Brief Life History of Charles
When Charles Anderson IV was born in 1805, in Cumberland Township, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Charles Anderson III, was 42 and his mother, Margaret Eagon, was 39. He married Jemima Garrison about 1831, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Center District, Wetzel, West Virginia, United States in 1880. He died in 1891, in Wetzel, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Low Gap Cemetery, Wetzel, Virginia, United States.
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- Charles Anderson in household of Elias Anderson, "United States Census, 1880"
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
- Charles Anderson, "Find a Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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