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Nancy Agnes "Annie" Alexander (McCall)

Also Known As: "Ann", "Agnes", "Nancy"
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Birthplace: Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: May 26, 1826 (77-78)
Rutherford, North Carolina, United States
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Daughter of Capt. James C. McCall, Sr. and Janet McCall
Wife of Col Elias Alexander, Jr.
Mother of Maj. Francis R. Alexander; Thomas Alexander; Alston Alexander; Anna Camp; Elizabeth Betsey Alexander and 8 others
Sister of Col. James Mitchell McCall; Colonel Hugh McCall; Rachel McCall; William McCall; Rev. Thomas H. McCall and 3 others

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About Nancy Agnes "Annie" Alexander

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Agnes McCall, daughter of James McCall and Janet Harris McCall, was born in Pennsylva­nia in 1748. She was married about 1768 to Elias Alexander, a Revolutionary colonel from Maryland who served under Gen. Nathaniel Greene, according to "DAR Magazine," Volume 41. He died in North Carolina in 1818, and she died in 1826.

From: "History of Old Tryon and Rutherford Counties, North Carolina,1730-1936", By Clarence W. Griffin, Asheville, Nc.:
Pub: The Miller Printing Company, 1937
Text, Page 170: "Senator Elias Alexander III, was a son of Elias Alexander, II, who was born in Maryland in 1746. Elias Alexander I, lived in Maryland and died there in 1747. His wife was Ann Taylor, who died in Mecklenburg Co., Nc., in 1800.

Elias Alexander II migrated to Mecklenburg Co. with other Alexanders, and settled in the Sugaw Creek settlement, a few miles north of Charlotte. He later removed to Rutherford Co., and was a valiant soldier in the Revolution, participating in the battles at Kings Mountain and Guilford Court House. His wife, Agnes (McCall) Alexander, died in Rutherford Co. in 1826 and Col. Elias Alexander died May 13, 1818. They had eleven children:
1) Francis Alexander (1778-1852), many years county surveyor ofRutherford Co. His daughter, Jane McBee, married Francis S. Coxe of Philadelphia, April 24, 1823. They were the parents of the late Frank Coxe of Asheville. Margaret Rebecca, another daughter of Francis Alexander, married Rev. Campbell Smith of the South Carolina Methodist Conference.
2) Major Ross Alexander, Sr., son of Elias, II, was thrown from a muleand killed July 6, 1849, near Hazelhurst Farm, three miles south ofForest City. A son (of Ross Alexander, Sr.), Ross Alexander, Jr.,married Charlotte Hill and they were parents of the late J. F.Alexander, Forest City lumberman, businessman, textile manufaccturer and Assemblyman, and Hon. A. C. Alexander, of Georgia. (Page 375) Jacob F. Alexander was born January 11, 1859, near Forest City, a son of Major Ross and Charlotte (Hill) Alexander
3) Anna married Stephen Camp.
4) Jane married Verdry McBee, of Lincolnton.
5)Margaret married Col. David Reinhardt.
6) Patsy Blanton married Jacob Fisher.
7) William Alexander died 1821.
8) Elias Alexander III, son of Elias II, was State Sentor in 1832. He was living in Greenville, SC, in1875.
9) James Taylor Alexander.
10 and 11) Thomas and Alston Alexander both died young

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Nancy Agnes "Annie" Alexander's Timeline

1748
1748
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
1772
March 11, 1772
Green River Plantation, Rutherford County, NC
1774
1774
Rutherford County, North Carolina
1776
1776
Rutherford County, North Carolina
1777
1777
Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States
1780
February 29, 1780
Rutherford County, NC, United States
1780
North Carolina
1783
May 1, 1783
Mecklenburg County, NC, United States
1787
March 1, 1787
Cecil County, Maryland