Registering guests at the reunion were Jim Alexander, Betty Alexander Chaney and Jane Alexander Knapik. The descendants of Samuel Stevenson Alexander and Thurzy Ross Alexander met for their annual reunion on June 29 at the Holiday House. Approximately 60 were present.

Samuel and Thurzy settled on Mesquite Creek six miles south of Lampasas in 1854 after living in Georgetown for five years where Samuel helped to organize Williamson County and served as its first treasurer.

He was an early entrepreneur, owning a grocery store and a blacksmith shop in Georgetown and a salt mine in Llano County.

Seeking more land, the family moved to Lampasas and became ranchers and farmers.

They first came to Texas from Fayetteville, Ark., traveling with their 11 children by covered wagon.

Before lunch was served, Bobbye Alexander Behlau welcomed guests, and Farrell Hogg offered a prayer of thanksgiving for the gathering and for the pioneer families who settled Texas.

After lunch, Jane Alexander Knapik, whose mother wrote the first history of the family, gave a review of the history, and Mrs. Behlau called the roll of the 11 children. Five were represented among the guests.

Family members given special recognition were Marion Robert Alexander, who wrote a family newsletter from 1986-1994, and Grace Alexander Hogg who wrote her autobiography in 2007.

Mrs. Behlau thanked the Griffin family for organizing and serving the food, Dortha Collins for organizing the silent auction, Betty Alexander Chaney and Mrs. Knapik for registering guests, and Jim Alexander and Anne Alexander for acting as treasurers.

Doris Griffin Poe displayed markers that are to be placed on the unmarked graves in the family cemetery. The cost is about $45 each. Proceeds from a silent auction would be used to supply other markers. She invited everyone to participate in the silent auction and to visit the cemetery after the reunion.

Prizes were awarded to Marion Robert Alexander, the oldest present; Coltin Decker, the youngest; Sharon Alexander who traveled the greatest distance; Doris Griffin Poe for being the elder with the most generations present; Beau Alexander and Jim Alexander for telling the most interesting stories about the Alexanders; and to the best dressed, Sheri Snell.

Dortha Griffin Collins announced the winners of the silent action items.

During the business meeting, it was decided to meet again the last Sunday in June in 2009 at the same place.