Jackson County AlArchives Biographies.....Anderson, John H. June 17 1847 - living in 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 27, 2004, 6:24 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) JOHN H. ANDERSON, lumber merchant of Bridgeport, Ala., was born in Monroe county, Ind., near Smithville, June 17, 1847. Leaving school at the age of sixteen, he remained one year on the farm, and then entered the naval service of the United States in August, 1863, and was assigned to the monitor, Milwaukee, and served on this vessel thirteen months until she was blown up by a torpedo in Mobile bay. He was then assigned to the man of-war, Genesee, and served on her three months, and he was then assigned to service on a pilot sloop, on which he served until the war closed. While on the Milwaukee he was in the engagement on Mobile bay when Spanish fort and. other forts were bombarded. On board the Genesee the bombardment continued after the Milwaukee was sunk. He was messenger during all his term of service. When Mobile surrendered he was on board the pilot sloop, and he remained on this sloop until July, 1865, when he was discharged. He was slightly wounded in the foot while on the Milwaukee. After the war was over he went to Nashville, Tenn., and remained there three months: He then returned to his home in Indiana and worked on the farm three years. He next went into the lumber business in Monroe county, Ind., and continued in that business there for a year, and then removed to Shelbyville, Tenn., where he established himself in the lumber business and carried it on for three and a half years,. He was then in the same business two years in Scottsboro, Ala., next at Stevenson two years, and he then settled down in Bridgeport, Ala., in 1888, where he still remains. Besides his lumber business he contracts for the erection of factory buildings, and he also has farming and milling interests at Idalia, Mo. Mr. Anderson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He was married in July; 1866, to Susannah Knott, daughter of Albert F. Knott, of Tennessee, to which marriage there were born five children, four of whom survive, viz.: Frazier A., Fanny M., William E., and Edgar T. Charles M. Anderson, the father of John H. Anderson, was born in North Carolina, and removed to Indiana when a young man. He was a Methodist preacher. He married Margaret F. Petree, who now (1892) lives in Monroe county, Ind. To his marriage there were born six children, of whom two daughters died unmarried, and four children survive, viz.: John H., Ellen R., wife of N. M. Stipp, of Bedford, Ind., Emma C., and Margaret, wife of John S. Keller, of Monroe county, Ind. Rev. Charles M. Anderson died in February, 1881. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1131-1132 Published by Brant & Fuller (1893) Madison, WI This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb