Biographical Sketch of James Alexander, Greene County, Missouri,
Franklin Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Mr. Alexander is the son of Squire and Mary (Roney) Alexander and was
born November 24, 1809, in Blount county, Tennessee.  His father was a
native of North Carolina, but moved to Tennessee, and then in 1840 came
to Greene county, Missouri, and settled in Franklin township.  He died
in 1863 and his wife in 1862.  They are buried at Mt. Comfort.  They
had nine children, five sons and four daughters.  When James was quite
young his parents moved to Stewart county, Tennessee, and in the spring
of 1841 he came to this county, but returned to Tennessee in the 
following winter.  In 1843 he came back to Greene county where he has 
lived ever since.  He improved the farm now owned by Col. Thrasher, 
where he lived about thirty years and in 1874 he moved to his present
home upon section 21, township 30, range 21.  During the war Mr. Alex-
ander was in the Home Guards.  He had one son in the regular U. S. 
service and one in the militia.  Mr. Alexander was married in 1832 to
Nancy Sugg, of Stewart county, Tennessee.  They had three daughters by
this marriage, two are living.  His first wife died June 14, 1840 and
in 1842 he was married to Miss Mary P. Ford, of Stewart county, Tenn.
Their union has been blest with four sons and four daughters, all 
living.  His wife was stricken blind by a spell of fever in 1844, and
since then she knits about one hundred pairs of socks a year.  She is
an exemplary member of the Baptist church, and bears her affliction 
with Christian fortitude and patience.

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