The first preacher's name was Fogg. He came in 1816. Candidates for baptism by emergence were Mr and Mrs. Samuel Brown, Jacob Stevens, and Miss Ann Lilly. The first marriage in town was between Thomas Bean and Mary Bailey, who later became Mrs. R. K. Thistlewood according to the newspaper clipping. There still is a small house that is referred to as the Thistlewood house. Pliney Frost said that he had pictures of three generations of the Thistlewood family. He also said, "By way of identification, Mary Bailey and Thomas Bean were the parents of Mary Ann Frost who was Steve Frost's wife, mother of Thomas B. and Augustus W.,Steven D., Horace E., Harry E." Augustus W. was Augustus Wellington Frost. Other early settlers on Breakneck Hill were the McNally family. Some more recent McNally family members in the area were George McNally whom Pliney Frost said was a police officer in Calais at one time. Jane Dudley said he was a judge in Calais. He was born on Breakneck Hill. Another McNally was May, wife of George Brown. Ralph Brown who worked in the A&P store for years was her son. Jane Dudley asked if he were the manager, and Pliney said, "No, he always worked behind the coffee counter. I don't know, they - when he first went to work for the A&P Company, they had four stores in Calais. . . . But, he worked in the one that was on Washington Street and he could have been the manager there, I don't know. Then when they combined them in a super market - why they took the employees they could use, or wanted to use, and took them down there. He, well as long as they ground their own coffee right there in the A&P, that's where he worked, behind the coffee counter." The discussion continued about the old cellar holes on Breakneck Hill and whether one was a school house. Pliney Frost said that Annaniah Bohanon had said the school house was on Burnt Barn Hill. "According to Harold Dwelley Burnt Barn Hill is that hill that you go up after you go by Elbridge's - you go up through and go up over the hill and then you dip down over and come to that bog that is on your left there, you know. If I understood Harold correctly to say that the foundation of where the school house was - was in on - in on the side of the road there where Everett (Dwelley) owns - on Everett's property." Pliney Frost suggested that they might find the McNally place on the 1887 Atlas. They all looked at the map and mentioned the various families who owned property on Breakneck Hill in 1887: J. Granger, Brown, Carter, Berry, and McLean. Jane Dudley said that the map in the Atlas matched the map she had made when they explored the old foundations on Breakneck Hill. What was later the Foley place was once part of the Granger Estate. The group looked at the 1895 Alexander Directory. Pliney Frost said, "Here's a list of the people that lived on Breakneck in 1895. Carlow, Aaron, Ellen, Mary, and Maud. The next one is Carter, James, Amie, William, Lawrence, and Sarah. Keene, Robert, Ella and Clara." An unknown woman said the Keenes would be related to Edith Hatfield, because she was a Keene before she was married. Pliney Frost then said that Edith Hatfield was related to him, and then continued listing people who lived on Breakneck Hill in 1895. "Vining, Frederick, Edith, Bertha, Flora. Now, Flora was Vernon Cousin's wife. You remember Vernon." The unknown woman said, "Flora Perkins and Edith were own cousins." Pliney Frost said, "Luke and Martha Stephenson lived where the house burnt." Where the Hatfield place used to be was originally Stephenson's according to Pliney Frost. One of the women said the property had also belonged to a Dwelley family, and that Luke Stephenson's place used to be where Doris Flood in now, but this is a new house because the old house burned. Pliney Frost said that Luke Stephenson was married June 29, 1850. The ceremony was performed by William Spring. This information came from Pliney Frost's collection of newspaper clippings. Jedediah Dwelly married a Stephenson. (This was Jedediah Dwelly, born in 1800 and son of another Jedediah Dwelly, and Caroline C. Stephenson, daughter of Jesse Stephenson and Elizabeth Lilley.) The Stephenson farm was settled in 1816. There was a grist mill in 1820. The mill burned about 1960. A woman said that it had been a saw mill first, and later a grist mill, and that at one time it had employed 16 people with a day crew and a night crew. The original saw mill was built in 1816, nine years before Alexander was incorporated. In 1900 Alexander had a population of about 500 people, a larger population than Baileyville. They discussed Spring Hill. Pliney Frost said, "I'm not absolutely certain of it, but I believe that William Spring lived about where Landry's house is now. There's an old cellar there. It might be when he built his new house he built right on the old cellar. I'm not sure, but I remember when I was quite young that there was an old house attached to George Berry's barn and I assume that was the old Spring house, but I'm not sure. I'm just assuming it." Pliney Frost had an old picture of the Alexander Methodist Episcopal Church which was built in 1866 and completed January 11, 1869. They raised money to pay for the church by selling pews. You could buy your own pew together with the ground on which it stood. Thomas Frost bought one of the pews. (They were looking at an original deed for one of the pews that Pliney Frost had. It was not clear but may have been for the pew bought by Thomas Frost.) One of Donald Frost's grandfathers was a minister of the church. Mr. Townsend donated the land for the church. The Townsend house is the two story house across from the Grange Hall. Ruth (Ferguson) Dwelley looked at the picture and said, "This is the way it looked when I came here. I taught Sunday School there in 1931. I taught Elbridge MacArthur. (This is likely to have been Elbridge M., brother of Ethel M. Wallace.) Someone asked Pliney Frost about attending Sunday School, and he replied, "I attended church, but I never went to Sunday School if I could get away with it. I hated school with a passion." Children who attended Sunday School in Alexander in the 1930s included Noland Perkins' sons, Francis and Maruice. Ellwood ?, who had been a member of the Sunday School visited one of the women at the meeting a short time before.