Alexander Ellerbe English
b. June 1853, d. 23 February 1917
- Father: Robert J. English b. circa 1823, d. 1857
- Mother: Georgia Ann Speight b. circa 1824, d. 1855
- Alexander Ellerbe English was born in June 1853 in Alabama.
- He was known as Ellerbe.
- Thomas Colley Thomas and Virginia Elizabeth McCullers Speight appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Clinton, Greene County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Alexander Ellerbe English, Ashley Wood Spaight Anderson, James Cameron Anderson, M. Georgia V. Thomas, Matilda M. Wood and James George.
- He is listed in the 1939 Register of Former Cadets, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, under Class of 1877:
*English, Ellerbe; Galveston, Texas; 3 yrs., rep. 4th; Died near San Antonio, Texas. - In the 1850 census, Georgia Speight and Robert English were enumerated next to Alexander Ellerbe and his wife Catherine Pegues, and in 1854, they named their son Alexander Ellerbe English.
- Alexander Ellerbe English appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Helotes, Bexar County, Texas, boarding in the household of Amalie Stolz Mueller Boegel, a German immigrant who for fifteen years was Helotes postmistress, and operated a stagecoach inn that became a popular guest ranch or country hotel.
- He was a capitalist, according to the 1900 census.
- Alexander Ellerbe English appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Helotes, Bexar County, Texas, at Braun Hoffmann Road boarding in the household of Amalie Boegel.
- He was living on his own income, according to the 1910 census.
- Alexander Ellerbe English died on 23 February 1917 at age 63 in Helotes, Bexar County, Texas, at the Boegel ranch . Informant was neighbor Samuel Henry Galm, nephew of Amalie Boegel.
- He was interred at Mission Cemetery.
- Last Edited: 8 May 2013