Greene County AlArchives Biographies.....Anderson, A. W. S. ? - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    A. W. S. ANDERSON, one of the progressive farmers of Greene county, was born
in Hale county. He is a son of James and Virginia (Spaight) Anderson, the former
of whom was a native of Dallas county, and the latter of Hale county, Ala. James
A. Anderson was an extensive planter, owning 150 slaves before the war, and
dying in 1857. His father was one of the earliest settlers of Alabama, emigrated
from North Carolina to the state in 1818. He was also a farmer by occupation. On
the other side of the family, grandfather Spaight came from North Carolina in
the early history of the country, locating near Selma, but afterward moving to
Hale county, where he died at about the age of thirty-five. His widow died in
Greene county, aged fifty-eight. James A. Anderson and wife were the parents of
two children, viz.: A. W. S., and J. C. Anderson, a resident of Eutaw, and
ex-mayor, having served several terms, and now one of the aldermen of the town.
Mrs. Anderson was married a second time to Thomas C. Thomas, by whom two
children were born, viz.: Georgia and John. She died in March, 1870. A. W. S.
Anderson is a member of one of the oldest families of the state. His maternal
grandmother was the mother of twelve children, nine of whom were living at her
death. The Andersons were a plain, honest and industrious people of Scotch and
Irish extraction, while the Spaights were a progressive, intelligent and
distinguished people, closely allied with the political isssues of their times.
Mrs. Anderson was a lineal descendant of Richard Dauf Spaight, one of the
original signers of the confederation between the colonies. A. W. S. Anderson is
named after his uncle, A. W. Spaight, of Galveston, Tex., who was commissioner
of statistics, insurance and history under Gov. Ireland, and who was sent by the
state of Texas to the Paris exposition of 1889. A. W. S. Anderson was married
December 17, 1872, to Mrs. Sarah M. Clanton, widow of George L. Clanton. She is
the mother of one child by her former marriage, viz.: George L. Clanton, Jr. Mr.
Anderson owns and manages a fine plantation of 1,000 acres, four miles north of
Clinton, which is in a high state of cultivation. Upon this farm he has a modern
six-room cottage, surrounded by handsome grounds and embellished by flowers,
shrubs and ornamental trees. He makes a speciality of fruits, and has every
variety known to this climate. His plantation adjoins the old homestead, which
in the division of the estate, fell to his brother. Mr. Anderson represented
Greene county during the years 1882 to 1883, and 1886 to 1887. In 1890 he was
sent as a delegate to the inter-state farmers' congress that met at Council
Bluffs, Iowa. In 1886 he was a delegate to Atlanta, Ga., in the interests of the
same institution. Both Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are members of the Ebenezer church,
at Clinton, and he is an elder. Mr. Anderson is one of the leading men in the
county in talent, public spirit and enterprise.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1042-1043
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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