Joseph Alexander

    Joseph Alexander was born in Butler County, Ohio, November 27, 1820, and is a son of Samuel and Mary Alexander, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio respectively. Samuel Alexander was a son of Joseph and Frances Alexander, early settlers of Montgomery County, Indiana. They were the parents of ten children, seven of whom were sons -James, Joseph, Richard, Franklin, Hartley, John and Samuel. Samuel married Mary Kelley, in Ohio, and moved to Montgomery County, Indiana in 1835, where he died in 1842. In 1848, Mrs. Alexander and family removed to Tippecanoe County, and two years later to Warren County, where she died in 1858. They had a family of eleven children -Sarah, Frances, Margaret, Mary, Joseph, James, Samuel, R. W., Jane, George and Elizabeth.

    Joseph our subject, came with his mother to Warren County where, September 6, 1857, he married Miss Frances Hanks, born in Ross County, Ohio, November 16, 1816, daughter of Joseph and Margaret Hanks. Mr. Alexander is the father of three children -Wallace B. (died in the Untied States military service), Honora E. (deceased), and Runick W. He also possesses 288 acres of land.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.