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- FULTON COUNTY INDIANA, OBITUARIES, 1914, Rochester Sentinel:
Isaac M. ALEXANDER, a member of the G.A.R. and a long time resident of this county, died Monday evening at his home on east Ninth street. For several years Mr. Alexander has been in feeble health and death came as a relief to him at the age o7as.
Mr. Alexander was well known over this county and for years engaged in the retail liquor business in this city. He moved here with his father, Henry ALEXANDER, in 1846. After living on a farm until after the war he moved to Rochester. May 18, 18 56, he was married to Rebecca CARR. Three children were born to this union, two of whom are living, Mrs. Belle THALMANN and Mrs. Ida SOUTHARD. Ilda SMITH, a daughter, is dead. Besides his two children, Mr. Alexander practically raised three gran dsons and also the near relatives, William DEWITT, Wesley DWEITT and Omar ALEXANDER. He was a good family man and took great pride in his children and grandchildren, and his two great-grandchildren.
In 1864 Mr. Alexander enlisted in Company "B" 142 Indiana Volunteers. After following Hood into the South, and after the close of the war, he was mustered out July 14, 1865. For years he has been a member of the local post. He was a charter memb er of the local organization, the Christian Science church in which he was a devoted believer.
The funeral will be held at the house Thursday afternoon at two o'clock. R. Stanhope EASTERDAY, of the SecondChristian Scence church of Indianapolis, will have charge of the funeral services.
I.H. ALEXANDER, of Rochester, was born in Cass County, Ind., Sept. 2, 1836. He was reared to the duties of the farm in that and Fulton County. Henry Alexander, his father, was born at Stone River, Tenn., Nov. 10, 1806. He went to Kentucky whe n a boy and on to Ohio and was married in that state in Medina County to Mary Hall, whose father, Amos Hall was born in North Carolina, and died in Ohio. Henry Alexander was a son of Amos Alexander, a New Light preacher, who was born in Virginia , emigrated to Tennessee, thence to Kentucky and died in this state in 1846, aged sixty years. Henry Alexander left Cass County, Ind., early in the 40's and went to Cedar County, Mo., expecting to make that state his future home, but it was to o new, Indians were too numerous and sickness and other ills combined drove him back to Indiana again in six years. He came into Rochester just as the old court house was being finished. May 18, 1856, he subject of this sketch married in Fulto n County Daniel Carr's daughter, Rebecca, from Jay County, Ind., but originally from Coshocton County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander's children are Mrs. Ida Southard, Susan B., married A. Thallman; Hilda, deceased, married David Smith, and left o ne child, Gladys. In 1864 Mr. Alexander enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Forty-second Indiana volunteers. Capt. Jim Thompson was his captain. He was mustered into service at Indianapolis and was sent to Nashville and caught Hood there. Hi s regiment remained in that post till the surrender of Lee, when it was mustered out and was discharged at Indianapolis July 14, 1865. Mr. Alexander returned to this county and farmed three years. He then went to Tyner City and was engaged in th e hotel business for seven years. Twenty-one years ago he engaged in the retail liquor business in Rochester. He has prospered and has invested some of his surplus in Fulton County real estate. He owns a farm of 117 acres, a comfortable home i n Rochester, and a brick business block on the south side of the square in Rochester. He is a republican in politics.
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