From Mecklenburg to Moore: Four North Carolina Families
      

Descendants of Telemacus & Hannah Smith Alexander:

Jane Rankin Alexander, m. William Carroll Bigham

Silas and Mary Alexander, parents
of Telemacus Alexander 		Telemacus &
Hannah Smith Alexander 		John & Prudence Smith,
Probable Parents of Hannah
Children of Telemacus & Hannah Alexander:
Jane
Rankin 		Martha
Ann 		James
Wallace 		John
Smith 		Silas
Washington 		William
N. 		Prudence
Morehead 		Ulysses
Columbus 		Oswald
A. 		Mary
Steele


Steele Creek Presbyterian Church

Jane Rankin Alexander was born March 20, 1820.1 She married William Carroll Bigham on May 8, 1845, in Mecklenburg County.2 William was born May 28, 1818.3 In the 1850 census, they are listed in the Paw Creek District, with two young children.4 They had seven children: Emma, Hannah Elizabeth, Wallace Milton, Jasper Newton, William Hamilton, Martha Katherine, and James D..5

W.C. Bigham served in the 4th Senior Reserves, Company K, during the Civil War.6 He died March 24, 1886. Jane died July 30, 1892. They were buried at Steele Creek Church in Mecklenburg County.7 Several of the children's graves are at Mulberry Presbyterian Church in Mecklenburg County.8

Footnotes:

1. Stafford, Dr. Alvah, Alexander Notebooks, (Charlotte NC: Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, 1985) Volume 1, pp. 80-81.

2. Microfilm of Marriage Bond Abstracts pre-1868, Mecklenburg, (Genealogical Society of Utah, 1942).

3. Gravestone at Steele Creek Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, NC.

4. Population Schedule of the Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, North Carolina, (Washington: National Archives and Record Service) pp. 22, family #355. gravestone of Jane Alexander Bigham

5. Bill Bigham, "The Descendants of Samuel Bigham and Nancy L. McKnight," December 15, 1998, http://members.aol.com/wmbigham/bigham/sbnlm/fam00110.htm/ (Aug. 7, 2005); Population Schedule of the Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, Roll 906, North Carolina, Vol. 11, (Washington: National Archives and Record Service, 1967) Family #372 of Western Division, Charlotte.

6. Matthew Brown, Editor, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume XVI (Raleigh: North Carolina Office of Archives and History).

7. Gravestones at Steele Creek Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, NC.; Obituary of Mrs. Jane Bigham, "Died," July 15, 1892, The Charlotte Democrat, masthead page.

8. Donna J. Johnson, (Cemetery Survey of) "Mulberry Presbyterian Church," Sept. 15, 1998, http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/mecklenburg/cemeteries/mulberry.txt (May 21, 2002).

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