I have quite a bit of Alford information. Please be specific about which
family. Below is a short history of Alfordsville and James Alford.
Michele Brooks
In 1816, the year that Indiana became a state, James Alford resided in
Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia. There he associated himself with a man by the
name of Reeder and the family of each occupying the same wagon moved westward.
James Alford (called Captain by his friends) and Hannah Baker Alford first
settled on the south bank of the White River at Portersville, Dubois County.
After a few years they moved northward about 5 miles to a two story hewed log
house. This was the first building in what was to be Alfordsville. He gave the
land for the first Christian Church, which most of the Alfords attended in
Reeve township, Daviess County, Indiana. He also gave the land for the first
school house in Reeve Township. Hannah (Baker) Alford moved to Chautauqua
County, Kansas, with her granddaughter, Orlena Harris Alford and her husband
William H. Alford. James Alford had died in 1861 in Daviess County and is buried in
the Christian Cemetery at Alfordvsille, Indiana.