Record of the descendants of John Alexander

36 The (Descendants of
some land of John Harris, erected a house, and settled
in Harrisburg about 1783.
" Rosanna Boyd Hamilton lived a widow thirty-six
years, and was a member of the Presbyterian church for
sixty-four years. While other books and periodicals
received her attention, her Bible was her daily compan-
ion and chief treasure through life. Its delightful influ-
ence was illustrated in her active, charitable, cheerful
and exemplary life and happy death. In the hour of
departure she expressed her simple faith in Christ, by
repeating aloud :
" Nothing in my hand I bring,
Simply to thy cross I cling ;"
and gently passed from life April 17, 1872, aged eighty-
five years. She was short of stature, slightly formed,
brisk, healthy, uniform in temper, and retained in later
life so much of the freshness and vivacity of youth that
her society was much sought and greatly enjoyed by
youthful friends and visitors. Their children were :
1. Adam Boyd Hamilton, printer and prominent citi-
zen of Harrisburg ; married Miss Madine.
2. Alexander Hamilton died unmarried.
3. John Hamilton married ; is a widower
(1874) with children, in Texas.
4. Thomas Allen Hamilton lives (1875) in the old
homestead, in Harrisburg, unmarried.
5. Margaret Hamilton married Nelson McAlister, and
died, leaving no issue.
6. William Hamilton is a lawyer, living in Bellefonte,
Pa. ; unmarried (1875).
SECTION VI.
Mary Hamilton, born December 30, 1787 ; died un-
married.