Alfred Carlton

Date of Birth in question.

1. FindAGrave.com profile, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39922420 , lists date of birth as September 16, 1806 per Newton County Family History.

2. Ancestry.com data:
Numerous sources at Ancestry.com point to date of birth of Sept 16, 1807 but all sources are from family collections, no state records found.

Family Data Collection - Individual Records
Name: Alfred Carlton
Parents: Lewis Carlton, Nancy Crouch
Birth Place: Wilks, NC
Birth Date: 16 Sep 1807
Marriage Place: Wilks
Marriage Date: 15 Mar 1823
Death Place: Newton, AR
Death Date: 1874

3. Gravestone inscribed "69 years old." If Alfred died in 1874, his year of birth would have been 1805.

Note: Per the 1860 Census William states he was 30 years old, which would have his year of birth as 1830 and not 1826 as indicated on his headstone.
Source: FindAGrave.com