Alex Dunivant was the husband of Leona (Hash) Dunivant.
His birth is recorded in the Grayson County, VA Birth Register of 1872 where he is listed as the son of Mother, Catherine Dunivant "unwed" and Father "unknown", but both born VA.
His mother had another child on the 1869 Grayson Birth Register named Charles Dunivant, same parent listings.
Alex was "bound out" by Grayson County order in 1875 , indentured to Wiley and Clara Pugh Stanford of Fox/Grayson Co, VA who raised him as their son with no formal adoption. It is presumed that his mother Catherine/Katie and brother Charles died in an epidemic of the time as no father assumed paternity prior to the court order . Katie is not found in any census after 1870 (with Charles).
Y DNA of a great grandson of Alexander and Leona has matches to only Paisley men. Numerous autosomal DNA matches confirm a biological father named Paisley.
His birth is recorded in the Grayson County, VA Birth Register of 1872 where he is listed as the son of Mother, Catherine Dunivant "unwed" and Father "unknown", but both born VA.
His mother had another child on the 1869 Grayson Birth Register named Charles Dunivant, same parent listings.
Alex was "bound out" by Grayson County order in 1875 , indentured to Wiley and Clara Pugh Stanford of Fox/Grayson Co, VA who raised him as their son with no formal adoption. It is presumed that his mother Catherine/Katie and brother Charles died in an epidemic of the time as no father assumed paternity prior to the court order . Katie is not found in any census after 1870 (with Charles).
Y DNA of a great grandson of Alexander and Leona has matches to only Paisley men. Numerous autosomal DNA matches confirm a biological father named Paisley.
Alex Dunivant was the husband of Leona (Hash) Dunivant.
His birth is recorded in the Grayson County, VA Birth Register of 1872 where he is listed as the son of Mother, Catherine Dunivant "unwed" and Father "unknown", but both born VA.
His mother had another child on the 1869 Grayson Birth Register named Charles Dunivant, same parent listings.
Alex was "bound out" by Grayson County order in 1875 , indentured to Wiley and Clara Pugh Stanford of Fox/Grayson Co, VA who raised him as their son with no formal adoption. It is presumed that his mother Catherine/Katie and brother Charles died in an epidemic of the time as no father assumed paternity prior to the court order . Katie is not found in any census after 1870 (with Charles).
Y DNA of a great grandson of Alexander and Leona has matches to only Paisley men. Numerous autosomal DNA matches confirm a biological father named Paisley.
His birth is recorded in the Grayson County, VA Birth Register of 1872 where he is listed as the son of Mother, Catherine Dunivant "unwed" and Father "unknown", but both born VA.
His mother had another child on the 1869 Grayson Birth Register named Charles Dunivant, same parent listings.
Alex was "bound out" by Grayson County order in 1875 , indentured to Wiley and Clara Pugh Stanford of Fox/Grayson Co, VA who raised him as their son with no formal adoption. It is presumed that his mother Catherine/Katie and brother Charles died in an epidemic of the time as no father assumed paternity prior to the court order . Katie is not found in any census after 1870 (with Charles).
Y DNA of a great grandson of Alexander and Leona has matches to only Paisley men. Numerous autosomal DNA matches confirm a biological father named Paisley.
Gravesite Details
The birth date on his gravestone is an error. See the Birth Register. Correct Birthdate is 7 February 1872 per Grayson County Birth Register for 1872, p 141, line 40.
