Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....Moses Alexander May 19 1836 - ?
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
MOSES ALEXANDER, the gentleman whose name introduces this mention, is a leading
planter of Barbour county, and the son of Ezekiel Alexander, who settled in the
vicinity of Eufaula, before the county had been thoroughly reclaimed from its
wilderness state. Ezekiel Alexander was born in Putnam county, Ga., in 1803. He
remained in his native county until his eighteenth year and then went to Fort
Gaines, but three years later returned to Putnam county, where, about the year
1824, he married Edna Dawson, after which he located in Henry county, Ala.. From
Henry county he moved to Dale county, lived there a few years, thence moved to
Pike county, and two years later returned to Dale county. In 1834 he purchased
of an Indian chief or agent the river plantation where his son Alexander now
lives, and lived on the same until his death in 1879. When he first came to
Alabama the Indians were quite troublesome and numerous and he frequently worked
hard all day in the field, and then rode to Irwinton in the evening and stood
guard at night to prevent settlers from being surprised. Irwinton was named in
honor of General Irwin, of Creek war fame, but the town is now called Eufaula -
the word "eufala" being Indian for "high bluff." He was a true type of of the
pioneer of fifty years ago, and made some of the earliest improvements in that
part of the county where he settled, among which was a mill, still standing and
in operation. His wife died on the 19th of April, 1850. Ezekiel and Edna
Alexander were the parents of seven children, four sons and three daughters,
three of whom, Jonas D., Moses, and Mary F. (wife of F. W. Smith), are living at
this time. Moses Alexander was born May 19th, 1836, at Fort Gaines, Ga., and
grew to manhood on the old farm which is now in his possession. In April, 1862,
he enlisted in Kolb's artillery company, with which he served throughout the
greater part of the war until the surrender at Augusta, Ga., on the 1st of May,
1865. He took part in the Atlanta campaigns and Hood's Tennesse raid, and fought
in a number of battles, including the engagements at Atlanta, Altoona, Franklin
and Nashville, Tenn. On leaving the army, Mr. Alexander returned home and
engaged in farming, which he has since carried on. He owns and farms a
plantation of 1,600 acres, and for a number of years has been one of the most
energetic and successful agriculturists in Barbour county. He is a
representative man in every respect and occupies a prominent place in the
estimation of the community. Mr. Alexander has been twice married; first, in
1868, to Lou E. Tucker, who bore him one child, Sarah Edna. Mrs. Alexander and
her daughter were both killed in 1879 by being thrown from a buggy while out
riding with an untried horse. The animal became frightened at a piece of paper
lying in the road and jumped to one side, throwing the little girl from the
vehicle, the wheel striking her head, killing her instantly. The mother was also
thrown to the ground and received injuries of the spine which caused her death a
few weeks after the distressing accident occurred. June 20, 1882, Mr. Alexander
was united in marriage to Ella, daughter of Capt. A. D. Bates of Batesburg, S.
C., to which union the following children have been born: Andrew Bates, the
eldest, died at fourteen months from teething; James M., the second born, died
at the age of eight months; the living children are named -William P., Mary E.
and Jonathan Dawson. Mr. Alexander is a member of the Masonic order, in which he
has taken the degree of Sir Knight; he is a democrat in politics.



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