Alexander was the 8th child of 10 children born to Rev. John Bennington Mahan and Mary (Curtis) Mahan.
When Alexander was only 7 years old, he witnessed his father being taken away by a mob of Kentucky Slaveholders. They accused his father of helping a 12 year old Slave Boy after he swam the Ohio River to the free state of Ohio. His father was jailed for 3 months and contracted Tuberculosis and Died in 1844 at age 43.
It is believed that this traumatic event led Alexander to have mental problems later in life.
Alexander was married 1st on August 3, 1862 to Nancy Stout and then 2nd marriage to Electa C. Edwards on July 30, 1872.
On the 1880 Census, Alexander is head of his household and listed as a Farmer.
On Dec. 2, 1904, Alexander Wickliffe died, a patient in the Bartonville Insane Asylum. This Asylum was a State Hospital which opened for business in 1902.
Long ago a record of treatment for Alexander had been found there by researchers, but the record wasn't allowed to be released. Now those records are gone, destroyed when the Asylum closed in 1973. No record exists any longer that we know of.
This information was given by The Lexington Geneological Society to Elizabeth Franklin, who shared the information with me, Juanita Clark.
When Alexander was only 7 years old, he witnessed his father being taken away by a mob of Kentucky Slaveholders. They accused his father of helping a 12 year old Slave Boy after he swam the Ohio River to the free state of Ohio. His father was jailed for 3 months and contracted Tuberculosis and Died in 1844 at age 43.
It is believed that this traumatic event led Alexander to have mental problems later in life.
Alexander was married 1st on August 3, 1862 to Nancy Stout and then 2nd marriage to Electa C. Edwards on July 30, 1872.
On the 1880 Census, Alexander is head of his household and listed as a Farmer.
On Dec. 2, 1904, Alexander Wickliffe died, a patient in the Bartonville Insane Asylum. This Asylum was a State Hospital which opened for business in 1902.
Long ago a record of treatment for Alexander had been found there by researchers, but the record wasn't allowed to be released. Now those records are gone, destroyed when the Asylum closed in 1973. No record exists any longer that we know of.
This information was given by The Lexington Geneological Society to Elizabeth Franklin, who shared the information with me, Juanita Clark.
Alexander was the 8th child of 10 children born to Rev. John Bennington Mahan and Mary (Curtis) Mahan.
When Alexander was only 7 years old, he witnessed his father being taken away by a mob of Kentucky Slaveholders. They accused his father of helping a 12 year old Slave Boy after he swam the Ohio River to the free state of Ohio. His father was jailed for 3 months and contracted Tuberculosis and Died in 1844 at age 43.
It is believed that this traumatic event led Alexander to have mental problems later in life.
Alexander was married 1st on August 3, 1862 to Nancy Stout and then 2nd marriage to Electa C. Edwards on July 30, 1872.
On the 1880 Census, Alexander is head of his household and listed as a Farmer.
On Dec. 2, 1904, Alexander Wickliffe died, a patient in the Bartonville Insane Asylum. This Asylum was a State Hospital which opened for business in 1902.
Long ago a record of treatment for Alexander had been found there by researchers, but the record wasn't allowed to be released. Now those records are gone, destroyed when the Asylum closed in 1973. No record exists any longer that we know of.
This information was given by The Lexington Geneological Society to Elizabeth Franklin, who shared the information with me, Juanita Clark.
When Alexander was only 7 years old, he witnessed his father being taken away by a mob of Kentucky Slaveholders. They accused his father of helping a 12 year old Slave Boy after he swam the Ohio River to the free state of Ohio. His father was jailed for 3 months and contracted Tuberculosis and Died in 1844 at age 43.
It is believed that this traumatic event led Alexander to have mental problems later in life.
Alexander was married 1st on August 3, 1862 to Nancy Stout and then 2nd marriage to Electa C. Edwards on July 30, 1872.
On the 1880 Census, Alexander is head of his household and listed as a Farmer.
On Dec. 2, 1904, Alexander Wickliffe died, a patient in the Bartonville Insane Asylum. This Asylum was a State Hospital which opened for business in 1902.
Long ago a record of treatment for Alexander had been found there by researchers, but the record wasn't allowed to be released. Now those records are gone, destroyed when the Asylum closed in 1973. No record exists any longer that we know of.
This information was given by The Lexington Geneological Society to Elizabeth Franklin, who shared the information with me, Juanita Clark.
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