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Caswell County Genealogy
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 1820 - 1899 (79 years)
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| Name |
Anderson, John Quinton [1] |
| Title |
Dr. |
| Suffix |
M.D. |
| Birth |
8 Apr 1820 |
Caswell County, North Carolina  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reference Number |
5537 |
| Death |
8 Jul 1899 |
Anderson, Caswell County, North Carolina |
| Burial |
Bethel Christian Church, Caswell County, North Carolina |
| Person ID |
I5461 |
Caswell County |
| Last Modified |
2 May 2024 |
| Father |
Anderson, Quinton, b. 6 Feb 1783 d. 20 Nov 1854 (Age 71 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Bird, Susannah, b. 28 Mar 1784 d. 19 Jan 1836, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 51 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
20 Feb 1810 |
Orange County, North Carolina |
| Reference Number |
40819 |
| Notes |
- North Carolina Marriage Bonds Index
Name: Quinton Anderson
Gender: Male
Spouse: Susannah Bird
Spouse Gender: Female
Bond Date: 20 Feb 1810
Bond #: 000094463
Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
ImageNum: 000657
County: Orange
Record #: 01 009
Bondsman: Jehu Bird; W A Whitted
Witness: J Taylor
Household Members
Name Age
Name: Quinton Anderson
Name: Susannah Bird
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| Family ID |
F1759 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Rice, Minerva Isabella, b. 24 Dec 1836, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 18 Apr 1903, Anderson Township, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 66 years) |
| Marriage |
16 Dec 1863 |
Caswell County, North Carolina |
| Reference Number |
40979 |
| Children |
| + | 1. Anderson, Mary Helen, b. 14 Sep 1864, North Carolina d. 25 Mar 1933, Danville, Virginia (Age 68 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 2. Anderson, Susan Bird, b. 16 Sep 1867, North Carolina d. 1901 (Age 33 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 3. Anderson, George Andrew, b. 30 Nov 1869, Anderson, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 17 May 1945, Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 75 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: Stepchild] |
| + | 4. Anderson, Sarah Isabelle, b. 6 Jun 1877 d. 4 Jul 1951 (Age 74 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F2740 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
2 May 2024 |
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| Notes |
- John Quinton Anderson (1820-1899)
(click on photograph for larger image)
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Name variously seem as Quinton and Quentin.
The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 90 (Article # 18 "Some Grandchildren of John Anderson" by James E. & Sallie P. Anderson)
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The following is a transcript of a story written by George Andrew Anderson in 1943, about his father, John Quinton:
Dr. John Quinton Anderson, my father, was the most handsome man that I ever saw. He had a massive figure, straight as an American Indian. His eyes were keen and bright. He wore a beard on his chin which he always trimmed with scrupulous neatness. He always was neat in his personal appearance, and when he came riding down the lane at the old Anderson homestead, astride his gray horse Medley, he looked the very incarnation of Robert E. Lee. His ancestors came from the highlands of Scotland and he inherited all the fearlessness of the scottish blood. He was a man of the finest culture and to this he added his native refinement. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania, he began the practice of medicine at the age of 21, and for more than fifty years he rode his horse over the red hills of Caswell.
His was a practice of great success and he attained a wonderful popularity. He volunteered as a surgeon in the Civil War, however this service was refused by Governor Zebulon Vance, who told him that, "Dr. Anderson, your place is up there in Caswell where you may give attention to the returning Confederate soldiers, their widows or orphans." He gave this service without a let or utterance. He loved the home life and was never happier than when he sat under the big oaks at Anderson or joined in the chase for the wily foxes, which ran in south Caswell.
While the most prudent of his kind, still he was the most fearless man that I ever knew. To him, fear was a stranger. There is a story representing this in Reconstruction days. General George T. Kirke, of infamous memory, found his way with his army to Anderson one night in the seventies. My father had been out late that night giving service to one of his patients and when he returned home, he was informed by my mother that General Kirke and Lieutenant Burgin was in the chamber upstairs. Then this incident occured. It was at breakfast hour and the two soldiers sat down to their morning meal. General Kirke competently sipped his coffee and turning to Lieutenant Burgin, said, "Don't you detect something unusual about this coffee?
Something in the aroma or the taste that suggests burnt almonds or peach kernals." My father became infuriated and thundered, "you need not speculate sir, for there is enough prussic acid in that cup of coffee to kill every cut throat in your army." Then General Kirke rose to his proudest height and said, "In proof, sir, of the confidence I hold in your statement, I drink to our health." And he quaffed the cup. He was nearly 80 years old when he died, a wonderfully perserved man.
His death was full of the sweetest pathos. He died so peacfully, and with a smile on his face he passed to the great beyond. We had called in Dr. John McCauley who was a life-long friend and associate of my father. He stood at the foot of the bed. He saw that my father was rapidly passing and then while he watched him die, repeated those well known lines of Burns:
"John Anderson, my jo John,
We clamb the hill tho gither,
And many a canty John.
We've had both one and hither,
But now we maun totter down, John.
But hand in hand we'll go
And rest together at the foot,
John Anderson, my jo."
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Included in the 1840-1841 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine class were eight students from Caswell County, North Carolina.
Catalogue of the Trustees of the Trustees, Officers, & Students
of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Medical Class - Session 1840-41.
Matriculants.
Anderson, John Q. (Caswell, North Carolina)
Collins, Allen T. (Caswell, North Carolina)
Currie, Shelby S. (Caswell, North Carolina)
Price, James A. (Caswell, North Carolina)
Walker, James C. (Caswell, North Carolina)
Watt, William M. (Caswell, North Carolina)
Wright, Weldon E. (Caswell, North Carolina)
Yancey, Albert G. (Yanceyville, North Carolina)
For more, see: University of Pennsylvania.
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- Details: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 90 (Article # 18 "Some Grandchildren of John Anderson" by James E. & Sallie P. Anderson).
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