Louisa

  • LOUISA

    LOUISA

    …and I send yourself my best Love, I am your affectionate wife, wrote Louisa Alexander to her husband Archer Alexander in November 16, 1863

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  • MUHAMMAD ALI’S GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER

    Archer Alexander is the great-great-great grandfather of Muhammad Ali.

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  • September 7,  1829 – Twelfth Entry

    7 September 1829…crossed the river in the horse boat. Our party now consists of fifty five persons, 20 horses, 10 dogs and 4 cows. One of our carriage horses had become very lame in Charleston and we had to leave it with Mr. Calhoun…

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  • January 1863

    January 1863

    On a frigid January night in ‘63, nightfall came just about dinnertime. Under the cloak of darkness, several area secesh men met in the backroom of James Naylor’s store, just north of Dardenne Creek on Boone’s Lick Road. Missouri winters can be brutal, and the windswept prairie was especially cold and windy that year. Like…

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  • Sunday visits

    Sunday visits

    Archer’s wife was Louisa, property of Nancy McCluer, James Alexander’s wife. James and Nancy Alexander lived together with their four children in their cabin which was on the Boone’s Lick Road.

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