Alfred Storm (1817 - 1897)

Born 1817 in Indiana, USA

Ancestors

Died 11 Aug 1897 at about age 80 in Indiana, USA

Problems/Questions Profile manager: William Lunsford [send private message]

Biography

1st wife: Frances Holmes (no grave found) 1835 ALFORD STORM, old settler, is a native of Jackson County, Ind., born December 18, 1817; son of Isaac and Susanna (Lunsford) Storm; is the seventh in a family of twelve children, and came of Dutch-English blood. The parents of Mr. Storm were born in Virginia. His paternal grandfather was Peter Storm, a native of Germany, but came to America prior to the Revolutionary war. The parents of Mr. Storm came to the Territory of Indiana before it was admitted into the Union as a State, and made settlement in what was known as Clark's Grant, and then removed to Jackson County and there remained a short time, and then came to Monroe County, and then removed to Greene County and made settlement in Indian Creek. The father of Mr. Storm died in 1862, and his mother the same year. In 1835 Alford was married to Miss Frances Holmes, a native of the Hoosier State. To this union was born one child, viz.: William Lowrey Lunsford. Mrs. Storm died in 1836. Mr. Storm was married again in 1838, to Miss Jane Herron, a native of Kentucky, by whom he had seven children. Mrs. Storm died in 1857, and the same year Mr. Storm was united in marriage to Mrs. Orpha Keck, whose maiden name was Kutch. To this union were born three children. Mr. Storm is one of the early-day men of Indiana, and for almost half a century he has farmed where he now resides. He is a Republican. Mr. Storm had seven sons and three sons-in-law in the late Civil war. One of the sons did while in the service, and was buried in Southern soil, but after twenty-one days his remains were disinterred and brought home and now repose beside their mother.

Sources

• Burial:

Lowder Cemetery Springville Lawrence County Indiana, USA