Calvin
Alvord
Born in South Hadley, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Son of Samuel Alvord
and Miriam (White) Alvord
Brother of
Orange Alvord, Miriam (Alvord) White, Samuel Alvord, Cyrus Alvord, Editha (Alvord) Smith and Fidelia (Alvord) Smith
Husband of
Mary (Brewster) Alvord
— married
8 Oct 1801 in South Hadley, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Father of
Broughton Alvord and Ruby (Alvord) Cummings
Died
at age 78
in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Biography
Calvin Alvord, born 3 Aug 1779 @ South Hadley, Massachusetts, was the first child of Samuel Alvord and Miriam White.
He married 8 Oct 1801 @ S. Hadley, Mary Brewster [b. 18 Oct 1780, daughter of Jesse & Susan Brewster]. They had 5 children, born at South Hadley:
- Broughton Alvord, b. 14 Jan 1802; unmarried; d. 16 Jul 1886, South Hadley
- Ruby Alvord (1805-1836), b. 22 Jan 1805; married 1) Ellis Coney; 2) Estes Cummings; d. 10 Nov 1836
- Calvin Alvord, b. 14 Mar 1810; unmarried; d. 11 Feb 1835
- Mary Ann Alvord, b. 4 Jan 1814; unmarried; d. 2 Oct 1890
- Jesse Brewster Alvord, b. 15 Aug 1816; unmarried; d. 22 Nov 1863 @ South Hadley
Per the Alvord genealogy, Calvin Alvord was a shoemaker by trade and had an extensive business in the neighborhood. He was diligent in his occupation and could always be found at his bench.
Calvin Alvord passed away at South Hadley, 18 Nov 1857 [1], with interment in Evergreen Cemetery, South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA [2]. The death date as applied onto the pediment of the collective Alvord family monument (probably an obelisk) is Nov. 18, 1857. The year differs from 1856 which appears in the Alvord genealogy.
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7RD-F4M : 2 March 2021), Calvin Alvord, 18 Nov 1857; citing South Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, v 112 p 37, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 960,173.
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #125223153
- A Genealogy of the Descendants of Alexander Alvord an Early Settler of Windsor, Conn. and Northampton, Mass. (1908), no. 400: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00alvo/page/109/mode/1up; https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00alvo/page/190/mode/1up; https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00alvo/page/192/mode/1up
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Calvin by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Calvin:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Calvin by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Calvin:
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~1.56%
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Alvord-1009 and Alvord-826 appear to represent the same person because: Both represent the spouse of Mary Brewster, who also has been duplicated. Careful use of the Wikitree search function could alleviate duplications in the future.
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