ALEXANDER, Lucretia “Cretia”
Date of death: 23 Jan 1897 – Needham, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 29, 1897,
Volume XXXVII Number 29
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
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Mrs. Lucretia Alexander, wife of Wash [William Washington] Alexander, died Saturday at her home in Needham. Funeral services were held Monday at Second Mt. Pleasant church, conducted by Rev. P. O. Duncan. Dudley Peek funeral director.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, Friday, January 29, 1897,
Volume XXXVII Number 29, page 6 column 2
FROM OVER THE COUNTY.
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NEEDHAM.
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Aunt Cretia Alexander, an aged mother, passed away at a late hour last Saturday, leaving a husband and three sons to mourn, besides her many friends.
Notes: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 3, referencing Book H-18, page 26, records that [No First Name] Alexander, a sixty-five-year-old [sic] white female, died 23 Jan 1897 in Indiana.
The 1850 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson County Indiana records twenty-eight-year-old, Kentucky-born Washington Alexander, his twenty-three-year-old, Kentucky-born wife Lucretia Alexander and their three-month-old, Indiana-born son James J. Alexander.
The 1860 US Federal Census for Clark, Johnson County, Indiana records thirty-seven-year-old, Kentucky-born Wm W. Alexander, his twenty-six-year-old [sic], Kentucky-born wife Lucretia Alexander and their three Indiana-born sons, eleven-year-old James, seven-year-old John and two-year-old Wm. Alexander.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson