These are the gravestones of Sally Alexander And John Hawpe Carson.  There are many, many Sally Alexanders in my family tree.  This one was my great great grand aunt.  She was the sister of my great great grandfather, John McClure Alexander, as well as the sister of William Archibald and Agnes Jane Alexander about whom I will post or have posted separately.

Sally was born in 1828 in Virginia and died in 1863 in Virginia.  However, she did not live her whole life in Virginia.  When she was about a year old, she and her siblings and her parents, Nancy McCluer and  James Harvey Alexander, moved to Hannibal, St. Charles, Missouri, where her father farmed. Sally's mother died in Missouri in 1833 and her father died there in 1836, leaving Sally and her siblings orphans.

Alexander B. Stuart from Rockbridge County, Virginia, was appointed guardian of the four orphaned children.  Stuart, Sally's uncle by his marriage to Elizabeth Alexander, traveled to Missouri and brought the children back to Virginia. In 1852, Sally married John Hawpe Carson and they had two daughters.  Sally & her husband are both buried in Augusta County, Virginia.