Sophia was born in 1811 in New York. She married William Schenck probably around 1820, but this is an estimate based on the birth of their first child. She had nine children with William Schenck. They briefly lived in Pennsylvania, between 1832 and 1840, probably Crawford, Pennsylvania where her father-in-law Ephraim Loree Schenck lived.
In 1840 Sophia's husband William and her father John Alford are living in Genoa, Delaware, Ohio.
The family cannot be found in the 1850 census except for Sarah Schenck listed with the Miesner family in 1850 in Genoa, Ohio. By 1860 the whole family was living in Liberty, Delaware County, Ohio. Sophia passed away in Missouri in 1868.
5/27/2023 Searching Ancestry unable to find a will for her or her father in Missouri or Ohio. Unable to find any other Alfords in Miller county Missouri, or even records of Sophia beyond her gravestone. A search of Newspapers.com from 1960-1968 in Missouri for Sophia Schenck, and Ohio and New York from 1930-1960 yields no relevant results.
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