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Margaret Elvira Reid Anderson

Birth	:	1826 Henderson County, North Carolina, USA
Death	:	1 Jun 1922 Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA
Burial	:	Holly Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Henderson County, USA
Coordinate	:	35.2406960, -82.5968940
Description	:	The headstone reads birth date as 1828 and death date as 1924 but we have proof (below) that she did die in 1922. Follow your heart for the date you prefer. North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1975 about Mrs M E Andeson Name: Mrs M E Andeson Gender: Female Race: White Age: 96 Birth Date: abt 1826 Birth Place: Henderson, North Carolina, United States Death Date: 1 Jun 1922 Death Location: Hendersonville 45, Henderson Spouse's Name: John Andeson Father's Name: Mr Reed Mother's Name: M Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: North Carolina State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics. North Carolina Death Certificates.... Read More	The headstone reads birth date as 1828 and death date as 1924 but we have proof (below) that she did die in 1922. Follow your heart for the date you prefer. North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1975 about Mrs M E Andeson Name: Mrs M E Andeson Gender: Female Race: White Age: 96 Birth Date: abt 1826 Birth Place: Henderson, North Carolina, United States Death Date: 1 Jun 1922 Death Location: Hendersonville 45, Henderson Spouse's Name: John Andeson Father's Name: Mr Reed Mother's Name: M Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: North Carolina State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics. North Carolina Death Certificates. Microfilm S.123. Rolls 19-242, 280, 313-682, 1040-1297. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina. ---------------------------------------------- sandrafender49 originally found this document 18 Jul 2007 Transcribed from a copy of an article that appeared in the Times News, Hendersonville, N.C. in the year 1922. The copy was found in the library of the Henderson County Genealogical Society in Hendersonville, NC. LONG YEARS OF HISTORY CONNECTED BY LIFE OF MRS. JOHN REID ANDERSON On June 1, 1922, died Mrs. John Anderson, who was perhaps the oldest woman in Henderson County. She was born June 20, 1826, thus lacking about 20 days of being 96 years old, in what, was then Buncombe, now Henderson County, N.C. Her maiden name was Margaret Elvira Reid. Of her father she had no recollection, he having, as was supposed, been lost on a boat of which he was captain, plying between Savannah and Augusta on Savannah River. Her mother was of the families of Davidson and Williamson, distinguished in the early colonial history of North Carolina as the founders and first president of Davidson college. She was married in 1842 to John Anderson and was the mother of 12 children, all of whom except one which died in infancy, lived to be more than 30 years old. Her husband died in 1889, there never having been a death in their family during his lifetime. Except that of the infant above referred to. She was a member of the Holly springs Baptist Church and had been for more than half a century at the time of her death. Among her children were three ministers of the gospel, one is a lawyer, two were members of the North Carolina legislature, one in the house, one in the senate, and all were teachers in their young days. Of those children, five are living, the others are dead. The dead are Rev. E. M. Anderson[Enoch], Rev. J.W.[John Wesley] Anderson, Rev. W. L.[William Larkin] Anderson, Mrs. B.M. Shipman[Martha Louisa] and Mrs. N.S. Anderson. The living are T.C.[Thomas Columbus] Anderson, Mrs. W.S. Trammel[Lorena Ann], Mrs. V.C.V. Hamilton[Jane], H. S. [Henry Sherman] Anderson and Joel M. Anderson. She has living about 70 grandchildren and a number of great-grand children living, so far as can be ascertained in the following States and Countries: North and South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, Georgia, California, and Washington; British Columbia, Australia, Mexico and Cuba. She had, as far as can be ascertained, between 18 and 20 grandchildren and great grand children in the world war in various capacities, both in the Army and Navy, two of them were wounded, one for a long time supposed to have been killed. It is hard to realize what an important period of time such a long life covered. She might be said to have lived in two ages. The age of slow travel and the age of steam and electricity. At the time of her birth there was not a steam railroad in the world, no telegraph, and of course none of the later inventions that have revolutionized trade, travel and industry. She well remembered the time when deer were plentiful where flourishing towns now stand, where wolves howled at night when Kentucky, Ohio, and Alabama were frontier states, long before the city of Chicago was founded. When she was born Henderson was part of Buncombe County. She remembered well when there was hardly a house where Hendersonville now stands, and the excitement that arose over the location of the County Seat when Henderson County was made a separate county. In 1840 she made what was then a long and adventurous journey across the mountains in a wagon with her step father to Greenville, Tennessee passing through Asheville, which was then a village containing about thirty houses in all. There being a great political gathering when she was in Greenville she saw some of the famous men in the early history of Tennessee and the Republic. She remembered well seeing the great shower of meteors that fell in November 1833, spoken of by old people as the "Time when the stars fell". The log cabin and hard cider campaign of 1840 remained fresh in her memory. She also remembered when Andrew Jackson was President. She was grown, married and had children when the war with Mexico came on. Remembered seeing, and telling good-by to soldiers leaving for that war. She talked with Revolutionary soldiers who served under Washington and Greene, had a vivid impression of those commanders from descriptions of them given by soldiers. She was born fourteen days before the death of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, remembered when Victoria ascended the Throne of Great Britain and many other Historical events that now seem in the remote past. How such a long life connects us with the past. How it brings the reality of old times and old people home to us. Two such lives following each other would cover almost the entire span of our countries history, would go back to the year of 1730, two years before the birth of George Washington, Forty-six years before the Declaration of Independence. long before the seven year war that covered Europe much as the world war has done in our day, long before the French Revolution, the Napolionic wars, the next great convulsion. She retained her health and spirits in a remarkable way to the last. She had few of the infirmities of age, hair retained to the last threads of its raven blackness, Her eyes were still bright, her mind clear and she walked with a lively step. Except for defective hearing she seemed younger than many women of sixty. She was a simple, unostentatious Christian and though she often spoke with sorrow of evil practices and tendencies, she never gossiped or spoke evil of individuals. SUBMITTED BY: Dana Meeks (#46876679)

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Margaret Elvira Reid Anderson's memorial is located at: Holly Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Henderson County, USA.
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Margaret Elvira Reid Anderson death on 1 Jun 1922 in Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA
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Latitude: 35.2406960
Longitude: -82.5968940

Family Members:

Spouse

John Anderson

(1819 - 1889)

Children

Jane Anderson Hamilton

(1856 - 1943)

Lorena Anderson Trammell

(1860 - 1928)

Henry Sherman Anderson

(1864 - 1932)

Ulysses S Anderson

(1866 - 1899)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Holly Springs Baptist Church Cemetery
Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2406960, -82.5968940

2. Hoxit Family Cemetery
Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2409400, -82.5958000

3. Anderson Cemetery
Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2502000, -82.6002300

4. Sentell Cemetery
Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2593994, -82.6061020

5. Little River Baptist Church Cemetery
Penrose, Transylvania County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2425308, -82.6288071

6. Follies Cemeteries
Etowah, Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2660600, -82.5817900

7. McCall Cemetery
Transylvania County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2569008, -82.6268997

8. Crab Creek Church Cemetery
Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2536490, -82.5572710

9. Piney Grove Cemetery
Penrose, Transylvania County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2629800, -82.6318300

10. Crab Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2454987, -82.5476990

11. Thomas Cemetery
Transylvania County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2000008, -82.6007996

12. Osborne Cemetery
Penrose, Transylvania County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2546997, -82.6446991

13. Orr Cemetery
Transylvania County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2350006, -82.6489029

14. Moore Cemetery
Brevard, Transylvania County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2034000, -82.6230000

15. Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Etowah, Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2888985, -82.5999985

16. Sentell Family Cemetery
Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2752991, -82.5468979

17. Old Beulah Cemetery
Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2961006, -82.6082993

18. Thomas Fletcher Cemetery
Etowah, Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2969017, -82.5947037

19. Adriance Family Cemetery
Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2511700, -82.5238300

20. Enon Baptist Church Cemetery
Pisgah Forest, Transylvania County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2720330, -82.6635820

21. New French Broad Baptist Church Cemetery
Pisgah Forest, Transylvania County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2514820, -82.6729310

22. Brown Family Cemetery
Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2779600, -82.5336300

23. Harden Family Cemetery
Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2505100, -82.5191000

24. Saint Francis Chapel Memorial Garden
Henderson County, USA
Coordinate: 35.2641670, -82.5200440