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Author: Goodspeed

p. 876.

ALEXANDER, RENEGAR, CRISMAN, SMITH



J. S. ALEXANDER, proprietor of livery and feed stable, of Fayetteville,

begin business in 1876, and although his success was on a very small scale

at first, he is at present the owner of eight vehicles and twelve horses,

and is constantly increasing his stock.  He was born in Lincoln County in

1838, son of Wiley M. and Nancy (RENEGAR) ALEXANDER, born, respectively, in

Tennessee and North Carolina in 1816.  The father was an early settler of

Lincoln County, and was a stock speculator and a man of exceptional

business capacity.  He was married in 1835, and died in 1881.  He was tax

collector and sheriff of the county several years.  Of his eight children,

four are living:  W. S., J. S. (our subject), W. W. and Philomena (Mrs. A.

J. CRISMAN).  Our subject was educated in Mulberry, Tenn., and at the age

of sixteen began clerking in a dry goods store, and two years later went to

Shelbyville, where he was engaged in the grocery business for two years.

In 1861 he enlisted in Company B, First Tennessee Regiment, and fought in

the battle of Manasses, Gettysburg, Sharpsburg, Cedar Run, Seven Pines,

Richmond, Chancellorsville, Harper's Ferry, Fredericksburg and Petersburg,

where he was wounded and taken prisoner, and was taken to Washington, D.

C., the day Lee surrendered.  In 1865 he returned, after an absence of four

years.  December 22, 1868, he wedded Florinda H. SMITH, daughter of

Champion E. SMITH.  Mrs. Alexander was born in Lincoln County, Tenn., May

18, 1845, and is the mother of four children:  George R., Claud, Frank and

an infant son.  He farmed four years after the war, and in 1873 came to

Fayetteville, and established a retail liquor store, but ten years later

engaged in his present occupation.  He is a Democrat, and cast his first

presidential vote for Stephen A. Douglas in 1860.



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