Descendants of Telemacus & Hannah Smith Alexander:

James Wallace Alexander, m. Margaret L. Reid

James Wallace Alexander was born September 24, 1824 in North Carolina.¹ His parents probably named him after the minister of Providence Presbyterian Church who was his father's teacher. He was a farmer and was listed as head of household at age 25 with his siblings in the 1850 census.² He was also appointed as legal guardian of his three youngest siblings.³ He married Margaret L. Reid, with a marriage bond dated December 17, 1850.⁴ They had children named Martha Jane, born in 1853, and Thomas Morgan, born in 1855.⁵

James Wallace served in the 5th Regiment, N.C. Cavalry, also known as the 63rd Regiment of North Carolina State Troops, in the Civil War. Like his brothers John Smith and William, he was a member of Company F.⁶ He died August 3, 1863 in Charlottesville, Virginia, of "febris typhoid."⁷ On February 8, 1864, the Sharon Church elders voted to pay tuition for one year for the education of his children and another child of a deceased soldier.⁸

Margaret died Feb 8, 1906 and was buried at Sharon Presbyterian Church.⁹ The 1903 Queen Anne-style farmhouse of James Wallace's son, Thomas Morgan Alexander, was designated as historically significant by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission.¹⁰ More information on this branch of Telemacus's family can be found by clicking on Thomas's name.

Footnotes:

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

2. Stafford, cited above, p. 81; Population Schedule of the Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County (Washington: National Archives and Record Service) p.80, family #1303.

3. Telemachus Alexander, Estate Records 1762-1957, C.R. 065.508.9, (Raleigh: North Carolina Dept. of Archives and History).

4. Stafford, cited above, p. 81; Microfilm Marriage Bond Abstracts pre-1868, Mecklenburg County, N.C., Vol. 1, A-L, (Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1942) p. 5.

5. Stafford, cited above, p. 81.; Population Schedule of the Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, Roll 906, North Carolina, Vol. 11, Mecklenburg County (Washington: National Archives and Record Service, 1967) Charlotte PO, Eastern Division Mecklenburg, family #353. (J. W. Alexander, 36, farmer, real estate $2200, personal estate $4000; wife Margaret, 31; daughter Martha, 7; son Thos., 5.)

6. Manarin, Louis H. North Carolina Troops: 1861-1865 A Roster. Vol. II Cavalry, (Raleigh: North Carolina State Dept of Archives and History, 1968) pp. 367-372, pp. 412-414.

7. Microfilmed Confederate Military and Pension Records in the North Carolina State Dept. of Archives and History, Raleigh, N.C.; Sharon Church Records, cited above, p. 105; Manarin, cited above, p. 414.

8. Records of Sharon Presbyterian Church, 1830-1960, Reel HF 202, (Presbyterian Historical Society, Montreat, N.C.: 1969), p. 95.

9. Gravestone at Sharon Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, NC.

10. Mary Beth Gatza, "Thomas Alexander House," November 19, 1997, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission, http://www.cmhpf.org/S&RR/t-alexander.html (April 28, 2002)

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