Alexander Herring

Alexander was born in 1849 in , Washington, IL.  Alexander's father is Daniel Washington Herring and his mother was Helen Ellender Sevier.  His paternal grandparents are Peyton Herring and Mary 'Polly' Evans; his maternal grandparents were John Sevier and Anna Friend. He had five brothers and five sisters, named Jesse L, George Washington, John Wesley, William Jasper, Egell Elvin, Martha Ann, Frances Marion, Elisabeth Jane, Mary Etta and Amelia Nora.  He is the fifth youngest of the eleven children.