Alexander married Jane Savage Dixon on 8 Jan 1846 in Henderson County, Kentucky. Jane (daughter of Payne Dixon and Hannah Savage) was born on 10 Nov 1826; died on 2 Mar 1920. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Posey was born 19 September 1774, in Virginia, and died 25 November 1851, in Henderson County, Kentucky. He married in 1798, his stepsister, Lucy Frances THORNTON, daughter of Major George THORNTON and Mary ALEXANDER. They had eleven children.

From an Obituary found in the Posey Family Bible:

"...After the death of his mother, Captain John Posey was taken into the family of his maternal grandmother and resided there until the return of his father from the army. He was then sent to the best teachers in Virginia..... He obtained from President Washington a commission in the Light Horse, and immediately joined the army under General Wayne. He fought gallantly atthe battle of the Rapids, was at the Treaty of Greenville..... After the peace .. he returned to Virginia and married Miss Lucy F. Thornton, the step-daughter of his father with whom he settled on a beautiful farm near Lexington, Virginia. He was the oldest Elder of the Presbyterian Church in Henderson at the time of his death."

John married Lucy Frances Thornton in 1798. Lucy (daughter of Major George Thornton and Mary Alexander) was born WFT est 1762-1787; died WFT est 1824-1877. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Payne married Hannah Savage WFT est 1801-1844. Hannah was born WFT est 1784-1807; died WFT est 1829-1895. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"General Thomas Posey was born in Fairfax County not far from Fredericksburg, July 9, 1950. Certain it is, however, that Fredericksburg was his Home Town as much so as it was Washington's Home Town. It is not certain in what year of his age did young Posey live in Fredericksburg. It is certain, however, that he was a Fredericksburger, and the records of the Masonic Lodge here show that he was a member of the Lodge at the same time that Washington...was..., and also in later years was fellow vestryman of Pohick Church with George Washington.

"He had served in Lord Dunmore's Shawnee expedition and fought in the Battle of Point Pleasant. In 1775 he was a member of the Virginia Committee of Correspondence, commanded a company of the Seventh Virginia Regiment; joined Washington's Army in New Jersey in 1777, where his company was transferred to Morgan's riflemen; fought in the battles of Bemis Heights and Stillwater; was Major of Second Virginia Regiment at Monmouth; in 1778 was transferred to Seventh Virginia Regiment; was Lieutenant Colonel in 1782 and transferred to First Virginia Regiment in 1783 and later was Brigadier General of the United States Army. He resigned February 28, 1794.

"General Posey led an expedition against the Indians after the Massacre of Wyoming. At Stony Point he received the arms of the British officer and was at the surrender of Yorktown October 19, 1781.

"In his later years he removed to Kentucky, was State Senator several times, and speaker 1806. He was also Lieutenant Governor.

"When war was threatened in 1809 he was commissioned Major General and organized the Kentucky Volunteers.

"Later he removed to Louisiana and became United States Senator; was Governor of Indiana Territory, 1813-16; was defeated for Governor when Indiana became a State; from 1816-18 was Indian Agent at Shawneetown, Illinois, where he died March 19, 1818."

Sources:

[EMERY, Alvin T., History of Fredericksburg, Virginia.]

Thomas married Martha Mathews on 30 Nov 1772. Martha (daughter of Joshua Mathews and Mary ?) was born in 1754 in Augusta County, Virginia; died on 7 Sep 1778. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Martha Mathews was born in 1754, in Augusta County, Virginia, and died 7 September 1778. She married 30 November 1772, General Thomas POSEY, of Fredericksburg, son of Captain John POSEY and Martha PRICE, widow of George HARRISON. General Posey was born 9 July 1750 in Fairfax County, Virginia, and died 19 March 1818, in Shawneetown, Illinois. He was a Major in the Revolution, and later Brigadier General in the United States Army, and at one time was Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. After the death of Martha Mathews, Thomas Posey married Mary ALEXANDER, widow of Major George THORNTON. Martha Mathews and Thomas Posey had three children, only one of whom lived to maturity.

George married Mary Alexander WFT est 1747-1798. Mary was born WFT est 1728-1765; died WFT est 1762-1849. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]