Person:James Alexander (89)

His father's will names him with his siblings. His descendants seem to be proven by the will of his wife (see her notes) and the 1850, 1860 censuses and "The Alexander Family", by Montine Martin, Blakely, Georgia, p9-27.

1793 - His birth date is based on the calculated mar. date of his parents and the earliest known birth date of a child, 1813-20=1793. He must have been born in Georgia as his father was there both before and after Rev. War. DAR application #525545 has his date of birth and parentage clearly wrong; look at his father's birth date of 1754 as per James Madison Alexander bible. The descendants of James Wooten Alexander are in this DAR application, the error being in claiming him to be the son of Samuel and Bethia Castellaw Alexander.

bef March 1813 - This marriage date is calculated from a child's birth date of 1/18/1814 shown in DAR Application 525545. There is also a reference in "Collections of Early Co., Historical Society," Vol I, p271 (from Patti Andrews who also says they had a son names Asa C. S. Alexander).

1818 - Emily Childers (and therefore James W.) is said to have moved to Early Co., Georgia in 1818 and she has descendants who still live in Early Co. Georgia, p48 "Johnson-McCall & Related Families", Falba L. Johnson 1977 RL Bryan Columbia South Carolina.

1832 - There was a very interesting court case started in April, 1832 in which Asa C. A. Simmons was the plaintiff against Jas. W. Alexander, his uncle, founded on a note given by said Jas. W. Alexander dated June 8 , 1819 and payable to the legal representative of Asa C. A. Simmons, who was then a minor and his guardian was Asa C. Alexander, brother of the defendant. Asa C. Alexander is deceased and William Peek was still the administrator of Asa's estate. It seems that Asa had been the administrator of his father Samuel's estate and he'd paid the note out of the funds of that estate belonging to the defendant Jas. W. Wooten. Due to the passage of time, a letter from Asa to James (saying that the note had been paid from his estate funds) was lost so it was difficult to prove. In time, by 20 May 1834, witness were found and attested to the payment and the case was settled in favor of James. Prior to that a judgement for $350 plus interest was obtained and the jury had trouble twice figuring the interest correctly and were sent back each time--and the jury was composed of some of the best business men! However James was the winner. The book appears to be a compilation of reprints of newspaper columns; a xeroxed copy of two pages were sent to me by Patti Andrews ("Early (JOEL"?), Robert P. Dews. The above is my summary of the article.