Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed., 1885
Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY.
Graves County

JAMES ANDERSON, Graves County, was born May 10, 1839, in Coffee County,
Tenn., and is the fifth of fifteen children born to John W. and Sarah
(Darnell) Anderson, natives of Tennessee and of Irish and German descent.
Peter and Sina Anderson and James and Elizabeth Darnell were the names of
subject's grandparents.  His father was a soldier in the Mexican war and
was also in the Confederate Army; was a teacher from the age of eighteen 
until forty-four; was elected clerk of the county court of Coffee County
before he returned from the Mexican war, and also was engaged in surveying
for a land company.  James Anderson was reared at Manchester, Tenn., and
until thirteen years old, and was taken to the country; in 1862 he
removed to Paris, Ill., remained there seven years blacksmithing and in
1869 returned to middle Tennessee, where he farmed four years; then for
nearly five years he farmed in Gibson County, and in 1877 came to his 
present place, where he now owns ninety-two acres of well cultivated land.
In August, 1858, he married Sarah J. Waggoner, a native of Knox County, 
Tenn., and daughter of John and Rebecca (Nelson) Waggoner.  His union has
been blessed with twelve children, viz.: Mary E. (deceased), Florence, 
John W., Ada, James, Jacob H., Sarah R., Maggie, Mattie, Theodocia, Lonzo
and Roscoe, who have received a good education in preference to anything
else.  Mrs. Anderson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Anderson Darnell Waggoner Nelson
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Coffee-TN IL Gibson-TN Knox-TN

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