Brief Life History of Ada Samantha
When Ada Samantha Alexander was born on 7 February 1877, in Cass, Texas, United States, her father, John Benjamin "Babe" Alexander, was 31 and her mother, Almedia M. Endsley, was 28. She had at least 4 sons and 6 daughters with James Franklin Taylor. She lived in Justice Precinct 1, Young, Texas, United States in 1910 and Bear Creek Township, Sevier, Arkansas, United States in 1920. She died on 28 December 1954, in Arkansas, United States, at the age of 77.
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Sources (5)
- Ada Taylor in household of James F Taylor, "United States Census, 1900"
- Ada Taylor in household of Jim F Taylor, "United States Census, 1910"
Spouse and Children
1871–1937 Male
1877–1954 Female
Children (10)
1897–1972 Male
1898–1973 Male
1900– Male
1902–1984 Female
1904–1967 Female
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Parents and Siblings
1845–1901 Male
1848–1909 Female
Siblings (8)
1863–1901 Female
1868– Male
1870–1971 Female
1873–1955 Female
1877–1954 Female
+3 More Children
World Events (8)
1881 · Construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway
Age 4
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 4
1898 · War with the Spanish
Age 21
Name Meaning
Scottish, English, German, and Dutch: from the personal name Alexander, classical Greek Alexandros, which probably originally meant ‘repulser of men (i.e. of the enemy)’, from alexein ‘to repel’ + andros, genitive of anēr ‘man’. Its popularity in the Middle Ages was due mainly to the Macedonian conqueror, Alexander the Great (356–323 BC ) - or rather to the hero of the mythical versions of his exploits that gained currency in the so-called Alexander Romances. The name was also borne by various early Christian saints, including a patriarch of Alexandria (c. 250–326 AD ), whose main achievement was condemning the Arian heresy. The Gaelic form of the personal name is Alasdair, which has given rise to a number of Scottish and Irish patronymics, for example McAllister . Alexander is a common personal name in Scotland, often representing an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Spanish Alejandro , Italian Alessandro , Arabic or Assyrian/Chaldean Iskandar and Iskander , and their derivatives, e.g. Greek patronymic Alexandropoulos.
Jewish: from the adopted personal name Alexander (see 1 above) or shortened from the eastern Ashkenazic (originally Slavic) patronymics Aleksandrovich or Alexandrowicz.
History: A number of Scotch-Irish families of this name landed at New York in the early 18th century. By 1746, six of them were established in NC. Others came in through Philadelphia, for example Archibald Alexander, who came from Londonderry in northern Ireland in 1736 and established himself in VA. — The Revolutionary general William Alexander (1726–83) was always known as ‘Lord Sterling’ to his compatriots, although his claim to the title was denied by the College of Arms in London. His father, James Alexander, was a Jacobite who had fled to New York after the failure of the Jacobite rising in 1715. The claim to the title arose in connection with their ancestor Sir William Alexander, a courtier and poet at the court of King James VI of Scotland (James I of England), who created him Earl of Stirling in 1633.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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