| Birth: | 1808 in TN |
| Death: | 1844/1850 in MO/IL 1 |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Shadrach ALVIS b. About 1788 in prob Goochland Co VA |
| Mother: | Nancy HAIL b. 1792 in VA |
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| Reference: 0032 |
| Occupation: Minister 2 3 |
| Religion: Methodist 2 3 |
| Changed: 27 Jul 2006 |
Individual:
The evidence linking James with Shadrach and Nancy (Hail) Alvis: the facts that Shadrach had a son James s age in 1820 and that they lived in the same areas at three different times (Lawrence Co TN, Pike Co MO and Jefferson Co IL). It has not been proven that James was ever in Jefferson Co IL, but his widow and two of his children were there in 1850. James was born ca 1808 in TN, his wife Luvina Pulliam ca 1808. The other Alvises in TN at that date (Abraham, Edmund, Zachariah C and George W) are none of them very likely, while Shadrach fits perfectly and did have a son that age otherwise unknown. All of Shadrach s children (with the exception of John S and the youngest two) have been identified only on the basis of being in the same counties as Shadrach when there were no other known Alvises in the area at that time. I have not been able to find James in 1840 and assume he was deceased by 1850. His wife s remarriage in that year, together with the fact that he was a Methodist preacher, imply that he was dead, not divorced, although she apparently did divorce her second husband.
Daughters Death Certificates: Mary (Alvis) Ferguson Parke Co IN, #35976, 4 Nov 1934; Lucy Annie (Alvis) Young, Nokomis IL, # 3111, 17 Oct 1923; Sarah (Alvis) Fulwider, Monroe Co IN, #38008, 30 Dec 1930.
At one time, it appeared that he might be 1840 James Olive, Creek Twp, Madison Co IL: 11001/21001, but this man is presnt in 1850 with his family, not ours.
Children identified in letter from Nellie (Alvis) Becker, 18 Sep 1966.
- Text: No evidence of death other than wife's second marriage in Jeffer
son Co IL, 4 Jun 1850.
- Text: Woodard, W S. Annals of Methodism in Missouri. Columbia MO: 1893
, 116. William & James Alvis File.Excerpts from W.S. Woodard, Annals of Methodism in Missouri , Co
lumbia MO, 1893, pp 121-125.Chapter IV - section 2
We begin this section with the introduction of Methodism in th
e extreme southwestern part of the State. This year, John Thompson, then on the Gasconade Circuit, organized a class on Osage Fork, fifteen miles east of where Lebanon now is. Rev. J. H. Ross has sent me the following interesting accountOtterville, 1885
Rev. W. S. Woodard: Dear Brother - I heartily approve your laud
able undertakingIn the fall of 1828 my father and mother, mother s parents, Joh
n and Bethia Hillhouse, and my uncle, Josiah M. Hillhouse, moved from Lawrence Co TN, and on the 19th of November pitched their tent on the Osage Fork of Gasconade river, about fifteen miles east of where Lebanon now stands, just above where Farris mill was afterwards built.I have a distinct recollection of how anxious the settlers wer
e to have preachers in the neighborhood; of hearing Ma and Aunt talk of preachers and meeting back in Tennessee. Of the preachers they spoke of Jacob Hearn, and longed to see him and hear him preach I think the first preaching in the neighborhood was by a local preacher named Jacob Alvice; I know that he was there, and think that he had meeting once or twice. J. Thompson came as an itinerant in 1831. He established preaching at Andersons and gathered the scattered members into a society. He was zealous and well-received generally.
- Text: History of Pike County Missouri, Des Moines: Mills & Company, 18
83, 920. Title page and Xerox copy, William & James Alvis File. Copied at NSDAR Library, 1987.the M. E. Church, which was organized about the year 1830. Fre
derick Leach and James Alvis were the first preachers, the services being held at private houses
- Text: Lawrence Co TN Marriage Book, 1818-1854. I have Xerox copy of t
he original record, William & James Alvis File. The index is in error as to Luvina s maiden name; someone has written Sullivan under the name Pulliam, and that is how the index reads the name.
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