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Caswell County Genealogy
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 1869 - 1945 (75 years)
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| Name |
Anderson, George Andrew [1] |
| Birth |
30 Nov 1869 |
Anderson, Caswell County, North Carolina  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reference Number |
5359 |
| Death |
17 May 1945 |
Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina |
| Burial |
Harrison Family Cemetery, Purley, Caswell County, North Carolina |
| Person ID |
I5289 |
Caswell County |
| Last Modified |
2 May 2024 |
| Father |
Anderson, Dr. John Quinton M.D., b. 8 Apr 1820, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 8 Jul 1899, Anderson, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 79 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Rice, Minerva Isabella, b. 24 Dec 1836, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 18 Apr 1903, Anderson Township, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 66 years) |
| Relationship |
Stepchild |
| Marriage |
16 Dec 1863 |
Caswell County, North Carolina |
| Reference Number |
40979 |
| Family ID |
F2740 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Slade, Mary Elizabeth, b. 21 Jul 1873, Purley, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 20 Sep 1939, Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 66 years) |
| Marriage |
26 May 1897 |
| Reference Number |
39690 |
| Children |
| + | 1. Anderson, Kenneth Gordon, b. 5 Mar 1898, Anderson, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 9 Dec 1968, Durham, Durham County, North Carolina (Age 70 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 2. Anderson, Mary Slade, b. 2 Mar 1902, Anderson, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 22 Jun 1977, Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 75 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 3. Anderson, John Quinton, b. 18 Nov 1906, Anderson, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 3 May 1938, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 31 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 4. Anderson, Ruth Byrd, b. 22 Sep 1911, Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 8 Feb 2009, Waynesboro, Virginia (Age 97 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 5. Anderson, James Ezekiel, b. 2 Dec 1914, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 5 Jul 2005, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 90 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 6. Anderson, George Andrew Jr., b. 31 May 1916, Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 19 Jul 1995, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina (Age 79 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F2665 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
2 May 2024 |
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| Notes |
- George Andrew Anderson (1869-1945)
(click on photograph for larger image)
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Second Photograph: The above photograph of father and son can also be seen at: George Andrew Anderson and Son John Quinton Anderson.
Third Photograph: Garnett Cooper, Joe Powell, George Anderson (with cane). Two males behind George Anderson have not been identified.
Fifth Photograph: Anderson Family of Caswell County North Carolina, About 1928. Bottom Row L to R: James Ezekiel Anderson, Ruth Byrd Anderson Howze, George Andrew Anderson Jr. Top Row L to R: John Quintin Anderson, George Andrew Anderson, Mary Elizabeth Slade Anderson, Kenneth Gordon Anderson, Myrtle Lee Smith Anderson, Mary Slade Anderson Horton, William Banks Horton.
Sixth Photograph: Caswell County Clerk of Superior Court 1930s. Left to Right: Ruth Byrd Anderson; Clerk George Andrew Anderson; Mary Slade Anderson Horton; and Caswell County Sheriff John Yancey Gatewood. The two ladies are daughters of Clerk Anderson. Photograph provided to the Caswell County Historical Association by Maud Florance Gatewood, daughter of Caswell County Sheriff John Yancey Gatewood.
Final Photograph: George Anderson Pushed and Fell. The Bee (Danville, Virginia), 26 March 1942.
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Clerk of Court's Office (1930s).George Andrew Anderson and Son John Quinton Anderson
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George A. Anderson was born into a family that has lived in Caswell County for over 200 years. He was reared on the family plantation at Anderson in the southern part of Caswell County. Anderson Township was named for his grandfather, Quinton Anderson, a merchant, legislator, and businessman who built large agricultural holdings. George A. Anderson was Caswell County Superintendent of Schools for seventeen years, a newspaper editor, and Clerk of Superior Court for eight years. His published books include a history of Caswell County in World War I and biographies of Caswell statesmen Bartlett Yancey and Bedford Brown. Anderson School was named for him. His father was Dr. John Q. Anderson who practiced medicine in Caswell County for fifty years.
In 1905 George A. Anderson purchased the Paul A. Haralson House in Yanceyville, which remains in the Anderson family today. See Paul A. Haralson for more on the man who built this house, locally known for many years as the Clerk's House.
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History of the Poteat One-Room School (Caswell County, North Carolina.
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George A. Anderson 1914 Stephens Killing Letter
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In October 1921, George Andrew Anderson moved his family to Pelham, Caswell County, North Carolina. He is to be principal of the Pelham Graded School. Source: Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, NC), 5 Oct 1921.
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The Bee (Danville, Virginia) 6 December 1926 (Page 12)
Col. Anderson Is Sworn In As Clerk of Caswell Court (Special to the Bee)
Yanceyville, N. C. Dec. 6 (1926) The Caswell county Superior court opened this morning with a heavy docket and with three homicide cases expected to be called. There are a number of other cases and witnesses, defendants and attorneys made up a substantial crowd to attend the court session. This morning marked the induction into office of George Anderson, as clerk of the court, following his victory at the polls last fall. Mr. Anderson is widely known throughout Caswell county for his administration of the schools during an earlier day. He was at one time in the newspaper business in Danville and is probably one of the best known citizens of Caswell county. Col. Anderson qualified for his new duties this morning and it is expected will make an efficient and business-like clerk of the court.
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The Registration of June 5, 1917
The Governor of North Carolina issued an order that R. L. Mitchelle, Clerk of Superior Court, T. N. Fitch, Sheriff, and Dr. S. A. Malloy proceed immediately to register men for military services. This order directed the enrollment of all men aged twenty-one years to thirty-one years inclusive. The Board, as above constituted, with promptness and dispatch obeyed orders. A day was set in each precinct of the county and registrars appointed for the respective precincts to enroll men between the ages stated above. We append a list of registrars:
Anderson Precinct: H. J. Hurdle, W. E. Simmons.
Dan River Precinct: J. A. White.
Locust Hill Precinct : J. F. White Jr., J. B. Watlington.
Milton Precinct: M. C. Winstead.
Semora Precinct: W. O. Smith.
Ridgeville Precinct: W. L. Compton.
Hightowers Precinct: W. H. Warren.
Leasburg Precinct: S. P. Newman.
Pelham Precinct: J. O. Fitzgerald.
Stoney Creek Precinct: J. B. Turner and L. L. Lambeth.
Yanceyville Precinct: Julius Johnson, Alvis Florance.
These gentlemen discharged their duty as registrars in the most capable manner, and the registration of Caswell was so complete that the officers of this registration were highly commended. The registration cards were promptly returned to the Board, there being 1,011 cards.
It was then necessary that a duplicate copy be made of these cards. The following persons offered gratuitous services and assisted in the copying of the cards: Miss Ruby Mitchelle, J. A. White; T. H. Hatchett; W. M. Burton; George A. Anderson.
Source: Anderson, George A., Compiler. Caswell County in the World War 1917-1918. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1921.
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May 15, 1927 (Possibly The Caswell Messenger)
The Old Home Place of the Anderson's Burned: Was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Otis Reagan and Family. Fire Occurred Sunday Morning.
A fire, which occurred last Sunday morning during the preaching hour, completely destroyed the old Anderson home, owned by George A. Anderson and located in Anderson Township, together with all the household effects and personal belongings of Otis Reagan and family who have been living at the Anderson place.
Both from the financial and sentimental standpoints the fire caused a great loss. The house itself was partially covered by insurance. But the insurance coverage will not begin to replace the large, old 12-room building. It has not been learned whether or not Mr. Reagan had any insurance on his household goods. But it is certain that his loss is great, in which he has the sympathy of many friends.
But the destruction of this famous old southern home, built by Quinton Anderson in 1820, and kept in the Anderson family for three generations is irreparable when the sentiment, traditions and historical associations that have gathered about the place are considered.
It is said that Quinton Anderson was a prominent politician and that many distinguished men have been entertained within its portals. So it can be confidently asserted that what is commonly known as history was made about its blazing hearths and around its hospitable table. No amount of money and effort of the skilled artisan or artist can restore such a structure, rich in historic traditions, any more than the old table, benches and flagons used at the "Cheshire Cheese" by Dr Johnson and his contemporaries could be reproduced be modern mechanism and art.
Aside from this the old house had been HOME to three or four generations. This fact has hallowed the house and the memory of it, to every one who has warmed himself and herself by its fire places, slept in its beds, played about its doors, eaten at its table, looked out on the landscapes from its windows and sat on its porches on summer nights beneath the star-domed canopy, looking to heaven, dreaming of the ages, past, present and to come. In this home the youngsters were cuddled in the arms of the mother who rocked them to sleep as she sang the old plantation melodies or crooned to them the eternal songs of mother love. The problems of all homes were entertained and settled there as the growing children trooped in and out of its open doors. The old fashioned parlor was the scene of many a courtship. Matches were made and unmade there. Gala days filled with high spirited romance {and} adventure come both ceremoniously and un-ceremoniously, to that home. Mother(s) hearts were torn in that sacred place called home, and mothers heads were bowed in agonizing grief when the fledglings of the house spread their wings and flitted from the old home and left father and mother to sit with empty hands about a lonely hearth. And it was from the front door of the old home place that the still forms of the sacred dead were borne by sympathizing neighbors and placed tenderly under the cedars in gods acre.
It is true that a fire cannot destroy all the hallowed association and memories of a home. But the house about which they have clustered comes in time, to be a sacred place. And the disappearance of such an ancient edifice is sometimes next akin to tragedy to those who for several generations have known it as home.
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George Anderson was the first U.S. Postmaster at Anderson, Caswell County, North Carolina, which operated from 29 April 1892 until 31 January 1906. Earlier, the post office was named Anderson's Store, with Quinton Anderson as the first postmaster.
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The following is from Anderson, George A., Compiler. Caswell County in the World War, 1917-1918: Service Records of Caswell County Men. Raleigh (North Carolina): Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1921:
Foreword
The Board of County Commissioners of Caswell County, C. H. King, J. M. Williams, and T. H. Hatchett, requested that I should write a character sketch of as many as possible of the Caswell soldiers who took part in the Great World War. This Board felt that it was fitting that some record should be made. In the sketches which follow I have tried in a very humble way to carry out the wishes of these gentlemen, but I wish to express my very great regret that I have been unable to secure full information which would. have enabled me to write a sketch of each boy who participated.
This work has been a labor of love on my part, and has been done without compensation. I have completed as many sketches as I could, and I very much hope that some one may be able to secure a service record of the boys whose names do not appear which may be added in a future book.
May I not leave on record this statement? I saw our boys go forth to battle. They were of the finest kind; strong of muscle, clear of mind, and true of vision. They made for themselves a record of fidelity and courage. They did their duty like men, and, while my sketches are not ornate, and, while they show only in a very humble way the record, still I feel very grateful that I have had the honor to help preserve for future generations their names and activities.
Sincerely,
George A. Anderson
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Through a Glass Darkly
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In June 1924 a large rally was held at Yanceyville, North Carolina, to host the Governors of North Carolina and Virginia, Executives and Members of the North Carolina Highway Commission, and guests from South America. The purpose was to tour and inspect roads recently completed (principally by Nello Teer) in that section of North Carolina. Expected were between four and five thousand people from Caswell and adjoining counties, with fully two thousand automobiles. Five hundred cars will convey the party and followers from Greensboro over the hard road to Reidsville where the visitors paused for a short time before going to Yanceyville on the Rockingham and Caswell road which was recently completed.
R. L. Mitchell [Robert Lee Mitchell] and R. S. Graves [Robert Sterling Graves] were the Yanceyville hosts, with a barbecue dinner served "in the grove of the R. S. Graves homestead ["Dongola"]. Over two thousand pounds of pork, mutton, beef and chicken" was arranged for the barbecue with all the trimmings. After dinner had been served, George Anderson formerly superintendent of Caswell County schools delivered an address of welcome. After the Yanceyville entertainment was over the whole party proceeded on Route No. 62 to Baynes Store and then to Hightowers to was the actual construction of roads.
The Bee (Danville, VA), 2 June 1924, Monday, Pages 1 & 3.
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Baseball, BBQ, and Politics in Caswell County: 1904
Saturday will be a notable day at Bayne's Store, Caswell County. There will be a free dinner and barbecue; a reunion of Confederate Veterans to be addressed by General Julian S. Carr; a baseball game between Corbett and Stony Creek teams. Prof. W. T. Whitsett will deliver an address on education; and political addresses will be made by Hon. Robert. B. Glenn, North Carolina's greatest orator and our next Governor, and by Hon. H. A. Foushee, "the silver-tongue speaker of Durham," and by the county candidates.
The day will begin with the baseball match game at 8:30 a.m. The great meetings of the day are under the management of a committee composed of Dr. J. Alex. Pinnix, chairman; George Anderson, secretary; and Julius Johnson [Johnston].
The News and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), 27 September 1904.
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Dr. John Alexander Pinnix, M.D. (1846-1931)
George Andrew Anderson (1869-1945)
Julius Johnston (1856-1914)
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Julian Shakespeare Carr (October 12, 1845 - April 29, 1924) was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and white supremacist. He is the namesake of the town of Carrboro, North Carolina.
Julian Carr played an essential role in bolstering white supremacy in North Carolina during the era of Jim Crow. He publicly endorsed the Ku Klux Klan, opposed the 15th Amendment (1870) giving the vote to African-American men, and promoted racial unrest and turmoil in the late 19th century to defeat an interracial "Fusion" political party.
Carr promoted his racial views through the News & Observer newspaper, which he bought, setting up white supremacist Josephus Daniels as its editor. He celebrated the Wilmington Massacre of 1898, in which an elected government was overthrown by force (the only such incident in American history), and where at least 60 black North Carolinians were murdered. In numerous speeches, he suggested that African Americans were better off enslaved and celebrated violence, even lynching, against black citizens.
Source: Wikipedia
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Caswell County Board of Health: 1911
Yanceyville, April 6 [1911] -- "The county board of health, as created by the last General Assembly, met in the office of the superintendent of schools Monday. The board is composed of the following gentlemen: J. S. Harvey, chairman; Geo. A. Anderson, secretary, and B. S. Graves. In compliance of the law, Dr. J. A. Pinnix, of Anderson township, and Dr. J. F. Badgett, of Locust Hill township, were elected as additional members. The board will meet again on the second Monday in May at which time the county superintendent of health will be elected."
The Reidsville Review (Reidsville, North Carolina), 7 April 1911, Friday, Page 1.
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This is the first mention found of the Caswell County Board of Health. The newly created group selected as the County Superintendent of Health Dr. Stephen Arnold Malloy, M.D. (1872-1944).
J. S. Harvey most likely is John Shields Harvey (1864-1935). In 1911 he apparently was living in Pelham Township, Caswell County, NC.
Geo. A. Anderson is George Andrew Anderson (1869-1945).
B. S. Graves is Barzillai Shuford Graves (1854-1942).
Dr. J. A. Pinnix is Dr. John Alexander Pinnix, M.D. (1846-1931).
Dr. J. F. Badgett is Dr. James Farish Badgett, M.D. (1855-1933).
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Photograph: Undated image of the Caswell County Health Department building. Caswell Knitting Mills Inc. is in the background. According to Bill Powell's History of Caswell County, in 1970 a "new" Health Department Building was built.
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Robert Ira Newman (1854-1934)
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The following is from The Leasburg I Knew, William S. Dixon (April 28, 1968):
North from the Connally's, on a knoll, in a beautiful grove of oaks, was the R. I. (Bob) Newman home. Here the school teacher roomed and boarded. It was convenient for the one-room school house was not more than a couple of hundred yards away. There were two sons, Rob and John -- John was another of my boyhood friends, and there were still four of the pretty daughters at home -- five including Evie, who married my Uncle Jerry and thus became one of my favorite aunts.
See also: Dixon Family Website; 1870 US Census; and Dixon Family Tree.
Note that the obituary of his wife, Nannie Green Pulliam, referred to a surviving son named R. P. Newman of Leasburg. This may Robert Pulliam Newman.
History of the Poteat One-Room School (Caswell County, North Carolina.
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In 1914, was a member of the Caswell County Board of Education (along with J. B. Turner and L. A. Gwynn). George A. Anderson was Superintendent of Schools.
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Caswell County Board of Education: 1911
Yanceyville, April 6 [1911] -- "The county board of education was in session Monday, Messrs. C. H. King, chairman, T. J. Hatchett and R. I Newman being in attendance. A large amount of routine business was transacted and settlement was made with the county treasurer. Superintendent Anderson submitted a report on the general condition of the school work. The report indicates that the session just closed was the most satisfactory one in years."
The Reidsville Review (Reidsville, North Carolina), 7 April 1911, Friday, Page 1.
C. H. King is Cary Howard King (1864-1959).
T. J. Hatchett most likely is Thomas Jackson Hatchett (1866-1932).
R. I. Newman most likely is Robert Ira Newman (1854-1934).
Superintendent Anderson is George Andrew Anderson (1869-1945).
It appears the Caswell County Board of Education was created in 1885 with George Nicholas Thompson (1832-1891) serving as the first superintendent:
"In June, 1885, W. W. Taylor, Henry F. Brandon, and Gabriel L. Walker were elected to the Board of Education for Caswell County and in July they met and organized. George N. Thompson was Superintendent of Public Instruction and he acted as clerk of the board. In the fall the board appointed three committmen for each of the school districts and the following year it was reported that the number of schools for both races had been increased. There were 35 for whites and 37 for blacks. An additional school district had recently been created bringing the total number to 37. The average salary for white teachers was less than $27.00 a month and for black teachers it was about $24.00."
Source: Powell, William S. "When the Past Refused to Die: A History of Caswell County North Carolina 1777-1977." Durham (North Carolina): Moore Publishing Company, 1977, pp. 383-388.
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Grave Marker
Inscription
Anderson
George Andrew
Anderson
Nov. 30, 1869 - May 17, 1945
Sleep Sweetly Tender Heart in Peace
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1930 US Census
Name: George A Anderson
Age: 59
Estimated birth year: abt 1871
Birthplace: North Carolina
Relation to head-of-house: Head
Spouse's Name: Mary E Anderson
Race: White
Home in 1930: Yanceyville, Caswell, North Carolina
Death Record
Name: George A. Anderson
Death Date: 18 May 1945 [17 May 1945 on gravestone]
Death County: Caswell
Death State: North Carolina
Death Age: 75
Birth Date: abt. 1870
Race: W
Source: Ancestry.com. North Carolina Death Collection, 1908-1996 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005
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- Details: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 89 (Article #16 "George A. Anderson").
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