ALEXANDER, Mrs. Ann

ALEXANDER, POINSETT

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/3/2006 at 14:19:59

"Fairfield Ledger", July 27, 1881, Pg. 3, Col. 5

ALMOST A CENTENARIAN. On Thursday last, in this city, occurred the death of an aged woman, one whose years had almost equalled those of a century -- Mrs. Ann ALEXANDER, ninety-one years, six months old. Her maiden name was Ann ALEXANDER, and she was born at McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, where she was married to Hugh ALEXANDER, and resided there until her husband's death, nearly fifty-six years ago. Deceased had been a resident of Fairfield about thirty-three years, coming here with her family in the pioneer days.

She was the mother of six children: W.K., R.W., A.C. Susan J., Martha M., and Sarah J., the latter being Mrs. POINSETT. All these children, with the exception of the last named, who died a few months ago, are living here today, the youngest, Clark, being fifty-six years of age, and their ages aggregate nearly three hundred years, greater perhaps than those of any family in the county.....

[Elsewhere in the "Ledger" on this same date:
Death of Mrs. Ann (ALEXANDER) ALEXANDER.... (From the 1880 census, her father was born in Ireland.)]

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.