Sylvia Carol Kingins
Sylvia Carol Kingins was born on February 19, 1942 in Bumpus Mill, Tennessee. She was the only child of James Carroll “Buster” Kingins and Annie Pearl Carr Kingins. James Carroll was a native of Stewart County, Tennessee and worked as a farmer. Annie Pearl was a native of Trigg County, Kentucky and was a descendant of Drewry Bridges.
Carol grew up on the Kingins homestead which lies on the state border of Stewart County, Tennessee and Trigg County, Kentucky. The farm is noted because it lies at the point on the state line where the early surveyors made the offset in the state line. Legend has it that the mistake was made because the surveyors had consumed too much peach brandy at the time.
Carol attended the Bumpus Mills Grade School, the Dover Elementary School and went on to graduate from Stewart County High School. She went on to graduate from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee in 1964. She later received her master’s degree in education at Murray State University. She taught school in Christian and Caldwell counties in Kentucky in her early years. In 1970, she became a science and biology teacher at Trigg County High School in Cadiz.
After retiring from the Trigg County school system, Carol taught in the Clarksville, Tennessee school system for a number of years. She then obtained her real estate license and began her second career as a realtor with Coldwell Banker Realty Company.
On June 18, 1964, Carol married Jackie Wade Alexander at the home of her aunt, Mrs. N. C. Hancock in Russellville, Kentucky. Jackie was born on October 9, 1938, the son of Troy Alexander and Alma Wade Allen Alexander. Both Troy and Alma were natives of Trigg County where Troy worked as a farmer and maintenance worker.
Jackie grew up in the Siloam community of Trigg County and graduated from Trigg County High School in 1957. He went on to attend Western Kentucky University. He worked for a construction company that laid pipelines across the Southwest. In 1961, he joined the U. S. Army where he was stationed at Fort Bragg. North Carolina and worked as a Military Policeman with the 82nd Airborne Division.
After Carol and Jackie were married, they lived in Princeton, Kentucky where Jackie worked for the Electric Plant Board of Princeton. After Jackie began working for South Central Bell, they built a home in the Siloam community in 1967. Jackie engaged part time as a farmer and later retired from South Central Bell.
Jackie and Carol were the parents of two sons, Kevin Blaine Alexander, born in 1967 and married Kimberly Marie Jones and Kendall Blair Alexander, born in 1974 and married Kristin Marie Hurst.
Carol and Jackie’s marriage ended in divorce and she married her second husband, William Ferrel Miller who was born January 17, 1933. She and Ferrel lived in Murray, Kentucky.
Jackie died on October 12, 2004, at the age of 66 at his home. He was buried in the Siloam Church Cemetery in Trigg County.
Carol died on October 17, 2022 at the age of 80 at the Anna Mae Owen Residential Hospice House in Murray. She was buried in the Salem Cemetery in Murray, Kentucky.
Jackie Alexander, Carol Kingins' first husband
LINEAGE: (Sylvia Carol Kingins was the daughter of James Carroll “Buster” and Annie Pearl Carr Kingins and the granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson and Daisy Dean Sumner Carr. Daisy was the first child of James Edmond and Mary Louisa Bridges Sumner. Mary was the second child of Drewry and Peachie Ann Tart Bridges. Drewry was the fourth child of William and Mary Thomas Bridges. William was the fourth child of Drury and Charity Cohoon Bridges.)
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