The Lost Branch of the Anderson Family

Book excerpt: The earliest known ancestor, Richard Anderson, Sr. (b. ca. 1585), was born in England. He sailed to America in 1635 from England and settled in Gloucester Co., Va. where three sons awaited him. He was married to Eliz. Hawkins, daughter of Richard Hawkins, at All Hallows Honey Lane in London, England. Thomas Allen Howard Anderson (1821-1885) was the son of Thos. Jefferson Anderson and Ann Meriwether Thomson. He was born in Virginia and died in Cheatham Co., Tenn. He was married to Martha Ann Stanley (1820-1888), daughter of Geo. Stanley and Sarah Ann Clark in 1843 in Bedford Co., Va. Family left Bedford Co., Va. sometime after 1847 staying in Kentucky for awhile before contuining on to Tennessee where they arrived sometime before 1850. Descendants live in Tennessee, Texas, Kentucky and elsewhere.