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Date Posted: 13:20:18 01/18/12 Wed
Author: George G. Curley (Andersons for ever unknown)
Subject: Re: Thomas J. Anderson ( of Abbeville, SC)'s father?
In reply to: Thomas Jay Anderson 's message, "Re: Thomas J. Anderson ( of Abbeville, SC)'s father?" on 08:04:00 01/24/08 Thu

>Greetings! Believe it or not, I am the eighth Thomas
>Anderson I know of stretching back to the ancestors
>that you mention. I have been to the grave of Thomas
>Anderson and Jane Kennedy Anderson near Greensboro,
>Alabama (the Mt. Zion Cemetary, across the street from
>where the Anderson family homestead used to be).
>There is an inceredible portrait of Jane Kennedy
>Anderson that still exists---she lived until about
>1859, and the portrait is in a book of early Alabama
>settlers. My late Aunt, Evelyn Anderson, knew a
>great deal about the family history and told me it
>stretched back to a Thomas Isadore Anderson who died
>fighting in the Battle of Charlestown in 1780, and it
>was his son who moved to the Alabama territory in
>1827. She thought the family originally came from
>Scotland.
>
>I don't know much about the next generation, but his
>grandson Thomas Jefferson Anderson (my great-great
>grandfather) was editor of the Greene County Democrat
>in Eutaw until he died in about 1906. His grandson
>was my grandfather, Dr. Thomas Jefferson Anderson, who
>was a physician in Greensboro until he died in 1970.
>My dad of the same name was also a doctor in Atlanta
>until his death in 1994. I am the Dean of Media
>Production at a university in Atlanta, and my long
>uncompleted documentary film about the Anderson
>genealogy will hopefully get finished one of these
>days.
>
>I would love to compare notes with you.
>
>Thomas Jay "Tom" Anderson
>1412 Tugaloo Drive
>Atlanta, GA 30319
Send me an email to compare.I am involved as ggg grandson of TJ. through Tj-Eugene Hentz Anderson - Ala Jane his daughter.

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Re: Thomas J. Anderson ( of Abbeville, SC)'s father? -- George G. Curley (elated to find this.), 13:26:55 01/18/12 Wed
- Re: Thomas J. Anderson ( of Abbeville, SC)'s father? -- BPalmer, 12:00:24 03/19/12 Mon