Tag: James Alexander

• A Woman in the Shadow

  

  Louisa was born around 1810 to a woman enslaved by John McCluer, a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian elder in Rockbridge County, Virginia, who was also her father. When McCluer’s daughter Nancy married James Alexander in 1820, Louisa would meet Alexander’s enslaved man named Archer Alexander. Louisa and Archer would marry …

  Dorris Keeven-Franke

  March 9, 2023

  Freedom

  Archer Alexander, Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum, James Alexander, James Naylor, John McCluer, Louisa Alexander, Muhammad Ali, Richard Pitman, Sophie McCluer, St. Peters UCC, Wesley Alexander, William Campbell, William Greenleaf Eliot

• A son named James

  

  This is the story of two men named James Alexander, one white, one black. One was the owner of Archer Alexander, one was his son. This son lived and died in St. Charles County.

  Dorris Keeven-Franke

  November 22, 2021

  ArcherAlexander

  Archer Alexander, Caroline Callaway, Dorris Keeven-Franke, Emancipation Monument, Harriet Yates, James Alexander, William Campbell