Tag: Sophie McCluer

• 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