Anna Isadora Jacobs, daughter of Fredus Howard Jacobs and Margaret Ann (Kennedy)Jacobs, was born in Clyde Twp/ Morrison, Whiteside County, Illinois, June 21, 1862. They lived near the Rock River.
Wearing a dark red dress,she married Charles Walter James Alexander in her mother's parlour, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov 25, 1880. They left immediately for Nebraska where CWJ had a homestead. She never saw her mother again, for her mother died a short time later.
Anna & CWJ lived in a "soddie" , which they converted to a barn, after building their house. They lived several miles from an Indian reservation, and had many adventures on the prairie.
After several years of bad crops & insects, they moved to Ohio in 1895, settling on Charles'Uncle Andrew Alexander's farm on Alexander Road, Bedford Township. Here they farmed until retiring from farming,they moved into town, ca 1920-21, buying a house at 103 Woodrow Ave.(Bedford)
Anna died 16 May 1951. She was buried next to her husband of 63 years, in Bedford Cemetery,19 May 1951.
Wearing a dark red dress,she married Charles Walter James Alexander in her mother's parlour, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov 25, 1880. They left immediately for Nebraska where CWJ had a homestead. She never saw her mother again, for her mother died a short time later.
Anna & CWJ lived in a "soddie" , which they converted to a barn, after building their house. They lived several miles from an Indian reservation, and had many adventures on the prairie.
After several years of bad crops & insects, they moved to Ohio in 1895, settling on Charles'Uncle Andrew Alexander's farm on Alexander Road, Bedford Township. Here they farmed until retiring from farming,they moved into town, ca 1920-21, buying a house at 103 Woodrow Ave.(Bedford)
Anna died 16 May 1951. She was buried next to her husband of 63 years, in Bedford Cemetery,19 May 1951.
Anna Isadora Jacobs, daughter of Fredus Howard Jacobs and Margaret Ann (Kennedy)Jacobs, was born in Clyde Twp/ Morrison, Whiteside County, Illinois, June 21, 1862. They lived near the Rock River.
Wearing a dark red dress,she married Charles Walter James Alexander in her mother's parlour, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov 25, 1880. They left immediately for Nebraska where CWJ had a homestead. She never saw her mother again, for her mother died a short time later.
Anna & CWJ lived in a "soddie" , which they converted to a barn, after building their house. They lived several miles from an Indian reservation, and had many adventures on the prairie.
After several years of bad crops & insects, they moved to Ohio in 1895, settling on Charles'Uncle Andrew Alexander's farm on Alexander Road, Bedford Township. Here they farmed until retiring from farming,they moved into town, ca 1920-21, buying a house at 103 Woodrow Ave.(Bedford)
Anna died 16 May 1951. She was buried next to her husband of 63 years, in Bedford Cemetery,19 May 1951.
Wearing a dark red dress,she married Charles Walter James Alexander in her mother's parlour, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov 25, 1880. They left immediately for Nebraska where CWJ had a homestead. She never saw her mother again, for her mother died a short time later.
Anna & CWJ lived in a "soddie" , which they converted to a barn, after building their house. They lived several miles from an Indian reservation, and had many adventures on the prairie.
After several years of bad crops & insects, they moved to Ohio in 1895, settling on Charles'Uncle Andrew Alexander's farm on Alexander Road, Bedford Township. Here they farmed until retiring from farming,they moved into town, ca 1920-21, buying a house at 103 Woodrow Ave.(Bedford)
Anna died 16 May 1951. She was buried next to her husband of 63 years, in Bedford Cemetery,19 May 1951.
