While I am quoting Edwin Scott's book I would like to quote what he writes about my gggggrandfather (his grandfather) in hopes that someone out there might recognize the name and be able to help me find William Anderson's first wife. His second was Sarah Richardson and they moved to Mississippi in 1811.with several of his children, leaving behind Roxanna Anderson Scott (Edwin's mother), William Anderson,Jr., and Liza Anderson Powell. "At home, my first recollections found me at Sumterville, where my father kept a tavern in 1806, when I was about three years old. To get me out of the way at Court time, when the house was full of guests, I was sent to the home of my grandfather, Wm. Anderson,some ten miles East of the village, beyond Black River, between it and the Brick Church (Presbyterian), which then stood nearly, if not exactly, on the beautiful spot occupied by the present day Salem Presbyterian Brick Church, Black River. The river swamp where we crossed it was half a mile wide, crowded with large trees, and had a high bridge over the main current of the stream, which was reached by a causewayed road through the black and sluggish water on either side, so narrow and crooked that a passenger could see but a few yards ahead;always looking gloomy and threatening, often hazardous and sometimes impassable. Now it has a broad embankment, above the highest freshets, through which the river flows under three or four substantial bridges, with strong hand rails that give a sense of perfect security to the traveller. This valuable improvement is due to the skill and energy of my deceased friend, Matthew E. Muldrow, formerly Commissioner of Roads." Blanche