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Elvira <I>Bailey</I> Acton

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Elvira Bailey Acton

Birth
Shelby County, Alabama, USA
Death
4 Sep 1895 (aged 79)
Pinson, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
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Shelby County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
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"Another white settlement, this one in Shelby County, was made in about 1815 by Captain Thomas Bailey, a great Indian fighter, and his wife, who was Zilpha Lee, together with their large family and seven negro slaves. It is possible that their youngest daughter, Elvira, born August 16, 1816, was the first white child to be born in the Birmingham district, though Moses Fields, born December 24, 1816, near old Jonesboro, was the first to be born in Jefferson County. Elvira Bailey was named for the wife of Tecumseh, the great Shawnee Indian chief, and in later years became the wife of Reverend Emberson Acton, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister." – Will F. Franke, "Jefferson County, 1850" in The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society (Birmingham, AL), 1987, Vol 9, No 2

NOTE: One of the places that her husband preached was at Red Hill Church, just east of Pinson, AL. Cenotaphs were placed in Red Hill Cemetery in their honor -- Emberson (#29560360) and Elvira (#10412053) -- long after their deaths. However, a local newspaper photographer was told that they are actually buried with Emberson's family in the John Acton Cemetery (now known as Old Acton Cemetery) in Cahaba Valley.
"Another white settlement, this one in Shelby County, was made in about 1815 by Captain Thomas Bailey, a great Indian fighter, and his wife, who was Zilpha Lee, together with their large family and seven negro slaves. It is possible that their youngest daughter, Elvira, born August 16, 1816, was the first white child to be born in the Birmingham district, though Moses Fields, born December 24, 1816, near old Jonesboro, was the first to be born in Jefferson County. Elvira Bailey was named for the wife of Tecumseh, the great Shawnee Indian chief, and in later years became the wife of Reverend Emberson Acton, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister." – Will F. Franke, "Jefferson County, 1850" in The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society (Birmingham, AL), 1987, Vol 9, No 2

NOTE: One of the places that her husband preached was at Red Hill Church, just east of Pinson, AL. Cenotaphs were placed in Red Hill Cemetery in their honor -- Emberson (#29560360) and Elvira (#10412053) -- long after their deaths. However, a local newspaper photographer was told that they are actually buried with Emberson's family in the John Acton Cemetery (now known as Old Acton Cemetery) in Cahaba Valley.

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