Almonius ALKIRE

                   Will dated 29May1800 in Bourbon Co, KY Will bk. B p. 82 Recorded Jul1800
Exec. William Alkire and William Clarkeson
Wit. John Wallace, Jedidiah Pullen Jesse Fitzgerald, and Edward Campbell

The Alkires originated in Holland and the family records can be traced as far
back as William II, Prince of Orange.  The Hague records present information
that near Amheim, on the Rhein in Holland in 1626, there lived a family bearing
a Coat of Arms which was given by the Prince of Orange with the baronet name of
Algire.  This insignia may be thus inscribed:
     "Arms on a silver shield, crest, a falcon with red feet and beak, a bunbch
of grapes and a wine glass, a pike and crossed swords, with the motto "CUM
SALIS" which means safety."

That the Algires were noblemen was proved by the composition of the shields,
only men of rank were permitted the use of gold and silver.
The middle class used only leather and wooden shields.
Almonius Alkire came to America with Lord Baltimore in the seventeenth century.
   He assisted in the suppression of many Indian outbreaks.
In 1720 he married Mary Crayman near Moorfield, Virginia.(County Records-family
records-tombsstones.   History of Pickaway Co., Records of Pickaway Co, Ohio
tombstones
History of Madison, Fayette and Pickaway Counties, Ohio.  Pg 813. History of
Pickaway Co. Page 553. Tombstones
Family Bible, birth records in possession of Ernest R. Clarridge, Columbus,
Ohio.  Tombstones in Tanner burying ground near Mt. Sterling, Ohio   National
number 255413 DAR
In 1700 a Harmonius Alkire appreared on america's shores from Holland.  He
settled in VA bought land from Lord Fairfax and served in Captain james
Parson's colonial army or Virginia and then on Daniel Boon's first Kentucky
settlements.  Genealogical records show migrations to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
and Oregon.  Information from Mark Alkire in North Fort Myers, FL prodigy
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