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Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee 1887<\/big><\/big>

Biographies of Weakley County<\/big>


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James K. P. ALEXANDER<\/strong> is one of six children born to Joseph and Flora (Shaw) Alexander, and first saw the light of day in Henry County, Tennessee, in 1843. South Carolina was the birthplace of Joseph Alexander.\u00a0 He was born about 1814 and was of Dutch descent, and an immigrant to Tennessee in 1828.\u00a0\u00a0 He was married when about twenty years old, and one child was born to the union.\u00a0\u00a0 Soon after Mrs. Alexander died, and in 1837 he married Miss Flora Shaw, who was born in Weakley County, and died in 1852.\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Alexander died on his farm in Henry County, in 1858.\u00a0\u00a0 Our subject’s parents having died when he was quite small, he found parental care and protection with his uncle, Simpson Alexander, with whom he remained until he was about eighteen years of age.\u00a0 At the out-breaking of the Rebellion he enlisted in Company I, Fifth Tennessee, and was in the battles of Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, being wounded severely at the latter place, and unfitted for further service. He served however at intervals until the final surrender, and returned home May 20, 1865,\u00a0 just four years from he day of his enlistment.\u00a0\u00a0 He began farming, and in 1866 entered the mercantile business at Gleason and continued the same, being also express and freight agent at that place. \u00a0\u00a0 January 19,1861, he wedded Sue F., daughter of Dr. G. H. and N. M. Burnett, by whom he had five children, three of whom are living: Ione B., Homer and Carlos B. \u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Alexander lives on his farm of 280 acres, at Gleason, and is a man of thrift and sterling business, qualities.\u00a0\u00a0 He has made his\u00a0 life a success financially, and being a Democrat he cast Whig first presidential vote for Horace Greeley.\u00a0 He is a Mason.\u00a0 Mrs. Alexander was born in Tennessee in 1852. \u00a0 Her parents were born in l828 and 1829, respectively.\u00a0 The father died in 1876, and the mother is residing at Marion, IL.

Columbus P. ALLEN, M. D.,<\/strong> is a son of Robert and\u00a0 Sarah (Cobb) Allen, who were the parents of twelve children and were born in South Carolina in 1793 and 1800, and died in 1837 and 1838, respectively.\u00a0 The father served as captain in the war of 1812, and his uniform and sword are still in the possession of his descendants.\u00a0 He was a gunsmith by trade and after living in Georgia for some time moved to Alabama, where his death occurred.\u00a0 Having been left an orphan at an early day, our subject, who was born in Georgia, in July, 1834, made his home with an elder brother, with whom he remained until he was about fifteen years of age.\u00a0\u00a0 He worked for about three years on a farm, and in the meantime secured a good common school education, which he finished at La Fayette, Ala. Having a predilection for the medical profession he, in 1853, began studying with his brother, R. C., with whom he remained until 1856, and then began studying medicine in the Nashville University, remaining one year.\u00a0\u00a0 He then returned to Alabama, locating in Randolph County, where he remained one year and moved to Mississippi. In 1874 he located in Hardin County, Tenn., but in 1885 came to Sharon, where he successfully practices his profession and deals in drugs.\u00a0 In 1862 he offered his services to the Confederacy and served in a Mississippi cavalry regiment in the capacity of surgeon.\u00a0 At the close of the war he returned home.\u00a0 He has been a life-long Democrat and belongs to the Masonic fraternity.\u00a0 In 1859 he married Sarah A. Wroten,\u00a0 daughter of Elisha Wroten, of Mississippi.\u00a0 Of their eleven children, eight are living: Dr. William R., Amanda J. (Mrs. W. T. Moore), Dr. John P., Anna, Jane P., Charles A., Lou A. and George A. \u00a0\u00a0 Dr. and Mrs. Allen are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee 1887 Biographies of Weakley County Biographies – A \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 James K. P. ALEXANDER is one of six children born to Joseph and Flora (Shaw) Alexander, and first saw the light of day in Henry County, Tennessee, in 1843. South Carolina was the birthplace of Joseph Alexander.\u00a0 He was born about 1814 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-gutenberg.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"MaryCarol","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/author\/marycarol\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 3, 2020","modified":"Updated on October 3, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 3, 2020 5:03 am","modified":"Updated on October 3, 2020 5:10 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}