James H. Anderson

Brief Life History of James H.

When James H. Anderson was born on 18 September 1862, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Uriah Hardy Anderson, was 52 and his mother, Elizabeth Emeline Gordon, was 38. He died on 28 December 1898, in Tehuacana, Limestone, Texas, United States, at the age of 36.

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Family Time Line

Uriah Hardy Anderson
1810–1893
Elizabeth Emeline Gordon
1824–1897
George Washington Anderson
1844–1917
Thomas Hardy Anderson
1848–1927
Rufus Anderson
1850–
Giles Green Anderson
1851–1913
Elizabeth Simms Anderson
1853–1921
Margaret Ballou "Maggie" Anderson
1856–1878
James H. Anderson
1862–1898
Rufus Anderson
1862–1885

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    World Events (8)

    1865 · Juneteenth (Slaves Were Freed)

    "On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: ""The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."""

    1865 · Sultana Tragedy

    In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.

    1876 · Segregation Laws Are Passed

    A new state constitution was passed in 1876, announcing the segregation of schools.

    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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