Rhoda CUNNINGHAM[1, 2, 3]
Female 1763 - 1848


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  • Birth  15 Aug 1763  Maryland or Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    • 15 Oct 1763, Maryland -> Asheville and Buncombe County
      15 Oct 1763, Pennsylvania -> Western North Carolina
      15 Oct 1763; Lancaster Co, PA -> DAR app 416655
    Gender  Female 
    Residence  Abt 1776  , York, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    • *She "removed to South Carolina before her marriage." -> Asheville and Buncombe County
      *      "the family moved to South Carolina in the York District where they were living when Humphrey saw service in the American Revolution." -> Heritage of Old Buncombe
    Residence  Abt 1783  Bee Tree, Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Address:
    the old Alexander Place 
    • "James Alexander after his marriage removed to Buncombe County with his father and uncle and settled on Bee Tree, the old Alexander Place. They came over the Swannanoa Gap. . ." -> Asheville and Buncombe County
    Residence  Abt 1785  , Rowan, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • "After the War, he moved to Rowan County and probably, later in life, came into Old Buncombe County with his children Rhoda Alexander and his son George Cunningham." -> Old Buncombe Heritage
    Military  From 1844 to 1848  , Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • She received a widow's pension on her husband's service in the Revolutionary War from the time of his death in 1844 to hers in 1848. -> Asheville and Buncombe County
    Will  18 Feb 1844  , Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • Received a bequest in James Alexander's will -> Will Abstracts of Buncombe County
    Buried  1848  Swannanoa, Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died  29 Jan 1848  , Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7] 
    • 29 Jan 1848, Buncombe County, NC -> Asheville and Buncombe County
      29 Jan 1848; DAR app 416655
    Notes 
    • Name:
      Rhoda (Cunningham) Alexander -> History of South Carolina
      Rhoda Cunningham -> DAR app 416655

      Connection to parents:
      *She is named as a daughter of Humphrey Cunningham in History of South Carolina.
      *She is named as a daughter of Humphrey Cunningham -> Heritage of Old Buncombe County
    Person ID  I1604  Kendrick-Hemphill
    Last Modified  27 Dec 2012 

    Father  Humphrey CUNNINGHAM,   b. 1730, , , Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Mar 1806, , Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Rhoda Ervin SUMMERVILLE,   b. Mar 1733, Donigal, , , Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jan 1831, Wartrace, Bedford County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F52  Group Sheet

    Family  James ALEXANDER,   b. 23 Dec 1756, Buffalo Creek, Rowan, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jun 1844, Bee Tree Creek, Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  19 Mar 1782  Allison Creek, York, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 6] 
    • *19 Mar 1782; York District, SC -> Asheville and Buncombe County
      *19 Mar 1782 -> DAR app 416655
      *James names Rhoda as his wife in his will. -> Buncombe County Will Abstracts
    Children 
     1. John C. ALEXANDER,   b. 22 Mar 1783,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Rhoda C. ALEXANDER,   b. 6 Nov 1785,   d. Sep 1881
    >3. George C. ALEXANDER,   b. 10 Sep 1790, , Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Oct 1880, , Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
    >4. Colonel James Mitchell ALEXANDER,   b. 22 May 1793, , Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jun 1858, Montrealla, Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Robert S. ALEXANDER,   b. 2 Sep 1795, , Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jul 1868
     6. Rachel ALEXANDER,   b. 30 Dec 1797,   d. Yes, date unknown
    >7. William Davidson ALEXANDER,   b. 10 Dec 1800, , Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Nov 1872, Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
     8. Newton Humphrey ALEXANDER,   b. 11 Jun 1803, , Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Dec 1847
    >9. Elizabeth A. ALEXANDER,   b. 10 Apr 1806, , Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Sep 1848, , Murray, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID  F51  Group Sheet

  • Sources 
    1. [S499] Yates Snowden and Henry Gardner Cutler, ed, History of South Carolina, Volume IV (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1920), ; digital images, Google Books (http://google.com/books : accessed ., accessed; 11 May 2011; 257; this book was co-authored by a historian, but does not include source citations (Reliability: 2).

    2. [S514] , , ; National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Library, Washington, D.C., Membership application; Margaret Kathlene Ledbetter Ragaz; National no. 416655; on James Alexander (1756-1844, North Carolina), approved 1952 (Reliability: 2).

    3. [S652] W. E. Bryson, "Humphrey and Rhoda (Summerville) Cunningham (301)," The Heritage of Old Buncombe County, Ward Doris Cline, and Charles D. Biddix (Asheville, North Carolina: The Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society, 1981), ., p. 188 (Reliability: 2).

    4. [S501] F. A. Sondley and Theodore F. Davidson, Asheville and Buncombe County (Asheville, NC: The Citizen Co., 1922), ; digital images, Google Books (http://google.com/books : accessed ., accessed; 11 May 2011; 151; this book refers to many original records which offer primary information although it does not include source citations as such (Reliability: 2).

    5. [S502] John Preston Arthur, Western North Carolina: a history (1730-1913) (Raleigh, NC: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution of North Carolina. Edward Buncombe Chapter, Asheville, 1914), ; digital images, Google Books (http://google.com/books : accessed ., accessed; 11 May 2011; 153; this book includes footnotes, but none are offered for this item (Reliability: 2).

    6. [S669] Margaret Wallis Haile, Abstracts of wills, Buncombe County, NC, 1792 to 1904 (Asheville, N. C.: Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society, 2001)., p. 34 (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S501] F. A. Sondley and Theodore F. Davidson, Asheville and Buncombe County (Asheville, NC: The Citizen Co., 1922), ; digital images, Google Books (http://google.com/books : accessed ., accessed; 11 May 2011; 151-152; this book refers to many original records which offer primary information although it does not include source citations as such (Reliability: 2).



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