Zerah Alvord (1765 - 1845)

Born 10 Nov 1765 in South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Nims) Alvord — married 11 Nov 1790 in Greenfield, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 16 Jun 1845 at age 79 in Shelburne, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Zerah Alvord, was born 10 Nov 1765 in South Hadley, Massachusetts, the eighth child of Lydia (Smith) Alvord (1728-) and Gad Alvord (1726-1810) ^[1].

He married first, 11 Nov 1790 at Greenfield, Massachusetts, Hannah Nims ^[2] [b. 9 Dec 1769 @ Shelburne, MA, daughter of Daniel & Charity (Childs) Nims]; they had 6 children, all born at Shelburne:

1. Adolphus Alvord (1791-1852); married Naomie Barnard
2. Harriet Alvord, b. 18 Nov 1793; unmarried; died 9 Jul 1867
3. Epephus Alvord (1796-1862), b. 10 Jun 1796; married Hannah Lufkin
4. Abigail (Alvord) Dole (1799-1875); married Wilder Dole
5. Laura Alvord, b. 28 Mar 1801; unmarried; d. 23 Jul 1875 @ Gill, Massachusetts
6. Cephas Alvord (1803-1872), b. 30 Nov 1803; married Rachel Parsons Childs

After his first wife died, in 1806, Zerah Alvord married second, Sarah Foster (b. about 1766), their marriage date not evident.

Zerah Alvord passed away 17 Jun 1845 at Shelburne, Massachusetts ^[3]. His grave is in Shelburne Center Cemetery, Shelburne, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States ^[4].

Sources

1. ↑ A Genealogy of the Descendants of Alexander Alvord an Early Settler of Windsor, Conn. and Northampton, Mass. (1908), no. 177: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00alvo/page/65/mode/1up
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH75-D1S : 16 August 2021), Zerah Alvord, 11 Nov 1790; citing Marriage, Shelburne, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007580138.
3. ↑ A Genealogy of the Descendants of Alexander Alvord an Early Settler of Windsor, Conn. and Northampton, Mass. (1908), no. 177: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00alvo/page/112/mode/1up
4. ↑ Oathout: Page 111.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 06 June 2016, 21:27), entry for Zerah(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KZ1R-T6D); contributed by various users.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 19 January 2019, 22:23), entry for Zerah Alvord(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L7J6-P8L); contributed by various users.

• Oathout, Susan S. The Nims Family: Seven Generations of Descendants from Godfrey Nims (Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1990). Page 111.