North Carolina-Missouri-Arkansas --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Family Group Record 0004 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ....... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Bible Record entry ... death occurred prior this date per court records --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ....... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Children of John Alexander & Mary Price --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Sex Name F Violet Alexander Born: 26 May 1780 Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina Died: Place: Hempstead County, Arkansas --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Sex Name F Betsey (Elizabeth) Alexander Born: 1784 Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina Died: Place: Married: Place: Spouse: William Hunt --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Sex Name M Reece Alexander Born: 26 Aug 1794 Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina Died: Place: Hempstead County, Arkansas Married: Place: Spouse: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moved to Bellevue, Washington County, Missouri in 1808 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriage Bond --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriage License --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lincoln County, North Carolina, Court of Pleas --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lincoln County, North Carolina, Court of Pleas --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Finley Crowe Manuscript --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCES OF INFORMATION (include): --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Kelley 1999 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------