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- This Alexander family settled in Maryland, migrating into North Carolina about 1754. Ezra Alexander married the daughter of Ezekiel Polk. Their son, Eleazer (1763-1810), came to what is now Maury County where he and his wife, Margaret Carter, were given six hundred acres of land by her brother, Benjamin Carter, of South Carolina, a Revolutionary War soldier. This couple had a large family of eleven children.
Eleazer gave land for the Alexander Cemetery and was the first person found buried there in 1810. His son, Abdon I. Alexander, who married Eliza Eugenia Campbell, is also buried there as is Abdon's son, John Campbell Alexander (1824-1892), who married Mary Williams Sparkman.
Family Data Collection - Individual Records
Name: Eleazer Alexander
Parents: Ezra Alexander, Mary Polk
Birth Place: N, Mecklenburg, CO
Birth Date: 23 Nov 1763
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: Eleazer Alexander
Gender: Male
Birth Place: NC
Birth Year: 1763
Spouse Name: Margaret Carter
Spouse
Birth Place: NC
Spouse Birth Year: 1770
Number Pages: 1
1790 United States Federal Census
Name: Eleazer Alexander
County: Lancaster
State: South Carolina
Number of Slaves : 2
Number of Household Members: 2
Eleazer bought Land from Benjamin Carter, August 6, 1808:
Maury County Deed Abstract
Book A, Vol. 1, page 249
Deeded by Benjamin Carter
Deed - From Benjamin Carter to Eleazer Alexander - 9 Mar 1810:
Grantor: Benjamin Carter (signed Ben)
Grantee: Eleazer Alexander and wife Margaret
Consideration: $600 and other diverse good causes and considerations
"...I, Benjamin Carter, of the District of Kershaw in the State of South Carolina...beginning, being a part of a tract of 3,840 acres originally granted to me of the State of North Carolina in consideration of my military services the 14th day of March, 1786, which grant is recorded in the Secretary's Office in North Carolina and also in Davidson County Register's Office (state of Tennessee) in Book D, page 11, together with all rights, etc ... To have and to hold...their heirs and assigns forever, provided the heirs be the descendants of the aforesaid Margaret Alexander..."
Goodspeed, on page 904, states: "...Eleazer Alexander was born November 23, 1763, and was one of the early settlers of this county coming here as early as 1808 and settling on a tract of land given his wife's brother, Benjamin Carter, for services rendered in the Revolutionary War. He was also a neighbor and fast friend of Ezekial Polk, grandfather of James K. Polk..."
Burial record for EleazerAlexander:
Polk Family Cemetery (now at the James K. Polk Museum)
Alexander Eleazer b. 23 Nov 1763 Mecklenburg Co., NC - d. 8 Nov 1842, Mecklenburg Co., NC - son of Ezra & Mary Alexander
Age 45 years
"Of Blame is Seldom Left a Better Name"
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1763 - 1810 (46 years)