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To survive in the early years, the Alexanders sold plums and wild grasses to soldiers stationed at nearby Fort Elliott. Her sons gathered bones left by [[bison]]  hunters and sold them in Dodge City, [[Kansas]]. The family also rounded up unbranded cattle, which they claimed as their own. The cowboys often visited the Alexander Ranch, at which they enjoyed Mary Jane's cooking.<ref name=bio/>  

To survive in the early years, the Alexanders sold plums and wild grasses to soldiers stationed at nearby Fort Elliott. Her sons gathered bones left by [[bison]]  hunters and sold them in Dodge City, [[Kansas]]. The family also rounded up unbranded cattle, which they claimed as their own. The cowboys often visited the Alexander Ranch, at which they enjoyed Mary Jane's cooking.<ref name=bio/>  

Mary Jane sent all five of her children to Polk College in [[Missouri]], which apparently no longer exists. The oldest son, Hugh, followed his father's lead into the ministry and located to Kansas. Second son Robert Theodore, known as R. T. Alexander (1873-1968), studied animal husbandry and bred  stray cattle into a herd of Herefords. The third son, Erastus Randall Alexander, became a [[physician]] in [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], [[New York]]. Mary Jane's two college-educated daughters, Nona Agnes Snyder (1878-1975) and Lucy Mathes Alexander Romig (1875-1964), became, respectively, a teacher in Canadian, Texas, and a missionary to [[China]] with her Presbyterian minister husband, Harry Gutelius Romig (1874-1948).<ref name=bio/>Two other Alexander children, Alice Maude and John C., died in infancy.<ref name=findagrave/>

Mary Jane sent all five of her children to Polk College in [[Missouri]], which apparently no longer exists. The oldest son, Hugh, followed his father's lead into the ministry and located to Kansas. Second son Robert Theodore, known as R. T. Alexander (1873-1968), studied animal husbandry and bred  stray cattle into a herd of Herefords. The third son, Erastus Randall Alexander, became a [[physician]] in [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], [[New York]]. Mary Jane's two college-educated daughters, Nona Agnes Snyder (1878-1975) and Lucy Mathes Alexander Romig (1875-1964), became, respectively, a teacher and a missionary to [[China]] with her Presbyterian minister-husband, Harry Gutelius Romig (1874-1948).<ref name=bio/>Two other Alexander children, Alice Maude and John C., died in infancy.<ref name=findagrave/>

==Death and legacy==

==Death and legacy==