My fourth cousin 3 times removed.
Born: 3 Jan. 1808, Powhatan Co., VA. 1
Parents: BENJAMIN BOATWRIGHT AND ELIZABETH BLACKBURN
Married: unknown.
Death: 21 Jan. 1885. 1
Burial: Boatwright Burial Ground, Garrard Co., KY. 1
Notes:
Alexander lived on Walnut-Meadow Creek just above the junction of Meadow Creek and Paint Lick Creek, near Paint Lick, KY. He was a Baptist Minister. 1
Listed in the 1840 Federal Census, Eastern Division, Madison, KY, age 30-40, with two males ages 15-20 and 20-30, five females ages less than 5, 5-10, 20-30, 40-50, and 60-70 (the latter probably his mother), and three male and three female slaves; thre persons in the household were engaged in agriculture.
Listed as a farmer living in his mother's household in the 1850 Federal Census, District 1, Madison, KY (indexed as Badtright).
Listed as a farmer in the 1860 Federal Census, Division 1, Madison, KY.
Listed in the household of his daughter Elizabeth Todd in the 1880 Federal Census, Glade, Madison, KY (indexed as A. A. Boatwright).
Spouse: MARTHA ELIZABETH JOPLIN b. 6 Jan. 1811 d. 25 Jan. 1840, Paint Lick, KY. 1
CHILDREN OF ALEXANDER ALLEN BOATWRIGHT AND MARTHA ELIZABETH JOPLIN:
(my fifth cousin twice removed)
ELIZABETH ANN BOATWRIGHT b. 25 Dec. 1839, KY d. 17 April 1920, Gerrard Co., KY.
Sources:
1. "Historical Southern Families," Volume XI, Mrs. John Bennett Boddie, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1967.
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