Robert Grandison Alexander

  General Notes:

The 1850 Federal Census for Harrison Co., Texas, page 88A records R. Alexander (9 - TX) living with his parents S. G. (37 - TN) and N. (32 - KY) Alexander and siblings W. F. (13 -Mississippi), J. (12 - TX), A. (6 - TX), L. (5 - TX), and L. (2 - TX). S. G. is a farmer who has real estate valued at $1,400. Nearby is William Hill Sr. and family whose daughter, Charlotte, will marry Robert Alexander in 1865.

The 1860 Federal Census for Harrison Co., Texas, Beat 2, Powellton P. O., August 1860, page 448B records Robert Alexander (18 - TX) living with his parents S. G. (47 - TN) and Nancy (40 - KY) Alexander and siblings Frank (22 - Mississippi), A. C. (16 - TX), Sarah F. (13 - TX), Luculus (12 - TX), M. F. (7 - TX), Silas (4 - TX), and Charles C. (1 - TX). S. G. is a farmer who has real estate valued at $2,280 and a personal estate valued at $2,600.

Robert married Charlotte Elizabeth Hill, daughter of William Spaulding Hill Sr. and Catherine Seegram, on 14 Dec 1865 in Harrison Co., Texas. (Charlotte Elizabeth Hill was born circa 1847 in Montgomery Co., Alabama, died on 20 Dec 1923 in Marshall, Harrison Co., Texas and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Marshall, Harrison Co., Texas.)