Rev Thomas Alexander

Reverend Thomas Alexander 1799 (April 8) - born near Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky 1818-1821 - educated at Princeton Theological Seminary 1824 (May 8) - ordained by the South Alabama Presbytery 1824-1837 - pastor, Valley Creek Church and Mt. Pleasant

    Church, Selma, Alabama 1838-1847 - Vincennes, Indiana 1847-1850 - stated supply pastor, Marion and Fairview, 

    Indiana 1852-1854 - stated supply pastor, First Church, 

    Bloomington, Indiana 1854-1858 - home missionary and stated supply pastor,     

    Texas 1855 (April 20) - the Presbytery of Central Texas appointed 

    the Reverend Thomas Alexander to serve on a committee 

    with the Reverend John M. McChord and the Reverend 

    Samuel C. Taylor to organize a church in Waco Village. 

    The congregation was called the First Presbyterian 

    Church of McLennan County 1855 – The Reverend Thomas Alexander purchased land 

    and built a home twelve miles from Waco Village. 1857 - stated supply pastor, Oak Island, Freestone County, 

    Texas 1858 - 1864 - installed as pastor, Oak Island Church, Texas 1864 (March 26) - died in Cotton Gin, Freestone County, 

    Texas, and buried in Oak Island Presbyterian Church 

    Cemetery, Freestone County. Broken grave marker 2018 (June 26) – a grave marker was placed at Oak Island 

    Presbyterian Church Cemetery for the three organizing 

    ministers of First Presbyterian Church, Waco, Texas

From: The Organizing Ministers, First Presbyterian Church,

    Waco, Texas, compiled by T. Bradford Willis, DDS, church 

    historian, 2018. Sources: Conger, Roger Norman. 1955. The First Presbyterian Church 

    of Waco, Texas: a memorial history, 1855-1955. Presbyterian Church in the U.S., and E. C. Scott. 1942. 

    Ministerial directory of the Presbyterian Church, United 

    States, 1861-1941. Austin, Tex: Press of Von Boeckmann-

    Jones Co. “Rev. Thomas Alexander,” Find A Grave Memorial 

    (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19910446). Tenney, Leonard. 1895. History of the Presbytery of Central 

    Texas. Austin: E. Von Boeckmann.* Reference: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19910446/thomas-alexander Find A Grave Memorial] - [https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 SmartCopy]: ''Aug 14 2020, 16:32:00 UTC''