John Tarkington ALEXANDER

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Living with parents in Milford, Decatur Co., Indiana
• Census: 1880, Living with parents in Milford, Decatur Co., Indiana
• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Washington, Decatur Co., Indiana
• Census: 1950, Living in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas

John married Claudia I. HILL on 25 Sep 1901 in Greensburg, Decatur Co., Indiana, and was divorced before 1930. Claudia was born on 8 Jul 1874 in Near Waynesburg, Indiana; died on 13 Jan 1957 in Greensburg, Decatur Co., Indiana; was buried on 16 Jan 1957 in Garland Brook Cemetery, Columbus, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Dr. John C. Alexander and Nancy Wilson
• Census: 1870, Living in Milford, Decatur Co., Indiana
• Census: 1880, Living in Milford, Decatur Co., Indiana
• Census: 1900, Living in Washington, Decatur County, Indiana
• Census: 1910, Living in Washington, Decatur County, Indiana

Notes:

Name:
Son of John C. and Nancy (Wilson) Alexander

Exerpts from History of Decatur County, Indiana, 1915

John H. Alexander was born on November 7, 1828, at Palestine, Illinois, and is the son of Dr. John C. and Nancy (Wilson) Alexander, natives of Kentucky and Virginia, respectively.....

Educated in the country schools of Illinois and at Danville, that state, after his father's death, Dr. John H. Alexander moved to Palestine, Illinois, where he attended the Parish Academy and later the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. In these times the schools were very crude, especially the buildings in which they were housed. he crossed the plains to California in 1850, by mule team, during the gold fever and spent eight years in the West. Locating in Decatur county, July 7, 1858, for the practice of his profession, four years later, on September 27, 1862, he enlisted in the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Col. Silas Colgrove, and was promoted to surgeon, july 15, 1864, having been commissioned assistant surgeon, September 27, 1862. he was mustered out of service on November 4, 1864.

In December, 1860, Doctor Alexander was married to Mary Tarkington, who was born on February 25, 1834, in Greensburg, Indiana, a daughter of Rev. Joseph Tarkingtoin, a well-known pioneer minister of the Methodist church.....

Dr. and Mrs. Alexander have had two children, John T., who lives in Greensburg, and Joseph H., a traveling drug salesman of Springfield, Illinois. John T., who also is a traveling salesman, married Claudia Hill. joseph H. married Myrilla Anderson and they have one child, Margaret June......

Family

John married Mary Melissa TARKINGTON on 09 Dec 1860 in at the farm near Greensburg, Decatur, Indiana, USA. Mary (daughter of Rev. Joseph TARKINGTON and Maria SLAWSON) was born on 26 Feb 1834 in Greensburg, Decatur Co., Indiana; died on 08 Aug 1923 in Greensburg, Decatur Co., Indiana; was buried on 10 Aug 1923 in South Park Cemetery, Greensburg, Decatur Co., Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Greencastle, Putnam Co., Indiana
• Census: 1860, Living with parents in Washington, Decatur Co., Indiana
• Census: 1870, Living with husband in Milford, Decatur Co., Indiana
• Census: 1880, Living with husband in Milford, Decatur Co., Indiana
• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Washington, Decatur Co., Indiana
• Census: 1910, Living with husband in Greensburg, Decatur Co., Indiana
• Census: 1920, Living in Greensburg, Decatur Co., Indiana