Sarah Roxeanna Davidson Alexander (1849-1925)

Sarah Roxeanna Davidson Alexander

Birth

15 Aug 1849

Burrville, Morgan County, Tennessee, USA

Death

15 Feb 1925 (aged 75)

Wilmore, Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA

Burial

Wilmore Cemetery

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When Sarah Roxeanna Davidson was born on August 15, 1849, in Morgan, Tennessee, her father, James, was 25, and her mother, Hannah, was 21. She married Samuel Logan Alexander on October 28, 1865, in her hometown. They had 13 children in 25 years. She died on February 15, 1925, in Wilmore, Kentucky, at the age of 75, and was buried there.

Wife of Samual L Alexander
Mother of 13 children including:
James R 1867-1934
Artelia 1868-1868 (infant)
Sarah Elizabeth 1869-1869 (infant)
Zerah Clementine 1871-1892
William Daley 1873-1959
Louisa Jane 1875-1879
Hannah Ibbydell 1876-1940
Millie B 1879-1952
Samual Timothy 1881-1939
Edward Lafayette 1884-1949
Ida F 1888-1946
Benjamin Bosworth 1891-1952

Sarah Roxeanna's father was James Davidson, he was a union soldier during the Civil War. James was a private in Company F, 1st Tennessee Infantry USA. He enlisted on August 9, 1862 at Montgomery, Tennessee and mustered out with his regiment on September 17, 1864 at Nashville, TN. James died in 1866 at the age of 42 from a disease he contracted during the war; his wife Hannah Peters Davidson was left a widow with 11 children, the youngest was James Clark who was only six months old, the other 10 children were all girls. Francis was oldest at 19 and Sarah Roxeanna was 17. Sarah's siblings:
Frances (1847-1873)
Rachel (1848-)
Rebecca J. (1851-1906)
Martha E. (1852-1921)
Kisar Angeline (1856-1947)
Emilla (Milla) (1857-1891)
Remuna ( Nina) (1860-1930)
Fannie R. (1862-)
Mary M. (1864-)
James Clark (1866-1946)

Sarah Roxeanna married Samual L Alexander 28 Oct 1865 in Morgan County, TN.They made their home on the farm in Fentress and Morgan County, TN until her husbands death in 1913.