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Vol V File 5: The Genealogy of Genevieve Simmons James

• 1. Robert Gilmore Anderson, Sr, born April 15, 1782, in Kentucky(?), died May 21, 1841, in Nacodoches County, Texas. He married October 28, 1802, Rebecca Fry, born June 6, 1784, died October 3, 1819. He was one of the early pioneers to settle in Section 17, St. Jacob Township, Madison County, Illinois, in 1816. This early settlement was made along the timber's edge, on the east side of Silver Creek, by hardy pioneers from Kentucky and Tennessee, in 1810. In 1812 it was necessary, because of hostility from the Indians, to built a fort or stockade, but it was never attacked. They had the following children:
  
  • 1. James Gilmore Anderson, born August 15, 1803, died in September, 1847, in St. Jacob Township, Madison County, Illinois married September 15, 1823, Hannah McAdams. He was the first blacksmith of St. Jacob Township, Madison County, Illinois. He, with a William Faires, a woodworker, made wagons and the wooden mould-board plow for the early settlers. (Ref: "Centennial History of Madison County, Illinois and Its People, From 1812 to 1912," compiled by W. T. Norton, Alton, IL., dated 1912, Chapter LXXIII., pp. 587-588.) He served as Major of the regiment in the Black Hawk War, and was a respected citizen and a member of the County Commissioners Board at the time of his death in September, 1847.

  • 2. Nancy Anderson, born November 8, 1805. See below.

  • 3. William P. Anderson, born January 18, 1806.

  • 4. Robert Gilmore Anderson, Jr., born July 27, 1810, died December 21, 1956. married June 20, 1833, Judith Ann Ligon, born February 3, 1815, in Tennessee or Virginia (?), died November 29, 1896, in Tehuacana, Limestone County, Texas. [Can this be a relative from the Lygon family?] They had the following children:
    
    • 1. William Robert Anderson, born May 21, 1834, died January 3, 1917, in Burnett, Burnett County, Texas, married Emily Muckleroy.

    • 2. Emily Ligon Anderson, born May 21, 1836. No other data.

    • 3. Miranda Ligon Anderson, born July 9, 1838, died February 1, 1891, married on December 20, 1856, Hayden Arnold.

    • 4. James Finis Anderson, born September 8, 1843, died December 1, 1846.
      

  • 5. Sallie Anderson, born January 1, 1813. No other data available.
    

• 2. Nancy Anderson, born November 8, 1805, in Bourbon County, Kentucky, died December 11, 1887, in Dallas County, Texas, buried in Wheatland Cemetery, Dallas County, married on June 8, 1825, John Penn, born March 16, 1804, in what is now Murray, Georgia. He died December 1, 1871, in Pana, Christian County, Illinois, and is buried at Linwood Cemetery, near Pana, Illinois. John Penn divorced Nancy Anderson and married on April 19, 1867, (2) Sarah E. Crow.
  

  See the continuation of this lineage under the Penn Line.
  

• 1. Thomas Pettus, born 1475, in Norwich, co. Norfolk, England, married in 1495, in Norwich, ____________, born in 1479, in Norwich. They had a son, John.

• 2. John Pettus, born in 1496, in Norwich, co. Norfolk, died August 28, 1558, in Norwich, buried in St. Simon's and St. Jude's Church, Norwich. He married in 1522, in co. Norfolk, (1) Joan __________, born in 1500. John is reported in "Virginia Families" as "an opulent citizen of Norwich, who was buried in St. Edmund's, Lombard Street, London. They had six children as follows:
  
  • 1. Thomas Pettus. See below.

  • 2. Agnes Pettus, born about 1525, in Norwich, co. Norfolk, England.

  • 3. Jone(?) Pethous(?), born about 1525.

  • 4. Anne Pethous, born about 1527.

  • 5. Jone Pettus, born in 1528.
    

    He also married about 1529, (2) Cicelye Capon, and married about 1543, (3) Beatrice _________.

• 3. Sir Thomas Pettus, born in 1523, in Norwich, died January 7, 1597, in Norwich. He was Mayor of Norwich in 1591. He married Christian Dethickdaughter of Simon Detick, Esq., of North Elmham, Norfolk.

• 4. Cecily Pettus, born in 1560, in Norwich, married September 13, 1581, in Norwich, Humphrey Camden, born in 1562. They had a daughter, Susan.

• 5. Susan Camden, married Henry Pendleton.
  

  See continuation of this lineage in the Pendleton Line.
  

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