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From: "Glenn A. Anderson" <>
Subject: Re: [GAFANNIN] KENT, WILLSON, ANDERSON
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 22:07:36 -0600
In-Reply-To: <001f01c1b1ee$1c78dbe0$2e84d7d8@net>




Hi Doyle and Glenda ...

Just thought I'd let you know I'm still tapped into [GAFANNIN] and still
dead ended in looking for the parents of Samuel Anderson, b. 1793 in Burke
Co. NC and wife Malinda Ballew b. 1786

Couple of things ...

1. Mildred Hunter the source for the Anderson Family History in "Facets"
listed them as being from Buncombe Co., but marriage bonds list them as
being from Burke, with several children being born there ... except one
which was born in McDowell ... which leads me to believe they indeed lived
in Burke, that part of which was later set off as McDowell Co. Comments?

2. She also had Samuel coming to Fannin with a slave "John and wife" ... A
John indeed shows up in the Anderson household on a census, but apparently
as a single male vice married ... and I can find no record in Fannin Co. of
any of the Andersons posessing even a single slave. Any knowledge of this
individual ?

3. In the Anderson Family Cemetery, off Salem Road in Fannin Co., there are
several small unmarked stones at the West edge of the cemetery. They are
too far removed from the other headstones on that end to be foot stones ...
all of the Harpers and Andersons of that era who lived in Fannin seem to be
accounted for ... any idea of too whom these "mystery stones" may belong to?

4. For Doyle ... can you give me the source for Alexander Kent's
Revolutionary War service? Would love to document it a bit further if
possible.

5. There is a note in the Willson family bible, next to the name of
one of the children of Cathrine Caldona Willson who married William R.
England as follows: "John Alison England was Born May 1 1880 ... shot by
John Harper 12-22-1900" Any details available as to this particular event ?

6. Thanks to Judge Carrol Ross who gave me the pension records of Mary
Malissa (Pack) Stanburry it has been firmly established that gr gr gf
Solomon Stanbury was captured at VanZandt's store and subsequently shot in
Dalonegah GA during the civil war as a "bushwhaker" according to those
documents ... however the term is generic to the era in that everyone called
everyone else a "bushwhacker" on both sides. There was never any record of
any military or civil trial ... he, along with Witt and Stuart were
apparently taken out solely on the order of Col Findley and executed ... but
specifically singled out and taken out from a group of men that were
captured with them ... so there had to be specific cause...

At the pension hearing for Mary, John Harper made an off hand remark that
Solomon "had ridden with a group of men that killed a man named Manquim ...
the name Manquim is annotated with (sp) indicating the person recording the
name was unsure of its spelling. I asked Judge Ross about this and he
stated the (sp) was in the original document and not his own transcription
there of.

The closest name to "Manquim" that I can find in Fannin Co is that of Judge
Nathanial Mangum, a relative of the Ballew family (ergo likely also the
Anderson family) , who was indeed attacked and killed at his residence by a
group of men ... all unidentified, save for the fact that the old Judge
killed the leader of the group and two other men who were brothers.

Could there be a tie-in between the killing of Judge Mangum, who lived at
Higdon and Stuart-Witt-Stanbury being shot as bushwhackers? Stuart lived in
the same vicinity as the Judge, and assuredly knew that he had a gold mine,
in addition to which the Judge was in charge of the much dispised Home
Guard in Fannin and other counties ... a prime target for Union raiders,
which Stuart-Witt-and Stanbury would have been , riding with Capt Wm Twiggs
group of "recruits", at that time, yet to be mustered in Union Cavalry,
later to become Co. H of the 5th TN Mounted Cavalry.

Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated ....

Glenn Anderson ... Gr Gr Gr Grandson of Samuel Anderson

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> I can help with these families.
> Doyle Harper

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>> The families I am researching on the paternal side are Carter, Gardner,
>> Deweese, Deaver, Fain. My mother's family names are Dickey, Anderson,
>> Willson, Kent, Chastain, Braselton, Denton. Most of these families have
>> been in Fannin for several generations, some were here before it was
>> officially Fannin County.

>> Glenda
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