This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: schoedi Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.mcconnell/1451.3.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Luckily I receive an email when someone posts a comment. Please reply to me at JudyLehm@sbcglobal.net. These are notes that I have about Alexander, son of William: p. 59, end note: Alexander McConnell died intestate in Iredell before Aug. 21, 1798 when Catherine McConnell and Burgess Gaither were granted letters of administration under 500-pound bond. His heirs were Walter, Robert, William, Elizabeth, John and Polly McConnell and his daughter Anna Johnson, wife of Jeremiah Johnson (Lois M.P. Schneider, Inventory of Estate Papers of Iredell Co., NC, 1788-1915). An inventory of his estate showed that he was a slaveholder. William originally bought in 1762 the land that lay at the exact center of Salisbury where he opened a tavern in his home. He bought and sold numberous other properties before his death. Before his death he bought the apparently unregistered stake of Robert Bell on what was known as Bell's Branch of Grant's Creek in what later became Iredell Co. Alexander is shown as a taxpayer there in 1772 at age 16 after his father's death. David Woodson, a Salisbury silversmith and land speculator, claimed Williams old stake that he bought from Robert Bell in 1788 on behalf of children Esther and John. Alexander, when the land office reopened in 1778, already had improved land in Iredell, and he claimed further land on Little Dutchman's Creek. These lands were scattered north from Bell's Branch (also known as Todd's Branch) through Rock, Hunting and Little Dutchmans' Creek. Descendants of Alexander McConnell 1 Alexander McConnell b: Abt. 1755 in Cumberland Pennsylvania d: 09 Aug 1798 .. Catherine Boyd b: 1761 in Maury Co Tennessee d: 1826 ....... 2 Ann McConnell b: 1783 ............ Jeremiah Johnson ....... *2nd Husband of Ann McConnell: ............ James Bell ....... 2 Robert Boyd McConnell b: 22 Mar 1787 d: 30 Mar 1855 ............ Margaret Rosborough ................. 3 Howard Marion McConnell ....... 2 William Cole McConnell b: 1789 ............ Elizabeth Bone b: 1795 d: Bef. 1872 ................. 3 John Boyd McConnell b: 1825 d: 09 Mar 1911 ..................... Priscilla Ann Gibson b: 1829 ................. 3 Elizabeth McConnell b: 1827 ..................... Joseph M Duggar ................. 3 William Alexander McConnell b: 1830 in Maury Co Tennessee d: Mar 1908 in Stone Co Missouri ..................... Sylvia Elizabeth Sloan ........................... 4 Mahala Elizabeth McConnell ........................... 4 John McConnell ................. *2nd Wife of William Alexander McConnell: ..................... Betty Forrester Brown ................. 3 Curtis Bone McConnell b: 1832 ..................... Isabel Gardenhire ................. 3 Critchfield Bone McConnell b: 1838 ....... 2 Elizabeth McConnell b: Abt. 1793 d: Bef. 1821 ....... 2 John M McConnell b: 29 Aug 1794 d: 06 May 1878 ............ Lucinda McCrary b: 07 Jul 1800 d: 15 Mar 1860 ....... 2 Mary Ann McConnell b: 1796 d: Sep 1827 ....... 2 Walter I . McConnell b: Abt. 1784 d: 11 Mar 1854 ............ Mary Ann Elizabeth Parker b: Abt. 1787 d: Jan 1860 ................. 3 Mary Elizabeth McConnell b: Abt. 1810 ..................... Samuel M Chaffin ................. 3 Alexander McConnell b: Abt. 1814 ..................... Mary D Wood b: 1814 d: 1882 ........................... 4 Eliza Jane McConnell b: Abt. 1837 ............................... John L Keltner b: Abt. 1832 ........................... 4 Elizabeth F McConnell b: Abt. 1843 ............................... Wiley Blount Faught, Jr. ........................... 4 Martha F. McConnell b: 1844 d: 1913 ............................... Martin L Edwards ........................... *2nd Husband of Martha F. McConnell: ............................... Andrew A Pendleton ........................... 4 G William C McConnell b: 1846 ........................... 4 George Washington McConnell b: 1847 ........................... 4 John A McConnell b: 1849 ................. 3 Permelia McConnell b: 1816 ................. 3 William Shakespeare McConnell b: 1823 d: 1889 ..................... Caroline Locke ................. 3 Catherine Jane McConnell b: Abt. 1827 ..................... George W Butler b: Abt. 1832 ................. 3 John Walter McConnell b: 14 Jul 1829 in Maury Co Tennessee d: 31 Oct 1907 in Christian Co Missouri ..................... Matilda D Edwards b: Abt. 1838 in Maury Co Tennessee d: Abt. 1873 in Christian Co Missouri ........................... 4 James Wright McConnell b: 1855 d: 1936 ............................... Mary Emily McCafferty ..................................... 5 John W McConnell, Jr b: 1879 ..................................... 5 Cora McConnell b: 1884 ..................................... 5 Lucy McConnell b: 1886 ..................................... 5 Artie McConnell b: 1888 ..................................... 5 Seymore McConnell b: 1890 ..................................... 5 Myrtle McConnell b: 1893 ..................................... 5 Dora E McConnell b: 1895 ..................................... 5 Hobart McConnell b: 1898 ..................................... 5 Wilbern McConnell b: Bef. 1906 ........................... 4 Mary V McConnell b: 1856 ........................... 4 John Walter McConnell, Jr b: 1858 ........................... 4 Frances Emma McConnell b: 02 Feb 1865 d: 17 Mar 1884 ............................... Benjamin Franklin McCafferty ........................... 4 William Alexander McConnell b: 11 Mar 1867 d: 05 May 1953 ............................... Nannie P Melvin ........................... *2nd Wife of William Alexander McConnell: ............................... Mary Bell Elizabeth Ray ..................................... 5 Henry Burl McConnell b: 01 Mar 1905 ............................................... 6 Burl Russell McConnell b: 21 Oct 1929 ......................................................... 7 Randy Lee McConnell b: 03 Jul 1952 ........................... *3rd Wife of William Alexander McConnell: ............................... Grace ........................... 4 Joseph Franklin McConnell b: 07 Apr 1871 ............................... Mary Slay ................. *2nd Wife of John Walter McConnell: ..................... Rebecca Jane Pope ........................... 4 Synthia Ann McConnell b: 19 May 1875 d: 27 Dec 1952 ............................... John Thomas Beverage ........................... 4 Robert Lee McConnell b: 01 Oct 1878 d: 25 May 1965 ............................... Jane Maynard Faught ........................... 4 Edward Scott McConnell b: Oct 1886 d: 14 Oct 1933 ........................... 4 Benjamin Harrison McConnell b: Dec 1888 d: 1966 ................. 3 James Holland McConnell b: 1831 ..................... Mary Emily McCafferty b: 1831 d: 1876 ........................... 4 John Green McConnell ............................... Cosby Hunt Maynard ..................................... 5 Charles Leonard McConnell ......................................... Christy Evelyna Harris ............................................... 6 Leornard Udel McConnell ................................................... Thelma Irene Gallagher ......................................................... 7 Guy McConnell ............................................................. Laura L Dixon ................. 3 Mary Ann McConnell b: 1833 d: 1891 ..................... 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