ALEXANDER FAMILY: Wm and Mary College Qrtly V11, No.2, pp. 115 - 121

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ALEXANDER FAMILY

(Continued from Vol. XI., p. 67.)
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  3 JUNIUS BRUTUS(6)ALEXANDER married, for his second wife, November 21, 1866, 
Eliza H. Newcomb, born in Baton Rouge, La., September 13, 1838.
  
  3 JUNIUS BRUTUS(6)ALEXANDER and Eliza H. Newcomb had issue, (1) Junius Brutus 
Alexander, Jr., born Brooklyn, N. Y., September 28, 1867; married June 25, 1890, 
Effie Shaw Emmons, born August 21, 1870; died January 11, 1899. They had issue, 
(1) Junius Beverly Alexander, born August 10, 1892; (2) Frank Emmons Alexander, 
born May 14, 1895. (2) Maria Louisa Alexander, born _____; married, November 25, 
1891, Reuben Francis Richards, son of Reuben A. Richards and Annie Francis 
White, of Boston, Mass. Reuben Francis Richards was


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born June 25, 1864, and died February 26, 1899. They had issue, (1) Junius 
Alexander Richards, born October 7, 1892; (2) Louise Beverly, born May 13, 1896. 
Maria Louisa Alexander (Richards) married second, December 25, 1900, Charles 
Frost Aldrich, son of Thomas Baily Aldrich, born September 17, 1868.
  
  4 CECELIA GERALDINE(6) ALEXANDER, born September 13, 1816, married April 25, 
1838, Col. John Byers Anderson, born 1816, in Washington county, Pa., son of 
Rev. Dr. John Anderson. 
  
  The Boston Transcript says, "Colonel John B. Anderson was born in Washington 
county, Pa., eighty years ago, and was graduated at Washington and Jefferson 
College in 1836. He founded and for several years conducted the Anderson Female 
Institute, in New Albany. He was at one time general superintendent of the New 
Albany and Chicago Railroad, and in 1859 was general superintendent of the 
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway. At the opening of the civil war he 
was superintendent of transportation of the Louisville and Nashville Railway, 
and the commander of the Army of the Cumberland placed him in charge of all the 
military railways in his department. Secretary of War Stanton recognized his 
services, and conferred upon him the title of colonel in 1863. Of late years he 
has been identified with different railroad projects in the West."
  
  The New York Times' Saturday Review, of September 21, 1901, in noticing "How 
They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told by Themselves," by Orison 
Swett Marden, says, "All through the book will be found facts of importance, as, 
for instance, when we find that Andrew Carnegie's interest and benefactions to 
libraries grew out of the fact that Colonel Anderson, of Allegheny City, where 
Mr. Carnegie lived as boy -- a man well-to-do and philanthropic -- announced 
that he would be in his library at home every Saturday, ready and willing to 
lend books to workingmen and boys. This library contained only about four 
hundred volumes, but Mr. Carnegie says that only those who have longed for 
Saturday to come as he did, and the other boys, can realize what Colonel 
Anderson's kindness did for them. Not a few of these boys have risen to 
eminence, and Mr. Carnegie feels sure that rise is traceable to the golden 
opportunity offered by Colonel Anderson."


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  On the fiftieth anniversary of the wedding of Col. John B. Anderson and 
Cecilia Geraldine Alexander, their friends far and wide celebrated the event by 
gifts of books to the library of Emporia College, Kansas, which was named for 
John B. Anderson. To these books were added many selection from the private 
library of Colonel Anderson, who was widely read in literature and art, and 
thoroughly conversant with the needs of the students. Mr. Carnegie has since, 
through Mrs. Anderson, given largely to this library as a memorial of Colonel 
Anderson's kindness to him as a boy, and is having a bust made of him to place 
in the library at Pittsburg, Pa.

  5 ARMISTEAD MASON(6) ALEXANDER, born April 16, 1819; died May 16, 1839.

  6 ANDREW JACKSON (6) ALEXANDER, born January 15, 1821; married, September 6, 
1843, Lucy Attala Washington, daughter Henry Washington and Catherine Robertson 
Bate. They have issue: 35 Junius Brutus(7) Alexander, 36 Henry Washington(7) 
Alexander, 37 Gerard Mason(7) Alexander, 38 and 39 Robert Washington(7) and 
Richard Barnes(7) Alexander (twins), 40 Elizabeth Toy(7) Alexander, 41 Catherine 
Robertson(7)Alexander, 42 Ernest Fitzhugh(7)Alexander, 43 William Sigismund(7) 
Alexander, 44 Bate Washington(7)Alexander, 45 Lucy Fitzhugh(7)Alexander.

  35 JUNIUS BRUTUS(7)ALEXANDER, born June 26, 1844; married February 28, 1865, 
Lydia Meriwether, daughter of Evan Meriwether and Julia O. Armstrong. They have 
issue, (1) Julia Lee Alexander, born February 5, 1866; married, June 6, 1888, 
Donald McDonald, son of Donald McDonald and Elizabeth Leach. One child, Junius 
Alexander McDonald, born November 18, 1889. (2) Lily Gerard Alexander, born 
October 11, 1876; married first, February 17, 1897, E. D. Standiford, and 
second, June 9, 1900, Bruce Kremer.

  36 HENRY WASHINGTON(7) ALEXANDER, born Sept. 2, 1846; died January 12, 1886; 
married, December 9, 1880, Jenny Pomeroy Ladd, of Quincy, Ill. Had issue, (1) 
Susie Ladd Alexander, born July 17, 1883.
  
  37 GERARD MASON(7) ALEXANDER born January 10, 1849. Unmarried.

  38 and 39 ROBERT WASHINGTON(7) and RICHARD BARNES(7) ALEXANDER (twins), born 
February 22, 1851. Robert Washington died July 1, 1851. Richard Barnes died July 
22, 1851.

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  40 Elizabeth Toy(7) Alexander, born June 18, 1852; married, January 23, 1873, 
Dr. Edwin T. Hutchinson, of Bloomington, Ind., son of Thomas and Jane 
Hutchinson. They have issue, (1) Andrew Jackson Hutchinson, born March 4, 1874. 
(2) Henry Alexander Hutchinson, born September 7, 1879.

  41 CATHERINE ROGERTSON(7) ALEXANDER, born Oct. 20, 1854; died September ___, 
1863.

  42 ERNEST FITZHUGH(7) ALEXANDER, born Nov. 19, 1857; married, January 27, 
1886, Minnie L. Drury. They have issue, (1) Gerard Mason Alexander, born July 
29, 1888; (2) Ernest Fitzhugh Alexander, born March 7, 1892; (3) Lillie 
Alexander, born March 10, 1894; (4) Donald Lee Alexander, born July 18, 1898.

  43 WILLIAM SIGISMUND(7)  ALEXANDER, born May 12, 1860; died April 2, 1896; 
married, Nov. 27, 1889, Mamie Henderson. One child, Marian Gerard Alexander, 
born June 21, 1891.
  44 BATE WASHINGTON(7) ALEXANDER, born Nov. 18, 1862; married, March 30, 1885, 
Mary J. Spalding. They have issue, (1) Henrietta Alexander, born December 27, 
1886; (2) William Sigismund Alexander, born February 22, 1888; (3) Blanch 
Alexander, born February 23, 1890; (4) Juinus B. Alexander, born August 21, 
1892; (5) Lucy Fitzhugh Alexander, born May 7, 1895.

  45 LUCY FITZHUGH(7) ALEXANDER, born May 20, 1865; married, Nov. 19, 1885, Neil 
C. Murray, of St. Paul, Minn. They have issue, (1) Carrie J. Murray, born 
October 12, 1887; (2) William Porter Murray, born September 29, 1890; (3) Gerard 
Alexander Murray, born July 10, 1892; (4) Dorris Murray, born March 10, 1895.

  7 MARIA BEVERLY(6) ALEXANDER, born Jan. 24, 1824; married, January 25, 1842, 
William Cole Woolfolk, born December 14, 1818, at Orange Courthouse, Va. He was 
the son of William Woolfolk and Susan Cole. They had issue:
  
  a. SUSAN COLE WOOLFOLK, born Dec. 15, 1843, married first, John Sutton 
Woolfolk, January 5, 1865. They had issue, (1) William Beverly Woolfolk, born 
November 29, 1866; married, July -, 1898, Maud Royal. One child, Marvin Beverly, 
born July 10, 1890. (2) Fannie Alexander Woolfolk, born March 12, 1869; 
unmarried. (3) Sarah Lee Woolfolk, born May 21, 1871; married, December 25, 
1897, Thomas Barbee Armstrong.

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(4) John Sutton Woolfolk, born November 6, 1873. (5) Ann Mary Woolfolk, born 
April 22, 1877; died May 7, 1877. (6) Lawrence Alexander Woolfolk, born February 
20, 1879; died same day. Susan Cole Woolfolk (Woolfolk) married, May 5, 1890, 
William H. Sale, who died April 27. 1899.
 
  b. ANN CECILIA WOOLFOLK, born December 8, 1845; married, January 1, 1868, 
Philip Thompson Watkins. They have issue, (1) Maria Beverly Watkins, born 
December 11, 1868; married, April 25, 1900, to Frederick Harris Pierce. (2) 
Thomas Nicholas Watkins, born October 21, 1870. (3) Virginia Griffith Watkins, 
born January 31, 1872; married, January 14, 1891, Donald Robinson Tyler, who 
died December 20, 1889. They had issue, (1) Donald Robinson Watkins Tyler, born 
March 23, 1893; (2) Nanette Watkins Tyler, born November 10, 1894, died November 
24, 1900. (4) Susan McGill Watkins, born July 9, 1873. (5) Philip Thompson 
Watkins, born September 6, 1874. (6) Mary Jewell Watkins, born August 6, 1875. 
(7) Kate Howard Watkins, born January 23, 1877; died April 6, 1877. (8) Louise 
Cecilia Watkins, born July 10, 1878.

  c. ELIZABETH HENRY WOOLFOLK, born November 4, 1848; married, November 5, 1872, 
James Hunter Bell. She died June 12, 1880. They had issue, (1) William Anderson 
Bell, been August 17, 1873; died June 15, 1877. (2) Louisa Bering Bell, born 
April 19, 1875; died May 22, 1880. (3) Junius Woolfolk Bell, born July 17, 1876. 
(4) William Woolfolk Bell, born June 28, 1878; died August 24, 1886.

  d. MARY HERNDON WOOLFOLK, born August 8, 1850; married, first, September 16, 
1874, Harry L. Jewell, who died February __, 1882, and second, June __, 1892, 
Frank Baker.

  e. GERALD ALEXANDER WOOLFOLK, born March 2, 1852.

  f. WILLIAM COLE WOOLFOLK, born February 28, 1854; died March 10, 1854.

  g. JUNIUS ALEXANDER WOOLFOLK, M.D., born Aug. 2, 1865; married, March 29, 
1899, Amelia Birk. They have one child, Mary Beverly Woolfolk, born June 29, 
1900.
  h. DIXIE DAVIS WOOLFOLK, born August 5, 1861; married, January 29, 1887, 
Camden Riley. They have issue, (1) Camden Woolfolk Riley, born November 26, 
1887; (2) Beverly Alexander Riley, born July 17, 1890.

  i. MARIA BEVERLY WOOLFOLK, born August 17, 1866; died September 12, 1867.


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  8. GERARD(6) ALEXANDER M. D., U. S. N., born August 13, 1826; died in Texas 
October 20, 1876. Graduated Louisville Medical College, and again at Jefferson 
Medical College of Philadelphia. Was appointed Assistant Surgeon U. S. N. May 1, 
1850. Assistant Surgeon to North Pacific exploring expedition, authorized by 
Congress August 3, 1862. Sailed via Cape Good Hope June, 1853. September, 1854, 
sailed from Hong Kong to the Bonin and Ladrone Islands. Returned to Hong Kong in 
February, 1855. Sailed March, 1855, to Behring Sea. Arrived in Sea Francisco, 
Cal., October, 1855. Resigned March 8, 1856. This information from records at 
Washington. I find in the Bible of his brother, Andrew Jackson Alexander, that 
he was of Commodore Perry's second expedition to Japan. This is in shape of a 
note after the record of the death of Gerard Alexander.

  9 FRANCES HARRIET(6) ALEXANDER,  born March 6, 1829; married, October 29, 
1848, Dr. Howard Smith, of New Orleans, La., son of Gen. Persifor Smith, U. S. 
A. Howard Smith died 1892. They had issue:
a. Persifor Frazer Smith, born October 28, 1851. Unmarried. 

  b. Frances Jeannette Smith, born Feb. 14, 1854; married February 13, 1879, 
Judge James Hannah Austin, of Junction City Kan. They have issue, (1) Ruth 
Austin, born ___, married, December 31, 1901, to Lester W. Hall, of Kansas City, 
Mo. (2) Howard A. Austin, born ___. (3) James H. Austin, born ___.
	
  c.  Cecilia Beverly Smith, born May 2, 1856; married, August 8, 1877, Joseph 
Swift Doane, of New Orleans, La. They have issue, (1)___; (2)___; (3) ___.

  d. Elizabeth Alexander Smith, born October 5, 1860; married, June 12, 1884, 
Frank Lee Gordon, of New Orleans, La.

  e. Blanche Smith, born April 12, 1866; married, June 12, 1889, Oliver J. Paul, 
of New Orleans, La.
 
  f. Mabel Smith, born November 30, 1869; married June 10, 1893, William Axford 
Galentine, of St. Louis, Mo.

  10. RICHARD BARNES(6) ALEXANDER,  born near Brandenburg, Ky., March 8, 1831; 
died in Louisville, Ky., November 26, 1880; married December 16, 1856, Susan 
Hart Wallace, born December 16, 1831, daughter of Arthur Hart Wallace, born in 
Culpeper county, Va., and Letitia Preston Hart, born in Woodford county,

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Ky. They have issue, (1) Letitia Hart Alexander, born October 20, 1857. (2) 
Arthur Wallace Alexander, born April 7, 1859; died May __, 1871. (3) Elizabeth 
Gerard Alexander, born March 12, 1861; died October 26, 1866. (4) Mary Lee 
Alexander, born August 29, 1863. (5) Florence Beverly Alexander, born June 9, 
1866; married, June 7, 1894, Charles Francis Leathers, son of John H. Leathers 
and Katherine Armstrong. Two children, (1) Katherine Beverly Leathers, born 
March 10, 1895; (2) Richard Alexander Leathers, born February 19, 1897.