Person:Pheriba Alexander (1)

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Pheriba Alexander
b.18 Jul 1807 Georgia
d.25 Mar 1898 Upson, Georgia
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Name Pheriba Alexander
Gender Female
Birth? 18 Jul 1807 Georgia
Marriage 28 Dec 1824 Barbour Co., Alabamato Davis Williams Dawson
Death? 25 Mar 1898 Upson, Georgia

Moses Alexander bible (grandson of Asa Alexander, Sr.).

DAR appl.580799 (Katherine Alexander Mims) & 174821 (Sarah Standifer's appl.]; Sarah Standifer microf. notes LDS; "Johnson-McCall and Related Families", Falba L. Johnson, 1979, RL Bryan Co., Columbia South Carolina, p48. Sarah Standifer said that she was married in Barbour Co., Alabama at her brother Ezekiel's house. Her husband had gone to visit his sister Edaline Dawson Alexander, Pheriba to visit her brother over the Christmas holidays. They fell in love and were married there. Davis Dawson took his bride to his home in Upson Co., Georgia in a buckboard (a two wheeled buggy). She died there in 1898 where she had reared her family. She used the same spot for a garden for 74 years.