Ashley Wood Spaight Anderson
b. July 1849, d. between 1900 and 1910
- Father: James A. Anderson b. 17 November 1818, d. 1 June 1857
- Mother: Virginia Elizabeth McCullers Speight b. 16 December 1825, d. 30 June 1871
- Ashley Wood Spaight Anderson was born in July 1849 in Alabama named for his mother's brother Ashley Wood Spaight.
- 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.
- Thomas Colley Thomas and Virginia Elizabeth McCullers Speight appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Clinton, Greene County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Ashley Wood Spaight Anderson, James Cameron Anderson, M. Georgia V. Thomas, Matilda M. Wood, James George and Alexander Ellerbe English.
- Ashley Wood Spaight Anderson appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Richland Township, Philipps County, Arkansas, enumerated in the household of Samuel and Cora Pippen. Samuel C. Pippen, a few years older than Ashley, is found in the 1850 and 1860 censuses also living with his family in Greene County, Alabama, but any further connection is not yet known.
- He was a farmer, according to the 1870 census.
- He married Sarah M. Jones, daughter of James M. Jones, on 17 December 1872.
- Ashley Wood Spaight Anderson and Sarah M. Jones appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Clinton, Greene County, Alabama. Other members of the household included M. Georgia V. Thomas, John Crowder Thomas and George Landon Clanton Jr.
- He was a farmer, according to the 1880 census.
- According to an 1893 publication, he "owns and manages a fine plantation of 1,000 acres, four miles north of Clinton [in Greene County], which is in a high state of cultivation. . . . His plantation adjoins the old homestead, which in the division of the estate, fell to his brother.
- Ashley Wood Spaight Anderson and Sarah M. Jones appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Clinton, Greene County, Alabama, He was the enumerator for this census.
- He was a farmer, according to the 1900 census.
- Ashley Wood Spaight Anderson died between 1900 and 1910.
- His wife Sarah M. Jones became a widow at his death.
- Last Edited: 15 Sep 2009