Hi - On the 1919 Ft Bragg Property Owners Map for those who SOLD personal property to the U S Government in 1918, there is an AGNES ANDERS (could well be a mispelling - hand writing was hard to read) 54.1 Acres, Map Section 2, Map Number 128. Hope that helps some. dolores Bulletetal@aol.com wrote: > Dolores > > While you are in the Fort Bragg area looking into your family homeplace look > at something of interest to me if you have time. > > Angus Anders (I believe the name is correct) owned land on land that is now > on the base. Years later some lawyer relative of his found out he had not > been paid for the property and tried to sue or something. This was in about > the first half of the 1960s. As was the style of that time Anders supporters > held a sit in at the gates to Fort Bragg. I remember my daddy saying, I > wonder how they think they are going to get money out of the government? I > know a very distant relative of my husband who told me he got $312. as his > part of the settlement. I made a call to Fort Bragg a few years ago and > ascertained that the story is true. > > I remember when this happened but was gone from home and just back for a > brief visit when I heard about it so I just have a memory of a liitle of it. > Seems like settlement had something to do with a gas station corner or so. > This was 30 years before I found out that Andress and Anders was the same > name in Bladen county and surrounding area. > > DO ANY OF YOU LOCALS THAT REMEMBER WHEN THIS WAS GOING ON? BY THIS TIME I > WAS LIVING NEAR BERKLEY, CA. AND MY CONCERNS WERE A LITTLE DIFFERENT---LIKE > GETTING MY SKIRTS SHORT ENOUGH AND MY BEADS LONG ENOUGH NOT TO LOOK OUT OF > PLACE. > > I'd just be interested in any of the story that might still be around. Thanks > > Have a great Sunday > Kay Russ Andress -- dolores SAMONS harvell Genealogy - Disturbing the dead and irritating the living.