Nancy Alexander

As printed in 1883

, post-office Nashville, Barton county. She settled where she now resides Oct. 7, 1866, coming from Illinois. She is a native of Piatt county, Ill., born Dec. 5, 1830, but she was raised in Macon county, Ill., being a daughter of David and Mary (Morris) See. Her father was a native of Virginia and her mother of Indiana. Both died when our subject was quite young. She married, Nov. 21, 1842, Mr. George Clinton Anderson, a native of Pickaway county, Ohio, born March 11, 1828. He was a son of John and Susan Anderson. He was raised and educated in Ohio, and when nineteen years of age went to Illinois with his parents and settled in Macon county\ Mr. and Mrs. Anderson settled on a farm in Piatt county and remained until they moved to Jasper county in 1866. He died a devoted Christian, Oct. 27, 1872, leaving the following children: Anna E., Flora A., William H., and Elmer F., having lost James M. and an infant. She married for her second husband Rev. J. C. Alexander, Jan. 23, 1878, a Christian minister and a native of New York, born in August, 1826. He first married Miss Caroline Sorrell, a native of Illinois. She died in December, 1876, leaving a family of five children: William E., Mary, Ida A., Gertrude, and Caroline.

As printed in The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominent (1883). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.