The Times of Long Ago, Barren County, Kentucky. By Frankln Gorin. John P
Morton & Company Incorporated, 1929. Published originally in the Glasgow
Weekly Times, 1870's. 

Chapter XXIX. A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF REV. ALEXANDER DAVIDSON.  Of his
parentage, place of his birth, and time, as well as of his birth, and time,
as well as of his pursuits in early life, we are almost entirely ignorant.
He was of Irish extraction and possessed many traits and pecularities of
that ancient and noble race.  We have many reasons to believe that he was
born in the State of North Carolina when it was a colony of Great Britain,
and that he was a preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ before he
emigrated to this county in the early part of the last century.
	He was married in North Carolina twice, but we don't know the maiden names
of either of his wives. By his first wife he had nine children.  After her
death he married a second time to Mrs. Mary Jones, a widow with one child,
a daughter named Rachel.  By her he had ten children.  In all, including
his step-daughter, Rachel, he had twenty.
	Ten of them were born in Kentucky.  Their names were Jesse, Allan, Abram,
Jacob, Ellice, Asa, Rachel, Albert, Elizabeth, Sarah, James, John,
Alexander, Hezekiah, William, Margaret, Elijah, Benjamin and Isaiah.  He
was fond of Scripture names, as is evident from the names of his children.
	He was survived by all of his children and by his second wife; by her for
many years, until 1845.
	Jacob married Mary Winn, the daughter of Thomas Winn, for many years
Justice of the Peace for Barren County.  He is the only child now living. 
He and his wife with about twenty children are living in California.
	Sarah married George W. Holland, a shoemaker of Glasgow. Both are dead.
	Elizabeth married Dr. Benjamin Thruston, a teacher and a man of fine
classical education.  Both are dead.
	Benjamin married a Miss Depp, daughter of Wm. Depp, and Isaac married a
Miss Dodd.  All of the above left children, and two last, large families.
	We do not know who the others married.  Some of them remained single.  One
or more of the sons became preachers.  There were no more respectable
citizens in Barren County.  In this and in Warren county are many of their
descendants living, esteemed generally.
	Alexander Davidson, as well as many of his children, was a stout, robust
and muscular man, of much energy, with a sound, strong mind, industrious
and trustworthy.  As soon as he settled in this county, he commenced
preaching, and aided by Carter Tarrant and J. Hightower, organizing
churches. He organized the church of Sinking Creek in Warren County and was
its pastor almost till his death, which occurred in 1817.
	Mount Tabor (originally called Beaver Creek) was organized at an early
day, by him, Carter Tarrant and Wm. Hickman.  He also assisted in
constituting other churches.  He was a zealous, industrious and active
preacher, plain in his manner and address, faithful to the practices of the
church.  His walk was upright; he was honest, truthful and humble.  He was
a kind husband, father and neighbor and a humane master.  He owned a number
of slaves and other property, which was not, with the exception of a few
legacies, distributed among his descendants until the death of his wife in
1845, the whole having been given to her during her life.
	He was a member of the convention which formed our second State
constitution, on the 17th day of August, 1799 - being the only delegate
from Warren County.
	He died on his farm in the forks of Beaver Creek and the South Fork, where
he had resided many years.  His descendants are scattered over the West and
the South, only a few left in Kentucky.

Davidson Jones Winn Holland Thruston Depp Dodd Tarrant Hightower
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NC Great_Britain CA Warren-KY 

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