THE WORKS OF JONATHAN K. T. SMITH
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2003
***Extracted with permission from the author
George Washington ALFORD
Died, in Davidson county, Tennessee, on
the 18th of Aug. 1834, Mr. George Washington ALFORD, son of Mr.
John ALFORD, aged 40 years. Mr. ALFORD was born in Amherst county,
Virginia. He was a man of virtuous life, strict morality and endeared
himself not only to those who slept in his bosom, a beloved wife
and six children, but to all who knew him. But yet he was without
the one thing needful. At the first camp meeting at Smyrna, the
last of July, he was a seeker of religion and went away from that
meeting with his mind deeply interested for the salvation of the
gospel. He was soon after taken sick with a