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From: "Patricia Tamburrino" <>
Subject: Thomas ALEXANDER obit search
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:11:58 -0500


I am looking for an obit on my Thomas ALEXANDER (b.2/14/1775) in hopes it will say where he was born, in order to get a location on his parents, Ninion and Katharine ALEXANDER. Family history says that Ninion's father (also Thomas) came to the Nottingham/West Nottingham area in 1736 with his brothers, Robert and Archibald. My Thomas arrived in Oxford,PA in 1820/21 and he died there on 10/10/1843. He served in the War of 1812 from Chester Co, married Ann EWING (d/o Wm.EWING & Margaret PATTERSON) of Little Britian Twp. in 1816, he was Oxford's First Burgess, was a store owner in town, a farmer, a teacher (Hopewell Academy or maybe Oxford Seminary?) and a leading man in legal and religious (Presbyterian) matters. So, I feel something must have been written about him when he died. I know that Oxford's main newspaper started sometime after his death. What paper would have written something about him in 1843? Thanks so much for any help!
Patricia (Alexander) Tamburrino
Laurel Springs,NJ

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