Susan F. Watlington (b. June 9, 1858, on the Watlington farm near Big Springs) was the fifth daughter of William T. and Lizzie Ozier Watlington. In 1878 she married a young medical doctor who was working in Madison County at the time, Andrew J. Alexander, (b. Dec. 23, 1955, near Savannah, Hardin Co., Tenn.). Her marriage near Pinson was carefully recorded in her family Bible along with births, and marriages of their five children. In 1966, this Bible was in possession of Mrs. Gene Baker of Fulton.
Since the Alexanders moved to Jackson, Newbern, Mayfield and Fulton, Kentucky, the Watlington relatives of the next generation had little knowledge of them except Susie's two brothers who also moved to Dyer Co., Tenn. about this time. Both William John (also known as John William) and Joseph Franklin probably moved to Newbern because their sister lived there. William John found work with the railroad and may have lived near them at Fulton later. The Alexanders had not disappeared, they simply had relocated and distances had disconnected them from the relatives around Pinson.
Dr. Alexander was practicing before his marriage in 1878 but is reported to have studied and graduated from Memphis Hospital Medical College in 1892. Of their five children the two sons are remembered to have become a teacher and a medical doctor but not by name. Evidently the family was quite prominent around Mayfield and Fulton but no research has been done there. Dr. Alexander died April 6, 1928. Their children were:
This data was secured through the kindness of
Mrs. C. C. Jones
, August, 1975.