Record of the descendants of John Alexander

194 5T^ (Descendants of
Crawford, Mary McCamish, and unmarried daughters
Martha and Margaret. Providing for his sister Mar-
garet, he left the bulk of his real estate and personal
property to his widow for life, to be equally divided
among his daughters at her death.
Tradition says that his only son John was intemper-
ate, and died unmarried near Pittsburg.
1. His eldest daughter Nancy was born near Cham-
bersburg, April 4, 1772, and married Robert Chambers,
June 11, 1799, and removed with her husband to Ken
tucky in the year 1800.
She resided in Fayette Co., Ky., until the death of
her husband in 1830. She had no children, but Mr.
Chambers had been previously married and had two
sons, James and Arthur, to whom she proved the best
of mothers. After her husband's death, she lived with
Arthur until his death in 1847, when she removed to
live with Arthur's daughter, Mrs. Nancy A. Stockwell,
in Charlestown, Ind., opposite to Louisville, Ky., where
she died July 30, 1851, aged 79 years, and was buried
in the Charlestown Cemetery.
During all her life in Kentucky, she was an exem-
plary Christian and a member of the Presbyterian
Church.
The above facts concerning her are from Mrs. Nancy
Alexander Stockwell, who was called after her, and who
speaks affectionately of her as her grandmother. Mrs.
Nancy A. Chambers had for many years before her
death, no correspondence with her sisters in Pennsyl-
vania, and knew nothing of their descendants. Cor-
respondence with several intelligent citizens of Frank-
lin Co. has elicited no information concerning them.