 1825; md Myra W. BOYD,
Nov. 1, 1835; about 5'10" tall; joined Methodist Church in
1851; died Sept. 4, 1874.
February 19, 1876
Colonel John B. SALE oldest son Rev. Alexander
and Sarah BARRUSS SALE, born Amherst Co. Va. June 7, 1818; died
Aberdeen, Miss. Jan. 24, 1876; family moved to near Courtland,
Ala. in 1820; his father was a founder of LaGrange College, Ala.;
studied law and moved to Aberdeen.
June 3, 1876
Sarah H. BARRY, nee PEYTON, wf Judge Thomas
BARRY, died Gallatin, Tenn. May 7, 1876; sister of Hon. Bailie
PEYTON.
Note: Virginia Genealogies by Horace E.
HAYDEN (Washington, D. C. 1931), pages 522-524. SARAH H. PEYTON
dau John PEYTON (1755-1833) and wife, Margaret (HAMILTON) PEYTON;
born October 17, 1810; md Thomas BARRY and had children: John
Randolph, Jennie, Peytona, Locke and David. John PEYTON, father
of Sarah BARRY, was native of Amherst Co., Va. and was a surveyor
and farmer of Sumner Co., Tenn.
January-June 1879
Sallie M. PURVIS wife of G. T. PURVIS, born
Amherst Co., Va., Mar. 6, 1800; married Dec. 4, 1824 and moved
to McMinnville, Tenn. where she died Nov. 26, 1878.
January 22, 1881
Benjamin Bibb KNIGHT born Amherst Co., Virginia,
October 12, 1801; married Dorcas NEWMAN, Feb. 13, 1823; died Dercherd,
Tenn., November 20, 1880. His wife, DORCAS NEWMAN KNIGHT born
So. Carolina, 1806; died April 13, 1872.
July 16, 1881
Dr. James Wesley LIVELY born Amherst Co.,
Virginia, September 19, 1809; moved to Ky. in 1816; married Harriet
TURNER, August 1, 1833; graduate, Transylvania University, 1847;
died recently.
July 8, 1882
Elizabeth W. T. PRICE, nee BAKER, widow
of Thomas PRICE, born Amherst Co., Virginia, July 11, 1805; moved
to Logan Co., Ky. in childhood; married Thomas PRICE; died recently;
an only son, the Rev. John W. PRICE of North Miss. Methodist Conference.
Peter F. WATERFIELD born Amherst Co., Virginia,
August 14, 1807; died Dec. 26, 1883.
Editha LEATON, nee SLED, born Amherst Co.,
Va., about 80 years ago; in early teens moved with her mother
to Ky.; married William LEATON and moved to Boone Co., then to
LaFayette Co., MO; husband died, leaving her with 3 children;
she then married Reuben LEATON and had 7 children; died Oct. 4,
1884; surviving, then, were 3 sons, 1 dau.
Peachea DOYLE born Jan. 4, 1798, Amherst
Co., Va. where she was reared; married William DOYLE (died Dec.
1851), 1812; 8 children, all deceased, the last to die having
been Mrs. Martha A. LEFFLER who died Jan. 22, 1872; died in residence
of granddaughter, Mrs. Mattie GREER, Smithland, Ky., April 18,
1886.
Rosa B. SEAY born Amherst Co., Va. (now
Nelson Co.), Oct. 3, 1784; died Tallapoosa Co., Ala., Jan. 28,
1887 in residence of her son, Rev. J. L. SEAY; her husband entered
the regular U.S. army in 1811; daughter of Capt. George LOVING;
had 9 children; migrated with her "entire" family to
Franklin Co., Tenn. in 1829.
January-June 1889
Stephen W. BOWLES son of John and Emily
BOWLES, born Amherst Co., Va., Aug. 13, 1824; one of 12 children;
married (1) Matilda BOWEN, Jan. 25, 1846; 4 children, two, John
and David, Methodist preachers; (2) Barbara A. TAYLOR, Dec. 2,
1858; 4 children. Killed "under a falling log", Dec.
23, 1889.
July-December 1890
Mary E. WRIGHT wife of William H. WRIGHT,
daughter of Christopher C. and Edna DILLARD, Amherst Co., Va.,
born July 20, 1850; died Oct. 31, 1889, bronchitis; married Oct.
25, 1879.
Nancy T. GRAHAM daughter of James and Keziah
DICKSON, born Amherst Co., Va., Sept. 23, 1808; moved with parents
to west Tenn. in 1812, then to Madison Co., Ala.; married Colonel
James B. GRAHAM; died Oct. 10, 1891.
John S. CAMPBELL born Amherst Co., Va.,
April 25, 1803; died Warren Co., Ky., Nov. 1, 1891; moved to Warren
Co., Ky. in 1821; married Mary ENNIS, Mar. 11, 1824; 12 children,
6 surviving him
July-December 1892
Preston Carpenter ROGERS son of William
Rogers, born Amherst Co., Va., Sept. 6, 1818; died Darden, Tenn.,
April 18, 1892 in residence of his son, Daniel ROGERS; married
Emily FLEMING in January 1842; 5 children surviving him.
Clara S. ARNOLD born Amherst Co., Virginia,
February 11, 1807; married W. H. BLAIR, Feb. 11, 1828; moved to
Kentucky in November 1829; in August 1834 her husband and two
children died, leaving her with one child. She married William
K. ARNOLD, November 1836; two sons, three daughters; second husband
died Sept. 2, 1855; she died April 29, 1895.