HONORED PRINCETON COUPLE
OBSERVE GOLDEN WEDDING
[Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Anderson]
Courier
June 25, 1925
Mr. and Mrs. J.
L. Anderson, a respected old Princeton couple, observed their golden wedding
anniversary at Lake Worth near Forth Worth. Both of them are natives of
McNary county, Tennessee. Mr. Anderson was born there November 23, 1852
while his wife was born May 12, 1855. Her maiden name was Mary A. Stewart.
They were united in marriage in Arkansas county, Arkansas, June 25, 1875 by
Squire Walls.
The Stewart
family left Tennessee for Arkansas in the year 1860. The Anderson family did
not leave Tennessee until 13 years later, going to the same county in
Arkansas in the year of 1873.
J. L. Anderson,
wife and their first baby, left Arkansas for Texas in 1877, settling in Red
River county where they resided until 1884 when they moved to Collin county
and settled in the Verona community. They were accompanied from Arkansas to
Red River county by John S. Stewart, brother of Mrs. Anderson, wife and
baby. The two families made the trip from Arkansas to Red River county
Texas, in an ox wagon.
Mr. and Mrs.
Anderson resided on their farm in the Verona community until 1906 when they
moved to Tioga, Texas, for the benefit of Mrs. Anderson's health. After
residing at Tioga for five years they moved to their present home in
Princeton. They own several hundred acres of land between Princeton and
Verona.
Mr. Anderson is
a successful farmer and business man. They reared a fine family of children
as follows: F. H. Anderson, a merchant of Frisco, Texas; R. R. Anderson, a
Princeton business man; Mrs. John Turner of Detroit, Red River county,
Texas; Mrs. John K. Wilson, wife of a Princeton merchant, and Mrs. C. J.
Thomason, of Waxahachie, Texas. The last named two daughters are twins. One
son, James Anderson, died at the family home in the Verona community in the
year 1904 at the age of twenty-five.
Mrs. Anderson's
brother who came to Texas with them, John S. Stewart, is a prominent
business man and banker of Blue Ridge, this county. J. L. Anderson is rated
as among the substantial and successful citizens of our county. He is a man
of solid integrity and much influence in his section of our county.
Mr. and Mrs.
Anderson have the best wishes of a very wide circle of friends and
acquaintances on the attainment of their golden wedding anniversary. All
wish for them many more years of health and marital happiness.
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Recommended Citation:
"HONORED PRINCETON COUPLE OBSERVE
GOLDEN WEDDING, EARLY SETTLERS OF COLLIN COUNTY." Collin County, Texas History
and Genealogy Webpage by Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
[Accessed Fri February 13, 2004 ].
