Bladen/Columbus Counties, NC to Texas
1. John Anders emigrated from Scotland to Bladen County, receiving a land grant dated March 27, 1751. He was a sea captain who transported emigrants from Ireland to North Carolina. He was impressed with this new land and decided to move here himself. The name of his first wife, and the mother of his children, is not known. His second wife and widow was Bridgett (O’Day) Beatty White. John died about 1802 in Bladen County. John Anders’ children, all born in Bladen County, were:
2. i. John Anders, Jr., was born 1755 and died 1814. He married Anne Peacock January 27, 1777 in Duplin County. She died 1826/27.
ii. James M. Anders was born 1758 and died 1839. He married Mary LNU.
iii. Elizabeth Anders was born 1760/70 and died 1836. She married Benjamin Locke.
iv. Elisha Anders was born 1763/1770 and died about 1834. He married Margaret Kelso.
v. Hannah Anders was born 1755/74 and died about 1836. She married John Hawes.
2. John Anders, Jr., served as a Major in the American Revolutionary War. He and Ann Peacock had eight children, all born in Bladen County:
3. i. John Alexander Anders, III was born February 17, 1780.
ii. James Anders was born about 1778.
iii. Samuel Anders was born about 1783.
iv. David D. Anders was born about 1785.
v. Timothy Anders was born about 1790.
vi. Elizabeth Anders was born about 1794.
vii. Ann Jane Anders was born about 1796.
viii. William Anders was born about 1798.
3. John Alexander Anders, III, was born February 17, 1780 in Bladen County and died May 15, 1850. He married Ann E. Cromartie, daughter of William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane, May 11, 1816 in Bladen County. Ann was born March 1, 1789 in Bladen County and died March 31, 1849 in Bladen County. John and Ann had seven children, all born in Bladen County:
i. Amy Caroline Anders was born 1816.
ii. William Washington Anders was born December 4, 1818.
iii. John Alexander Anders was born 1819.
iv. Hannah Jane Anders was born 1821.
v. Elizabeth Ann Anders was born 1822.
vi. Mary Margaret Anders was born October 24, 1824.
4. vii. Patrick Lloyd Anders was born July 2, 1826.
Generation IV
4. Patrick Lloyd Anders was born July 2, 1826 in Bladen County, NC and died Dec1, 1900 in Austin, TX. He married Sarah Eliza Wooten, daughter of Richard Lafayette Wooten and Eliza Jane Williams, December 14, 1852 in North Carolina. Sarah was born June 23, 1831 in Columbus County, NC and died December 3, 1871 in Leon County, TX.
In 1855 Patrick Lloyd Anders traveled to Texas where he made selections of land. He returned to North Carolina and, by correspondence, purchased a tract of 1800 acres in Leon County, Texas. In 1858 he and Sarah Eliza joined a group in South Carolina and traveled by wagon train to the Mississippi River and then down the River to New Orleans. They sailed on the Gulf of Mexico to the mouth of the Trinity River and then up that river to Navarro Crossing. He purchased additional land and established a farm there. In 1889 he moved to Oakland for superior school facilities for his children. Sarah Eliza Wooten Anders had four children:
i. Ann E. Anders was born about 1853.
ii. John William Anders was born January 1860.
iii. Jenny Anders was born about 1862.
iv. Carrie Anders was born about 1863.
July 2, 1872 Patrick Lloyd Anders married Fannie Belle Richardson, daughter of John Richardson, a native of North Carolina who moved to Leona, Texas in 1867. Fannie Belle had five children, all born in Texas:
v. Lillie B. Anders was born about 1875.
vi. Jessie L. Anders was born about 1877.
vii. Walter L. Anders was born September 1885.
viii. Nellie B. Anders was born February 1889.
ix. Willie Anders.
Patrick Lloyd Anders died December 1, 1900, in Austin TX. He was buried in Oakland, but later Fannie Bell had him exhumed and reburied in East Hill Cemetery, Palestine, Anderson County, TX.
Bladen County Heritage, North Carolina, 1999. Article 215 – The Anders Family, Jane Anders. Article 216 – The Anders Family of Bladen County, Rosa May Anders Thomas.
History of Leon County, Texas, 1966. Article F11, Celia Parker.
Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas, pages 780 782. The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893.
U. S. Federal Censuses
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