Colonel George Benton Alford

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George Benton "Bent" Alford, an honorary colonel (related to his service in the Confederate Army), was the first of the seven children of Green Haywood Alford (1820-1877) and Rebecca Jones (1822-1890). In 1875 he married Charlotte Olive (1856-1899), with whom he had two children, and, second, in 1899, as a widower, Texana Ora Alice Branch Collins, the widow of (Joseph) Walter Collins (she had four children to whom he was a benevolent stepfather). Bent was in the mercantile business and in timber/lumber and turpentine during much of his life and was a railroad president; he was a major force behind incorporation of the town of Holly Springs; was Holly Springs Postmaster, 9 Mar. 1880-19 Oct 1881, and Wake County commissioner for two years. His home was the house now called "The Leslie-Alford-Mims House" (100 Avent Ferry Rd.) in Holly Springs, N.C., and he is buried with his first wife, Charlotte Ann Olive Alford, and some other family (including at least his sister, Elizabeth "Laylon Elizabeth") on the grounds of the home in a family cemetery. His second wife is buried with her first husband in the Holly Springs Cemetery.