George Cyrus Alexander

When George Cyrus Alexander was born on January 4, 1869, in Mendocino, California, his father, Cyrus, was 63 and his mother, Maria, was 38. He married Nellie Maude Sarginsson on May 3, 1900. They had two children during their marriage. He died on February 15, 1941, in Sonoma, California, at the age of 72, and was buried there.

Earlier that year Cyrus and Rufina's last son, George, had been born.  His two surviving brothers, Thomas and Joseph, were just five and fifteen years old. 

In later years two of those surviving sons, George and Thomas, stayed on at the original homestead. Badly damaged in the 1906 earthquake, the original Alexander adobe was eventually replaced with another structure. The walls of one of the original adobe outbuildings still remain on the site. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wetzel restored and remodeled it after they purchased the homestead from Cyrus' descendants in the 1960's. Their son and daughter, Hank Wetzel and Kate Murphy, now run Alexander Valley Vineyards and Winery.

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