Anna Mexico Alexander

Anna Mexico Alexander

• Father: Paul A. Alexander b. August 1861, d. 1937
• Mother: Mary Elizabeth (?) b. December 1867, d. 1934

• Anna Mexico Alexander was born circa May 1890 in Arkansas.
• Paul A. Alexander and Mary Elizabeth (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Illinois Township, Washington County, Arkansas. Other members of the household included Anna Mexico Alexander. Also in the household were children Clyde A. (age 12), Bluford M. (10), Jeff (7), Elgin (6), Urvin P. (4) and Dewy (1).
• She married Thomas Blythe Young, son of Samuel Porteous Young and Caverhill Tate Blythe.
• Thomas Blythe Young and Anna Mexico Alexander appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Perry, Quay County, New Mexico, enumerated next to the househol of Anna's parents.
• Thomas Blythe Young registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Comanche County, Oklahoma, while living with his wife Anna in rural Mountain Park, Kiowa County, and employed there stock farming.
• Anna Mexico Alexander became a widow at the 9 April 1919 death of her husband Thomas Blythe Young.
• The estate of Thomas Blythe Young was filed for probate on 1 May 1919 in Tillman County, Oklahoma. ". . . The petition of Anna M. Young of said Tillman County respectfully shows, that Thomas Blythe Young died intestate on or about the 9th day of April, 1919, at Devol, County of Cotton and State of Oklahoma. That said deceased at the time of his death was a resident of Tillman County, State of Oklahoma, that said deceased left estate, real and personal in said Cotton and Tillman Counties, and the value and character of said property so far as known to your petitioner are as follows, to-wit: Fourteen (14) head of Horses and Mules of the probable value of $700.00, Cash in Bank $561.00, Oil Stock $500,00, Stock in Devol Bridge Company $1,000.00, Lot Fifteen (15) in Block Forty-seven (47) in the Town of Devol, Oklahoma, Value $2,500.00. . . . That the names, ages and residence of the heirs at law of the deceased as far is known to your petitioner are as follows: Anna M. Young, Widow, Tipton, Oklahoma, Lovena Young, Daughter, age Seven, Tipton, Oklahoma, Samuel Eugene Young, Son age Six, Tipton, Oklahoma, Clarence Young, Son age Eighteen, Ashton, S. D. . . ."
• Samuel Porteous Young and Caverhill Tate Blythe appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Waddington, St. Lawrence County, New York, at Lagrasse Street. Other members of the household included Anna Mexico Alexander, Leavinia Young and Samuel Eugene Young.
• Anna Mexico Alexander appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Tipton, Tillman County, Oklahoma, at 314 East Main Street. Other members of the household included Leavinia Young and Samuel Eugene Young. Also, boarding in the household were two unmarried female public school teachers.
• The following appeared on 22 April 1933 in the Ogdensburg Journal: (Waddington) Mrs. Thomas Young and son, Eugene, have closed the Young house on Main Street and returned to their home in Tipton, Oklahoma. Mrs. Young came to Waddington more than a year ago to care for her father-in-law, Samuel Young, who passed away in January.
• Clyde Amos Newsom and Leavinia Young appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma, at 120 North Donald. Other members of the household included Anna Mexico Alexander. In 1935 Clyde and Leavinia were living in Chickashaw, and her mother was in Tipton.
• Anna Mexico Alexander died in 1968.
• She was interred at Tipton Cemetery, Tipton, Tillman County, Oklahoma.

• Last Edited: 10 Dec 2015