Brief Life History of William David
When William David Anderson was born in 1808, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, his father, James C Anderson Jr., was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Frances Sarah Summerlin, was 22. He married Sallie Jane Russell in 1917, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Ivy Township, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1880. He died in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, and was buried in Anderson Cove Cemetery, Barnardsville, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States.
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- Wm D Anderson, "United States Census, 1840"
- Legacy NFS Source: William D. Anderson - Government record: birth-name: William D. Anderson
- findagrave.com
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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