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.
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.
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