Alexander and Lumpkin Families Collection 1854-1969

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Alexander and Lumpkin Families Collection 1854-1969

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/alexander_lumpkin.htm

Correspondence, photographs, genealogical and biographical material relating to Thomas Crawford Alexander and to the Alexander and Lumpkin families, presumably amassed by John S. Mayfield, a relative. Other surnames in the collection include Hale, Bain, Trulove, Pickett, Chamberlain and Robertson.

1 folder (SC)

eng,

Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6361012

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Alexander family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xr2317 (family)

Lumpkin, Simon Hiron.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qw8bbz (person)

Alexander, Thomas Crawford.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b42jxs (person)

Mayfield, John S., 1904-1983

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61c1zkh (person)

The Alexander and Lumpkin families were two prominent Texas pioneer families. Thomas Crawford Alexander, born in Tennessee, served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War and in the army of the Confederate States of American (CSA) during the American Civil War. According to Military History Online, Alexander "stood 5'7' tall with blue eyes, dark hair and dark complexion...[He] was a lawyer, teacher and devout churchman...[and] the oldest of 7 brothers." His daughter Laura married Simon ...

Mayfield, Earle Bradford, 1881-1964

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Lumpkin family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6722zhr (family)

Lumpkin, Laura Alexander, b. 1852

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qd4t72 (person)

Bain family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bx2dtq (family)