In a message dated 8/28/01 10:18:00 AM, NNoe1313@aol.com writes: >I am looking for evidence that my JAMES ANDERSON & his son, ROBERT settled >in PERRY CO. Family story has it that they settled and died in "Linden, >Perry Co. TN". > >They were originally from NC I believe, but came to TN ca 1798 with their >Father, WILLIAM and were in DAVIDSON CO. I know ROBERT was born 1832 >"at the mouth of the TURNBULL Creek, on the banks of the big Harpeth." > ROBERT married SARAH WOMACH, and settled in Perry Co. SARAH died during >the Civil War. He re-married after the war, but don't know 2nd wife's name. > >ROBERT was a Blacksmith in PERRY Co. He died in 1877. The following is from the papers of Frances Gibbs. Robert Drake Anderson was born in Davidson Co., Tennessee in 1832, near the Williamson Co. line, a son of James and Sarah Hughes Anderson. He was first married to Elizabeth Blackwell Christian in 1854. They were the parents of two daughters, Sarah Anderson McCallister and Bobbie Anderson Cotham. After the death of his wife, Elizabeth, in 1866 he was married to Sarah Adaline Womack on March 20, 1868, in Madison County, Tennessee. They were the parents of four children: Elizabeth who died at age 20, unmarried; Anna who married William J. Milan; William Thomas who married Jennett (Nettie) Sutton March 6, 1899 at Trenton, Tennessee; Robert who was married to Anna Plummer. Robert Drake Anderson died Feb. 23, 1907 in Linden, Perry Co., Tennessee and in buried in Bethel Cemetery, Perry Co., Tennessee. He was a captain in the Civil War. (More later) His second wife, Sarah Adaline Womack, was born in 1838 in Caswell Co., North Carolina, died Feb. 4, 1910 in Linden, Perry Co., Tennessee, and is buried in Bethel Cemetery, Perry Co., Tennessee. Her parents were Thomas Massey Womack and Elizabeth Pollard. James Anderson, father of Robert Drake Anderson, was buried on his farm in Perry Co., Tennessee. His lone grave is up on a hill (Have photo). The farm has changed owners through the years, once owned by a man named Stokes and recently owned by a man named Parnell. More later. I'll see if I can find her sources. Valerie