Well, it's been a while since my last blog post. I still don't have much new information to share on the Anderson family history.I have found some newspaper articles at news.google.com that relate to the book "History of Vernon County" that cover Jesse Anderson, his father-in-law Luke Hale, and his two brother-in-laws James Skaggs, and John Hale.
Luke Hale was a Methodist preacher, and Jesse and John were the first two residents of Haletown. They have the large stone in storage that covered the spring and has several "H"'s engraved into it. It would be interesting to see that stone, and know that our family did that! Amazing.
At the end of one of the articles, there is a question as to a Nancy Skaggs relative. That Nancy Skaggs would have been James Skaggs' sister. His wife just happened to be a Nancy also (there were an awful lot of Nancys and Sarahs!).
The articles also mention A.G. Hale, and an A.G. Anderson. So, I am also currently trying to locate these residents, and see where/if/how they relate. One of my distant cousins has provided some information on A.G. Hale. : ) As always, they help so much!
The only other new tidbit of information was (Clinton) Edward's wife Sarah (Lucas) Anderson on the list of rejected Guion Miller Roll Applications. She filed under her family.I find it especially interesting that all these family members were rejected, but have applied and appealed, and tried to get registered with the Cherokee Nation. It will be VERY interesting to find aunt Nancy who was registered, and see how this all fits together.
Happy hunting!
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Do you know anything about Nancy Skaggs the sister of James? This is teh James who had children in the 1840's, correct? I've been searching forever for the identity of Nancy Skaggs who was the first wife of William S Caton. They had three children, only one of whom lived past the age of ten. She died young, and my great great grandfather remarried. He and his second wife are my gggrands, but I've always wondered where he met Nancy. Coming back to it now because Jennie Skaggs, daughter of James and Nancy, b 1846, married James Washington Blevans, who is the nephew of William's second wife Melissa Jane Blevans.
ReplyDeleteRegarding that newspaper article, researchers who refer to the 1887 History of Vernon County should note a correction made by the author of that volume on page 584. He wrote, "On page 169 of this volume, by a slip of the compiler's pen, the name of John Hale is wrongfully inserted instead of that of his father Luke hale, as it should be. It was Luke Hale who was so devout and renowned a Methodist". So when one refers back to page 169, the author had written that John Hale, a staunch old Methodist, had lived in an area that became known as Haletown. This then means that Luke Hale, his father, was the staunch old Methodist. The newspaper article apparently did not find this correction (which is easy to miss).
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