| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Eighth Generation265. Rev. William ALBRIGHT248,249 was born on 22 May 1799 in Guilford Co., NC.246,250 He died of typhoid fever in 1871 at the age of 72 in Howard Co., IN.246,247 He was buried in 1871 in Albright Cemetery, Kokomo, Howard Co., IN.251 This is the cemetery he opened when he was a minister of the Albright M. E. Church in Howard Co., IN. He was a Methodist Episcopal Minister as was his son Daniel. In November 1921, the Kokomo Dispatch ran the following news repeat in its 50 year column: "William Albright, a native of NC but a resident of this county since 1849, died at his home near this city after a two-week illness of typhoid fever. He was in his 73rd year. He was a brick and stone mason and had helped build many of Kokomo's early buildings. He was also a licensed preacher of the M. E. Church and was widely known among the good people of the community. Albright Chapel and Albright Cemetery were named for him." They moved from TN to Ohio in 1834 or 1835. Rev. William ALBRIGHT and Elizabeth SNODERLY249 were married on 28 October 1818 in Howard Co., IN.250 The family moved from TN to Ohio in 1834 or 1835. Apparently William's family only lived in Ohio for 10 or 15 years. John moved into Indiana about 1844, the rest of the family following about 1848 or 1849. THey settled in what is now Howard County, near the present site of Kokomo. Elizabeth SNODERLY, daughter of Henry SNODERLY and Mary WHITSON, was born on 16 January 1798 in NC.246,250 She died on 16 January 1873 at the age of 75 in Howard Co., IN.246,250 She was buried in January 1873 in Albright Cemetery, Kokomo, Howard Co., IN.250 Rev. William ALBRIGHT and Elizabeth SNODERLY had the following children:
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