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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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The gravestone for William B. Alexander, in Machpelah Cemetery, Lexington, MO., includes the following inscription: "Whose life was passed in deeds of love and benevolence to Mankind".
Dr. Charles Alexander was killed during the Civil War at Port Royal, MS.
William Alexander died in infancy.
Dr. William Henry Alexander married Claretto Rejo of South America, where he practiced, and had five daughters. He died suddenly of pneumonia in San Juan, Argentina.
Augustine Fitzhugh Alexander Dr.
"The members of the legal profession in Lexington, (Missouri), the county seat of Lafayette Co., are numerous, and among the best known is the gentleman who is the subject of this sketch. Though a native of Virginia, he has been a resident of Missouri nearly the whole of his lifetime. When quite young his father, William B. Alexander, removed from Virginia, where his progenitors had resided ever since the early Colonial period of the state, and settled with his family in Saline County, MO.
Mr. Alexander is a graduate of the Masonic College at Lexington, and was admitted to the Bar in 1862, and has practiced his profession in that place ever since. He is in the prime of his life, is one of the brightest mathematicians of the state, and, possessing a fine classical education, has always been a student of history and the law, and is a man of sterling integrity. Mr. Alexander has never been an office-holder, but has proved himself an able counselor and successful practitioner, a profound student of the law, a strong advocate of natural justice and a zealous partisan of Christianity.
Our subject has ever been prominent in the cause of truth and right. His legal attainments are known and have been recognized by the Bar of the State, as is shown by the fact of his having been appointed as Special Judge to deliver the opinion of that tribunal in the case of Johnson County vs. Wood, reported in the eighty-fourth volume of the Missouri Reports. The opinion delivered by him in the case is indicative of the character and ability of the man and well worthy to be place alongside the decisions of the past, which have sustained the dignity of the highest judicial tribunals in the State." (Source: "Portrait and Biographical Record of Lafayette and Saline Counties, Missouri", Chapman Bros., Chicago, 1893, pages 628-629).
John James Ashton, graduated A. B., Washington College, VA, 1807. He was a farmer in King George Co., VA.
Henry Ashton, CSA, Sergt. Major, Poague's Artillery, Battery, Army of Northern Virginia.
Lt. Richard Watts Ashton, USMC. He was in the War of 1812 at age 14. Afterwards he was a cadet at West Point. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieut., USMC, Jan 28, 1817. He resigned jan 22, 1821.
Dr. William Whetcraft Ashton, CSA. He was a practicing physician in 1861 when he entered the Confederate States Army as a private, Co. D. 2nd GA, regt. In 1862 he transferred to Co. D. 2nd LA Reg., the company of his brother James, and made 2nd Sgt.. He was wounded at 2nd Manassas, Chancellorsville, and Spotsylvania Court House. He was captured in 1862. He surrendered at Appomattox Court House in April 1865. He later practiced medicine in Alexandria, VA.
His wife had previously been married to a Mr. Holland.
Richard Watts Ashton, CSA, was killed at the Battle of Malvern Hill, July 2, 1862. He was educated at the Culpeper Military Institute. He removed to Mansfield, LA, and read law; enlisted in 1861, Pelican Rifles, 2nd LA Reg., CSA. and was elected 1st Lt. He was appointed Adjutant of his regiment, he soon rose to the rank of Major, which office he held when killed. Of this gallant soldier, General Magruder says, in his official report of the "Seven Days Battles", June, 1862: "I cannot speak too highly of the conduct of Major R. W. Ashton, wnd La. Reg. who fell heroically bearing the colours of his regiment to the front."
General Howell Cobb speaks of him in his report of the Battle of Malvern Hill: "It was at this point of the battle that Col. Norwood, of the 2nd La, while gallantly leading his regiment fell severely wounded. Major Ashton, of the same regiment, had seized the colours of the regiment after three brave men had been shot down in the act of bearing them forward, and was bravely cheering on his men and rallying them to their standard, when, pierced by several balls, he fell and died instantly." (Official Record, U. and C.S.A., XI, 672, 749).
Lee Ashton died in infancy.
Taylor Ashton died in infancy.
Capt. John Devereux Ashton, CSA. He entered the Confederate States Army as a private, April 1861, Co. D, 2nd Ga. Reg., Army of Northern Virginia. Made Captain in 1862, in Ga Regt. He was wounded and made prisoner, at Johnson's island. He was a pow for nearly two years and never fully recovered from the exposure in the prison there.
John Devereux Ashton, attorney-at-law.
James Caskey, of Stewarton, Scotland, came to Virginia and became the President of the Exchange Bank, and also of the Bank of Virginia, Richmond.
William Bernard never married.