This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4Yk.2ACIB/1094.2 Message Board Post: My family is from Tennessee.I have not heard the name Alexander used in our family, but Benjamin is used throughout the Hyde family,back in the 1850's in Tenn. It does seem like I remember seeing a list of kids with the name Al on it.But I think that would have been in the late 1800's.