Alexander Watkins^[1]

1803 - 1871  (68 years)

• Name	Alexander Watkins
  Born	1803	Halifax County, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	1871	Halifax Co., Virginia
  Buried	Danripple, Halifax Co., Virginia
  Person ID	I16854	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	27 Oct 2016

  
  

  Father	Captain Thomas Watkins,   b. 12 Feb 1761, Halifax Co., Virginia ,   d. Yes, date unknown, Halifax Co., Virginia
  Mother	Rebecca Seldon/Selden,   b. Abt 1770, Halifax County, Virginia ,   d. 1830  (Age ~ 60 years)
  Family ID	F5958	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S100] Internet Source, http://www.oldhalifax.com/county/SouthoftheDanTour3.htm. Bloomsburg - 1839 Bloomsburg mansion was built over a 7 year period, 1832 - 1839. by Alexander Watkins. From the Record-Advertiser, February 18, 1971 By Kenneth H. Cook The house known as "Bloomsburg," completed by Alexander Watkins over a century and a quarter ago, must have been a most impressive place in those now distant days. By our present day standards it is a mansion, in every sense of the word. The land from the highway - US.58- ends in a circular, English boxwood-lined drive before the house. Until the mid-1950's a walk through the circle was bordered with American, or tree, box, grown nearly twenty feet high and so thick the walk was impassable. Unfortunately, this magnificent boxwood was cut completely down, and not a trace of it remains. Photographs of the house and interior decoration.