Gifford - Allen
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal 22 March 1890 (Sat)
Col. H. Gifford this morning received a dispatch from Easton, Washington County, N. Y., stating that his father died at that place last night at 8 o’clock at the advanced age of 97 years and three months. The Colonel is in feeble health and is unable to be present at the funeral.
Source: Glens Falls, NY Post-Star Thursday 27 March 1890 p 4
The death of Allen Gifford who died at Crandalls Corners a few days ago at the age of 98 years, closed a remarkable experience covering in its span almost the entire history of American Politics. Mr. Gifford was born in Cambridge, Washington County and among the incidents of his boyhood remembered well the sincere and universal sorrow that pervaded the country at the death of Washington. He was a voter in 1813 while the war of 1812 was going on in this vicinity and remembered seeing his brothers shoulder the flint-lock muskets and march to the front, which was only so far away as Plattsburg and Whitehall at that time. Mr. Gifford cast his first vote for James Monroe who headed the first ticket of the old Republican party which later became the Democracy. He rembmered the history of the rise and decline of the old Federal, Republican and Whit parties to say nothing of innumerable less important factions, such as the Barnburners, the Anti-Renters and the Know-nothings. Deceased was a prosperous farmer and temperature habits, having never used tobacco or any kind of spirituous liquors. - kbz