James A. Anderson

b. 17 November 1818, d. 1 June 1857
  • James A. Anderson was born on 17 November 1818 in South Carolina.
  • He married Virginia Elizabeth McCullers Speight, daughter of John Speight and Matilda M. Wood, on 24 January 1842 in Dallas County, Alabama.
  • Interesting that James A. Anderson's sister Jane Sophronia's husband was the brother if Minor Darius Wynne, whose daughter Margaret Elizabeth married Robert Cummings Wood, a grandson of Ashley Wood's half-brother Green Wood.
  • James A. Anderson and Virginia Elizabeth McCullers Speight appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Greene County, Alabama, Also in the household was William Anderson, age 50, born South Carolina.. Other members of the household included Ashley Wood Spaight Anderson.
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1850 census.
  • James A. Anderson died on 1 June 1857 at age 38 in Greene County, Alabama.
  • His wife Virginia Elizabeth McCullers Speight became a widow at his death.
  • He was interred at Mount Zion Cemetery, Akron, Hale County, Alabama.
  • Last Edited: 8 May 2013

Family: Virginia Elizabeth McCullers Speight b. 16 December 1825, d. 30 June 1871