Husband James Alexander 1 2 3
Born: 16 Feb 1772 2 4 5
Christened:
Died: 17 Apr 1847 5 6
Buried: - West End Presbyterian Church
Father: James Alexander (1726-1791) 7 8 9 10 11
Mother: Rosa Reed ( -1792) 10 12
Marriage: 1792 4 5
Wife Jane Adams 4 5
Born: 15 Sep 1776 - Philadelphia, PA 5 13
Christened:
Died: 27 Jul 1834 5 14
Buried: - West End Presbyterian Church
Father: William Adams ( -Abt 1777) 13
Mother: Mary White ( - ) 13
Children
1 F Mary Alexander 5 15
Born: Abt 1793 - Kishacoquillas Valley, Mifflin Co, PA
Christened:
Died: 9 Dec 1869 16
Buried: - Little Valley Presbyterian Church
Spouse: Samuel Edmiston Alexander (1785-1862) 17 18
Marr: 28 Dec 1809 19
2 F Rosey Alexander 5 14
Born: 27 Nov 1795 14
Christened:
Died: Aft 1874
Buried:
Spouse: John Scott (1772-1836) 5 20
Marr: 31 Mar 1814 20
3 F Elizabeth Alexander 5 14
Born: 26 May 1798 14
Christened:
Died: 10 Sep 1871 21
Buried:
Spouse: Lefferd Lease Haughawout (1799-1871) 5 22
4 M James Alexander 5 23 24
Born: 27 Nov 1801 14
Christened:
Died: Abt 1886
Buried: - West Kishacoquillas Presbyterian Church, PA
Spouse: Celia Alexander (1810-Abt 1890) 2 5 24 25
Marr: 17 Feb 1834 5 26
5 M William Adams Alexander 5 14
Born: 1803 14
Christened:
Died: 30 Jan 1864 27
Buried:
Spouse: Jane Read ( - ) 27
Spouse: Edith Clifton ( - ) 27
6 F Jessie Alexander 5 14 28
Born: 17 Jan 1806 14 29
Christened:
Died: 12 May 1835 27 29
Buried:
Spouse: George Armstrong Lyon (1803-1873) 27 28
Marr: 11 Nov 1830 29
7 F Jane Alexander 5 14
Born: 24 Sep 1810 14
Christened:
Died: 6 Feb 1876 30
Buried:
Spouse: Joseph Alexander, Esq. (Abt 1808- ) 30
Marr: 14 Oct 1835 30
8 M Robert Alexander 5 14
Born: 10 May 1813 14
Christened:
Died: 22 Sep 1844 - St. Clair Co, IL 31
Buried:
Spouse: Catherine McKee ( - ) 31
9 F Matilda Alexander 5 32
Born: 7 Jan 1816 14
Christened:
Died: 6 May 1848 - St. Clair Co, IL 31
Buried: - Robert Hughes Graveyard, St. Clair Co, IL
Spouse: Foster Davis ( - ) 33
10 M Napoleon Bonaparte Alexander 5 34
Born: 1819 14
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Priscilla Alexander (1826- ) 35
Marr: 25 Feb 1845 31
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.