John Alexander & Mary Price

North Carolina-Missouri-Arkansas

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Family Group Record                 0004                                    
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Husband's Name   John Alexander                                             
 Born:           1740    Place:                                             
 Died:    19 Aug 1800 *  Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina              
 Marr 1:  30 Jun 1767    Place: Pennsylvania (BR)                           
 Wife 1:         Jane Thomson                                               
 Marr 2:  21 Jul 1779    Place: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (LIC)    
 Wife 2:         Mary Price                                                 
 Father:         ....... Alexander                                          
 Mother:         .......                                                    
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 * Bible Record entry ... death occurred prior this date per court records  
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Wife's Name      Mary Price                                                 
 Born:           1753    Place:                                             
 Died:    26 Dec 1811    Place: Bellevue, Washington, Missouri              
 Marr 1:                 Place:                                             
 Hsbn 1:         ....... Morisson (Morrison)                                
 Marr 2:  21 Jul 1779    Place: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (LIC)    
 Hsbn 2:         John Alexander                                             
 Father:         .......                                                    
 Mother:         .......                                                    
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Children of John Alexander & Mary Price
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 1. Sex Name                                                                
     F  Violet Alexander                                                    
        Born:    26 May 1780    Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina       
        Died:                   Place: Hempstead County, Arkansas           
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 2. Sex Name                                                                
     M  Alexander Thomson (Thompson) Alexander                              
        Born:    02 Jan 1782    Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina       
        Died:    17 Apr 1845    Place: buried ... Caledonia, Iron, Missouri 
        Married:    Jan 1810    Place: Bellevue, Washington, Missouri       
        Spouse:  Mary McCormick                                             
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 3. Sex Name                                                                
     F  Jenny (Jane) Alexander                                              
        Born:    12 Nov 1783    Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina       
        Died:                   Place:                                      
        Married:                Place: Bellevue, Washington, Missouri       
        Spouse:  Jason Frizell                                              
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 4. Sex Name                                                                
     F  Betsey (Elizabeth) Alexander                                        
        Born:           1784    Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina       
        Died:                   Place:                                      
        Married:                Place:                                      
        Spouse:  William Hunt                                               
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 5. Sex Name                                                                
     F  Ann Alexander                                                       
        Born:    12 Nov 1786    Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina       
        Died:    30 Nov 1823    Place: Hempstead County, Arkansas           
        Married:                Place: North Carolina                       
        Spouse:  John Henry (Reverend)                                      
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 6. Sex Name                                                                
     M  John Price Alexander                                                
        Born:    07 Apr 1788    Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina       
        Died:    14 Apr 1846    Place: Washington County, Missouri          
        Married:        1812    Place: Washington County, Missouri          
        Spouse:  Catherine McCormick                                        
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 7. Sex Name                                                                
     M  James Alexander                                                     
        Born:    03 Jan 1790    Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina       
        Died:    25 Jul 1834    Place: Hempstead County, Arkansas           
        Married: 21 Jan 1813    Place: Washington County, Missouri (JR)     
        Spouse:  Hannah Wakely                                              
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 8. Sex Name                                                                
     F  Esther Alexander                                                    
        Born:    08 Jun 1792    Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina       
        Died:    10 Aug 1858    Place: Hanover, Jefferson, Indiana          
        Married: 23 Nov 1813    Place: Bellevue, Washington, Missouri       
        Spouse:  John Finley Crowe                                          
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 9. Sex Name                                                                
     M  Reece Alexander                                                     
        Born:    26 Aug 1794    Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina       
        Died:                   Place: Hempstead County, Arkansas           
        Married:                Place:                                      
        Spouse:                                                             
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10. Sex Name                                                                
     M  Elvira Alexander                                                    
        Born:    05 Mar 1799    Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina       
        Died:    15 Dec 1857    Place: Fern Ridge, Lane, Oregon             
        Married: 07 Sep 1815    Place: Bellevue, Washington, Missouri (BR)  
        Spouse:  John Brewer                                                
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          Moved to Bellevue, Washington County, Missouri in 1808            
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DOCUMENTS
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Marriage Bond
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Know all men by these presents: That we, John Alexander and William         
Morisson (sic) of the County of Tryon, are held and firmly bound to James   
Johnston of the County aforesaid, in the full and just sum of one hundred   
pounds to the which payment, well and truly to be made and done, we bind    
ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, jointly and severally,     
firmly by the(se) presents, sealed with our seals and dated this 20th day   
of July 1779. The condition of the above obligation is such that if the     
above & bound John Alexander shall and will procure and take out License    
from the Clerk of this County to be married to Mary Morisson (sp) and       
deliver them to me within ten days after this date, to be an equal date     
with these, then the above obligation (void) else to remain in full force   
and virtue. Sealed and delivered in the (presence) of us. (Signed) John     
(his x mark) Alexander (Seal), William (his x mark) Morisson. Source:       
Original bond (copy), provided by Nora Garrett, Newkirk, Oklahoma (1994).   
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Marriage License
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State of North Carolina, Mecklenburg County. (Seal) By Samuel Martin clerk  
of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions held for the County of    
Mecklenburg. To any Minister of the Gospel or Justice of the Peace,         
Greeting: You are hereby authorized to Celebrate the Rites of Matrimony     
between John Alexander and Mary Morrison of this county and join them in    
wedlock, for which this shall be your sufficient warrant. Given under my    
hand & seal this 19th day of July 1779. (Signed) Sam Martin, C.M.C.         
Source: Original license (copy), provided by Nora Garrett, Newkirk,         
Oklahoma (1994).                                                            
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Lincoln County, North Carolina, Court of Pleas
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April Court 1805. Upon hearing the petition of Mary Alexander, widow of     
John Alexander dec'd it was ordered by Court that a Writ to the Sheriff to  
summon a Jury to lay off to the said Mary Alexander her dower of 398 acres  
of land on Balls Creek of which her late husband John Alexander died seized 
& possessed of. Issued. Source: Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Lincoln  
County, North Carolina, April 1805-October 1808, Anne Williams McAllister & 
Kathy Gunter Sullivan, 1988, page 50.                                       
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Lincoln County, North Carolina, Court of Pleas
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July Court 1806. Ordered by the Court that Alexander Alexander be Guardian  
to Reece Alexander & Elvira Alexander, orphan children of John Alexander    
dec'd & John Alexander, James Alexander & Esther Alexander likewise orphan  
children of the said John Alexander dec'd being of the age of 14 years came 
into Open Court & chose Alexander Alexander their Guardian who came into    
Open Court & gave bond & Mary Alexander & Jacob Fulbright security in the   
sum of L500. Source: Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Lincoln County,     
North Carolina, April 1805-October 1808, Anne Williams McAllister & Kathy   
Gunter Sullivan, 1988, page 61.                                             
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John Finley Crowe Manuscript
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Having been solicited by my sons to give them some information of my        
parentage and relatives, I have concluded to devote a portion, of the       
leisure of a long vacation in college duties, to that subject. I know but   
little of your mother's family. Her father, John Alexander ... emigrated to 
Pennsylvania where he married. He had (five) children by his first wife,    
his second wife was Mary Price ... Until the death of Mr. Alexander about   
the year 1800, they lived in Lincoln county, (North Carolina). He left a    
family of four sons and six daughters. The sons were Alexander, John, James 
and Reese, the daughters, Violet, Jane, Elizabeth, Ann, Esther and Elvira.  
In 1808 Mrs. Alexander's family joined a Presbyterian colony from Dr.       
Hall's congregation in Lincoln and Iredell counties to Bellevue, Missouri.  
Shortly after their settlement in Bellevue, Alexander and John married Mary 
and Catharine McCormack (McCormick) daughters of another widow lady         
belonging to the colony. They both subsequently became Ruling Elders in the 
church of Caledonia, raised large families, and some six or eight years ago 
were both called to their reward. James and Reese both married in Bellevue  
and afterward moved to Arkansas. Some fifteen years ago they both died.     
James left a family of (thirteen) children, and Reese, two daughters.       
Violet the eldest daughter never married. She lived in her brother James'   
family and died some years before him. Jane married Jason Frizell in        
Bellevue, and after some years residence there, they moved to Northwestern  
part of the State of Missouri. We have not heard from them for more than    
twenty years. Elizabeth married William Hunt. They settled in Bellevue      
where she died several years ago leaving a family of children. I know not   
how many. Ann married John Henry in North Carolina. They first moved to     
Bellevue and afterwards to Arkansas. Brother Henry was a man of ardent      
piety and was licensed as a preacher in the Methodist Church and although   
he continued to labor as a local preacher he seemed to be extensively       
useful. He probably is still living in Hempstead County, Arkansas. His      
eldest son John was also a preacher in the same connection, a young man of  
great promise, but he died young. His mother (Ann) also died a              
comparatively young woman leaving five or six children. Elvira the youngest 
child married John Brewer in Bellevue and shortly after their marriage they 
moved to Arkansas where they are probably still living. When I visited the  
family in 1839 (in Pike County, Arkansas) they had six or seven children.   
Since which time we have not heard from them. Source: The Crowe Family,     
Reverend John Finley Crowe, DD, Presbyterian Minister, Founder of Hanover   
College, Hanover, Indiana. Manuscript written about 1855; Hanover College,  
Indiana.                                                                    
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SOURCES OF INFORMATION (include):
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John and Mary (Price) Alexander Bible Record (copy), Marjorie J. Brewer,    
Mill Creek, Washington (1993); The Crowe Family, Reverend John Finley       
Crowe, DD, Presbyterian Minister, Founder of Hanover College, Hanover,      
Indiana: manuscript written about 1855; Tombstone inscriptions: Bellevue    
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Caledonia, Missouri (Alexander Thomson        
Alexander, John Price Alexander); Ambrose D. Jenkins Journal; Nora Garrett, 
Newkirk, Oklahoma to David Kelley, correspondence (16 Feb 1994). Key: (BR)  
Bible Record; (JR) Journal; (LIC) License                                   
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David Kelley 1999
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