Alexander, Robert

ALEXANDER

Posted By: Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/13/2016 at 12:35:43

ROBERT ALEXANDER. Robert and Mary Jeanette Alexander left York County Pennsylvania and came to Iowa in the 1870s. They bought a farm north of the blacksmith shop in Grove Township where Norma Frain still lives. Mrs. John Frain and Hollis have passed away, and Lawrence is in a nursing home in CB.

Robert and Mary Jeanette had five children; Mary Elizabeth who married George Frain, William Alonzo who married Stella Kennedy, Ella Belle who married John J. Kilgore, John who married Bell Alexander, and Joseph who married Sarah Mercer.

Mary Elizabeth and George Frain were the parents of Mattie, Viola, Nettie, Lydia, Henry, Elmer, Sylvester, John Arthur, Clarence, Ernest, and Leona. Most of them lived in Pottawattamie Co. all their lives.

John and Bell Alexander moved to Council Bluffs and had three sons; Alonzo, Alfred and James.

Ella and John [Jack] Kilgore were the parents of Clyde, who was killed in Argonne, France during WW I, Arthur, and Vesta Viola. Two son’s died at an early age, Ralph and Carl and are buried in the Carson Cemetery.

Joseph and Sarah were the parents of Delpha, Morris, Vena, Jennie, and Verne Alexander. They moved to Adair and later to Polk County.

Submitted by: Gail Meyer Kilgore, Mar 2003
Publication: written by Gail Meyer Kilgore