Record of the descendants of John Alexander

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3. John Miller, bora August 1, 1842.
1. Rhoda Ann Miller married Elmer S. Fear, March
6,1868. Issue:
1. William M. Fear, born April 25, 1870 ; died
August 11, 1870.
2. Laura C. Fear, born July 26, 1871.
3. John Miller married Nancy Close, 1867. Issue:
1. Elliott Orr Close. 2. William John Miller. 3.
David Carroll Miller.
CHAPTER V.
THE FAMILY OF JAMES ALEXANDER, OF KISHACOQUILLAS.
James Alexander, the fifth child of James Alexander
and Rosa Reed was born Feb. 16, 1772. When only
nineteen years old, in 1792, the next year after his
father's death, he married Jane Adams, aged sixteen
years, and remained on the old homestead on Spring
Run, as farmer. He was a man of very large frame,
five feet eleven and one-half inches high, and of com-
manding presence. After middle age he became so
corpulent as to weigh 355 pounds, so that his neighbors
often distinguished him from his namesakes by the title
of " Sturdy Jamie."
In the prime of life he was fond of that most exciting
and dangerous of all English and American sports — the
Fox Hunt. It is difficult to say whether horse, rider,
or hounds enjoyed it the most. Mounted upon "Jolly,"
with two or three mounted neighbors, he sounded his
hunter's horn, which instantly brought around him at
least one dozen descendants of" Chaunter and Charmer"