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Alfred Beauchamp A.B. ALEXANDER ‎(I906)‎

Given Names: Alfred Beauchamp
Surname: ALEXANDER
Nickname: A.B.

Gender: Male Male

Birth: 25 May 1857

39 Letart Falls, Meigs County, Ohio, USA
Death: 22 December 1944 ‎(Age 87)‎

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Birth	25 May 1857 42 39 Letart Falls, Meigs County, Ohio, USA
Marriage	Sarah Katherine Kate FINNEY - 17 September 1879 ‎(Age 22)‎
Biographical Notes	Letart, Meigs County, Ohio, USA Note: Alfred Beauchamp Alexander was the youngest of five sons of Thomas and Caroline Alexander. He married Sarah Kate Finney ‎(daughter of Hannah Brooke and Rev. Ebenezer Finney, who pa stored the Letart Church)‎ on September 17, 1879. Being the youngest son, he was chosen to remain on the home farm to assist his father in both farming and flat boating. For many years they engaged in flat boating, leaving home in October with boats loaded with potatoes, corn and other produce. They returned in March or April. The produce was sold to settlers along the river banks, as they floated down the Mississippi. They also owned for a time a cotton steamer in the Baton Rouge vicinity and hauled bales of cotton from the plantations to the markets. Their last flatboat left Letart Falls in October 1905, the business having been destroyed by the coming of the railroad into the rural southland.
Biographical Notes	Letart, Meigs County, Ohio, USA Note: 1900: Alfred, 43, and Sarah, 41, have four children at home: Carl 19, Paul 14, Dora 12 and Ruth 5. Alfred is a farmer. The children ‎(all but little Ruth)‎ are at school. Sarah has had four children, all of whom were living. Sarah was born in Ohio, as was her mother; but her father was born in Pennsylvania. 1910: A.B. is 52 and Sarah is 49. Of their children, only Ruth, now 14, is at home.
Death	22 December 1944 ‎(Age 87)‎
Burial	Letart Falls Cemetery, Meigs County, Ohio, USA
Last Change	3 December 2007 - 13:48

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Parents Family (F348)
Father	Capt. Thomas A. ALEXANDER 1814 - 1907
Mother	Caroline BURNS 1818 - 1906
Sister	Georgeanna Victoria ALEXANDER 1839 - 1907
Sister	Julia Elizabeth ALEXANDER 1841 -
Brother	Capt. William Burns ALEXANDER 1842 - 1908
Sister	Susan Catherine ALEXANDER 1845 - 1916
Brother	Henry Moses ALEXANDER 1846 - 1931
Brother	Silas Wright ALEXANDER 1848 - 1916
Brother	John Thomas ALEXANDER 1850 - 1917
Sister	Emma Embury ALEXANDER 1852 - 1907
Sister	Mary Regina ALEXANDER 1855 -
	Alfred Beauchamp A.B. ALEXANDER 1857 - 1944
Sister	Fannie Bell ALEXANDER 1859 -

Immediate Family (F476)
Wife	Sarah Katherine Kate FINNEY 1858 - 1944
Son	Carl Brown ALEXANDER 1880 - 1967
Son	Paul Burns ALEXANDER 1886 -
Daughter	Dora Brook ALEXANDER 1887 -
Daughter	Ruth Beauchamp ALEXANDER 1895 -

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Biographical Notes	Alfred Beauchamp Alexander was the youngest of five sons of Thomas and Caroline Alexander. He married Sarah Kate Finney ‎(daughter of Hannah Brooke and Rev. Ebenezer Finney, who pa stored the Letart Church)‎ on September 17, 1879. Being the youngest son, he was chosen to remain on the home farm to assist his father in both farming and flat boating. For many years they engaged in flat boating, leaving home in October with boats loaded with potatoes, corn and other produce. They returned in March or April. The produce was sold to settlers along the river banks, as they floated down the Mississippi. They also owned for a time a cotton steamer in the Baton Rouge vicinity and hauled bales of cotton from the plantations to the markets. Their last flatboat left Letart Falls in October 1905, the business having been destroyed by the coming of the railroad into the rural southland.
Biographical Notes	1900: Alfred, 43, and Sarah, 41, have four children at home: Carl 19, Paul 14, Dora 12 and Ruth 5. Alfred is a farmer. The children ‎(all but little Ruth)‎ are at school. Sarah has had four children, all of whom were living. Sarah was born in Ohio, as was her mother; but her father was born in Pennsylvania. 1910: A.B. is 52 and Sarah is 49. Of their children, only Ruth, now 14, is at home.