Colonel James Mitchell ALEXANDER[1, 2, 3]
Male 1793 - 1858


HomeHome    SearchSearch    PrintPrint    Login - User: anonymousLogin    BookmarkBookmark

Personal Information    |    Sources    |    All    |    PDF

  • Prefix  Colonel 
    Birth  22 May 1793  , Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Address:
    Bee Tree 
    • 22 May 1793 at "the Alexander Place on Bee Tree" -> Asheville and Buncombe County
    Gender  Male 
    Occupation  From 1816 to 1828  Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    on the west side of South Main Street 
    Address:
    the Hilliard residence 
    • He was a saddler and operated a hotel.
    Residence  From 1816 to 1828  Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    on the west side of South Main Street 
    Address:
    the Hilliard residence 
    • "In 1816 James Mitchell Alexander removed to Asheville
    Occupation  1828  Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Address:
    Alexander's Hotel 
    • From 1828 on, "he bought and improved the place on the eastern side of French Broad River at Alexander's known in the early days as the 'Alexander Hotel' and 'French Broad.' Here for a great many years he conducted a hotel and merchandise business, and carried on a tanyard, a shoe-shop, a harness-shop, a blacksmith-shop, a grist mill, a saw mill, a farm and a wagon-shop. His hotel was famous from Cincinnati to Charleston for its superior accommodations. In the latter part of his life he turned over his business to his son, the late A. M. Alexander, and one of his sons-in-law, the late J. S. Burnett. . ."
      -> Asheville and Buncombe County
    Religion  Methodist  [2] 
    Died  11 Jun 1858  Montrealla, Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • 11 Jun 1858, Montrealla -> Asheville and Buncombe County
    Buried  Aft 11 Jun 1858  Montrealla, Buncombe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Address:
    Alexander's Chapel 
    Notes 
    • Name:
      Col. James Mitchell Alexander -> History of South Carolina
      James Mitchell Alexander -> Asheville and Buncombe County
      James Mitchell Alexander -> DAR app 416655

      Connection to parents:
      *He is named as a son of James and Rhoda (Cunningham) Alexander in History of South Carolina.
      *He is named as the grandson of John Alexander who married Rachel Davidson and as a "son of James Alexander and Rhoda, his wife" in Asheville and Buncombe County.
      *      Named as a child of James Alexander and Rhoda Cunningham -> DAR app 416655
    Person ID  I2289  Kendrick-Hemphill
    Last Modified  28 Dec 2012 

    Father  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 
    Mother  Rhoda CUNNINGHAM,   b. 15 Aug 1763, Maryland or Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Jan 1848, , 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 
    Family ID  F51  Group Sheet

    Family  Nancy FOSTER,   b. 17 Nov 1797,   d. 14 Jan 1862 
    Married  8 Sep 1814  [1, 2] 
    • "James Alexander married Miss Nancy Foster. . ." -> History of South Carolina
      8 Sep 1814, he married Nancy Foster -> Asheville and Buncombe County
    Children 
    >1. Eliza ALEXANDER,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Alfred M. ALEXANDER,   d. Bef 1922
    Family ID  F1046  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. [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; 150-153; this book refers to many original records which offer primary information although it does not include source citations as such (Reliability: 2).

    3. [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).



Family Tree database powered by The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding ©, written by Darrin Lythgoe 2001-2013.