Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1898, JUNE 1065 ALEX. BRECKINRIDGE. ALEXANDER BRECKINRIDGE June 6 - Alexander Breckinridge, the fifth of the naem, died at Edgerton, Mo. He was born December 25, 1829, in Bourbon County, Ky. Married first to Nancy Winn of Clinton County, Mo. Daughter of James Winn. After her death, childless, he married second, Mary E. Scott, born in October 1836, daughter of Washington Scott, who was born in Bourbon County, Ky., December 18, 1812, and died near Barry, Mo., February 6, 1857. She lives, childless, at Edgerton. THE BRECKINRIDGE LINEAGE Ireland to Orange County, Va. in 1740 1. John 2. George 3. Robert 4. Smith 5. Letitia 6. Alexander (ii) Magdalen Gamble, of the family of Hamilton Gamble, war governor of Missouri. CHILDREN OF ALEX BRECKINRIDGE (iii) I. GEORGE BRECKINRIDGE, who came to Missouri II. ROBIN BRECKINRIDGE, went to Ohio III. JAMES BRECKINRIDGE, whos daughter married Hodges, of the Frankfort Yeoman IV. ALEXANDER BRECKINRIDGE (iv), married Ann Chambers. A child was Elmore Breckinridge, who died near Platte City, Nov. 25, 1880, and whose wife was Letitia Strode. V. JOHN BRECKINRIDGE, married Mary Duncan, of Bourbon County, Ky. Their only child was: 1. Oliver P. Breckinridge, who married Nancy Ellis, and had: [a] James Breckinridge [b] Mary Wilmot [c] Susan Canby [d] Sallie, wife of Prof. J. W. Ellis Mary (Duncan) Breckinridge died and John Breckinridge married 2nd, Ann Brooks, and had: 2. Mary Breckinridge, who married 1st, a Masser, and 2nd a Talbott 3. John Breckinridge, who married Nancy Kerr 4. George Breckinridge, who married Jane Ardry 5. Alexander Breckinridge (v), the subject of our sketch 6. Ann Ardry