Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
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James Alexander and Jane Adams


Husband James Alexander 1 2 

           Born: 16 Feb 1772 2 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Apr 1847 4
         Buried:  - West End Presbyterian Church


         Father: James Alexander (1726-1791) 5 6 7 8
         Mother: Rosa Reed (      -1792) 7 9


       Marriage: 1792 3

Wife Jane Adams 3 

           Born: 15 Sep 1776 - Philadelphia, PA 10
     Christened: 
           Died: 27 Jul 1834 11
         Buried:  - West End Presbyterian Church


         Father: William Adams (      -Abt 1777) 10
         Mother: Mary White (      -      ) 10


Children
1 F Mary Alexander 12 

           Born: Abt 1793 - Kishacoquillas Valley, Mifflin Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 9 Dec 1869 13
         Buried:  - Little Valley Presbyterian Church

         Spouse: Samuel Edmiston Alexander (1785-1862) 14 15
           Marr: 28 Dec 1809 16

2 F Rosey Alexander 11 

           Born: 27 Nov 1795 11
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1874
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John Scott (1772-1836) 17
           Marr: 31 Mar 1814 17

3 F Elizabeth Alexander 11 

           Born: 26 May 1798 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 10 Sep 1871 18
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Lefferd Lease Haughawout (1799-1871) 19

4 M James Alexander 20 21 







           Born: 27 Nov 1801 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



         Spouse: Celia Alexander (1810-      ) 2 21 22
           Marr: 17 Feb 1834 23






5  M  William Adams Alexander 11





           Born: 1803 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 Jan 1864 24
         Buried: 



         Spouse: Jane Read (      -      ) 24



         Spouse: Edith Clifton (      -      ) 24






6  F  Jessie Alexander 11 25





           Born: 17 Jan 1806 11 26
     Christened: 
           Died: 12 May 1835 24 26
         Buried: 



         Spouse: George Armstrong Lyon (1803-1873) 24 25
           Marr: 11 Nov 1830 26






7  F  Jane Alexander 11





           Born: 24 Sep 1810 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 6 Feb 1876 27
         Buried: 



         Spouse: Joseph Alexander, Esq. (Abt 1808-      ) 27
           Marr: 14 Oct 1835 27






8  M  Robert Alexander 11





           Born: 10 May 1813 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 22 Sep 1844 - St. Clair Co, IL 28
         Buried: 



         Spouse: Catherine McKee (      -      ) 28






9  F  Matilda Alexander 29





           Born: 7 Jan 1816 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 6 May 1848 - St. Clair Co, IL 28
         Buried:  - Robert Hughes Graveyard, St. Clair Co, IL



         Spouse: Foster Davis (      -      ) 30






10  M  Napoleon Bonaparte Alexander 31





           Born: 1819 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



         Spouse: Priscilla Alexander (1826-      ) 32
           Marr: 25 Feb 1845 28









General Notes: Husband - James Alexander




The next year after his father's death, he married and remained on the old homestead on Spring Run, as farmer. He was a man of very large frame, five feet eleven and one-half inches high, and of commanding presence. After middle age he became so corpulent as to weigh 355 pounds, so that his neighbors often distinguished him from his namesakes by the title of "Sturdy Jamie."
In the prime of life he was fond of that most exciting and dangerous of all English and American sports-the Fox Hunt. When greater age and corpulence unfitted him for farm labor, he betook himself to retirement and books, diversified by almost daily trips to the streams or woods for fish or game. Superior skill in these sports kept his table well supplied with trout, wild fowl and venison in their seasons. Nor did he fail to enliven the repast by narrating interesting incidents of the hunting and angling.
He improved a mind naturally strong and active by varied reading, so that he was generally regarded as a man of more than ordinary intelligence. He was a kind and affectionate husband and father. His large and productive farm furnished the necessaries and comforts of a farmer's life in abundance, and being hospitable, social, cheerful and gifted in conversational powers, his home and society were enjoyed by numerous friends and guests. Religiously he did not walk closely in the steps of his pious father, being neither a professor of religion nor a constant attendant at church. Yet the influence of his early training was seen in restraining his children on the Sabbath and in keeping up daily Bible reading as a part of family worship and adding the recitation of the Catechism on the Sabbath.

His wife's great-uncle, having died unmarried in India, left a considerable fortune, to be chiefly divided among his brother and sisters. Knowing that his brother, William Adams, had died in America, leaving one daughter only; but not knowing whether she still lived, he left her, conditionally, £3,000. Her husband, James Alexander, visited Ireland to obtain this money in 1805. His passport from Philadelphia Custom House is dated January 15, 1805. (And a receipt of a shipment of Irish linen from Liverpool to New York, is dated December, 1805.) He returned after an absence of nine months. While in Ireland he visited the aunts of his wife-the other sharers of the fortune of Dr. Robert Adams. Unfortunately, he was persuaded to speculate on a shipment of Irish linen, which, on arriving in America, was damaged so that the value of the fortune was considerably diminished.



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Sources






1
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 122.

2
—, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 31.

3
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 155.

4
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 157.

5
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 114.

6
—, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 617.

7
—, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 30.

8
—, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 444, 676.

9
—, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 444.

10
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 158.

11
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 159.

12
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 53, 159.

13
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 54.

14
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 43, 53.

15
—, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 590.

16
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 53.

17
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 160.

18
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 163.

19
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 162.

20
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 132, 159.

21
—, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 619.

22
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 127, 165.

23
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 165.

24
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 166.

25
William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 391.

26
William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 398.

27
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 167.

28
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 168.

29
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 130, 159.

30
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 130.

31
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 131, 159.

32
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 131.







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