Pike County  Georgia Obituaries - Francis Ellis Anderson 1879
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 The Christian Index
 February 20, 1879
 page 7, column 1
 
     Anderson - Mrs. Francis Anderson was born on the 17th day of January,
 1784, in the State of North Carolina.  She was the daughter of William and
 Francis Ellis.  Her mother's maiden name was Bagby, being a sister of
 George Bagby, whose bravery and daring made him illustrious during the war
 of 1776.  Her father, too, was a gallant soldier in that struggle for
 freedom.  Often has the writer listened to the thrilling stories of her
 father's and mother's and uncle's experiences in that great struggle.
     After the war, when she was quite a child, her parents moved to
 Georgia, and settled in Oglethorpe county.  Here she grew into womanhood;
 and in 1800, in her sixteenth year, married Mathew Anderson, of the same
 county, and made a faithful and affectionate wife.  Having professed faith
 in Jesus as her Saviour in the year 1808, she joined, by experience, the
 Baptist Church at "Sculls Shoals", in Greene county, near where she
 resided.  Her husband died in 1838, and she lived a widow the remainder of
 her life.  On the 25th day of December, 1878, at 2 1/2 a.m., she died,
aged
 94 years, 11 months, and 6 days.
     A devoted and consistant member of the church for seventy years, she
 goes, in her ripe and full old age, to the bosom of her Saviour, upon
whose
 arm she so long has confidingly leaned.  There is something about the
faith
 of an aged devout Christian that partakes of the sublime.  It goes on
 adding strength until not a doubt obscures its effulgence.  Calmly and
 joyfully did the aged Christian die, smiling as she entered the gates of
 Heaven and saying, "the grace of God is sufficient".
     She was the mother of thirteen children - six boys and seven girls.
 Of these the only survivors are Mrs. Nancy Brooks of Brooksville, Ga.,
Mrs.
 Elizabeth Richardson, of Palmetto, Ga., and Mrs. Martha A. Dorsey, of
 Hollandville, Ga.  Her descendants number 253.  Of this number, 204 were
 living at the time of her death, 49 having gone before her "across the
 river".  Of the latter number, 19 were victims of war.  She gave to the
 cause of the South in the late war between the States 42 representatives,
 nearly all of whom were either killed, wounded, or captured.  Born in the
 jubilee of the Nation's birth just after the throes of the Revolution she
 lived an eventful life amid the wilds of Georgia.  Take all the facts
 connected with the personal history from her childhood to her death, and
 Georgia can furnish but few such records.
     She now sleeps in the family cemetery in Pike county, Georgia, by the
 side of her husband.  Let them sleep in their quiet resting place.  They
 will wake again in the general resurrection morning. May the strong and
 unwavering faith of our good old grandmother become the faith of all of
the
 204; and may they all live useful Christian lives and meet her in that
 happy land of rest beyond the grave.
 
 A Grandson
 (Transcribed by Dianne & Mike Webb <mwebb@numail.org>)
 
Note: Mathew and Francis Anderson, and many of their descendants including my
 3rd gr.grandmother, Martha Ann Dorsey are buried in the Anderson Cemetery
 on Blanton Mill Rd. in Pike County, near Hollonville.  Martha Ann's
 husband, James W. Dorsey, was mortally wounded at Gettysburg during the
2nd
 day's fighting.  He is probably buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond
 VA, though a Confederate memorial marker has been placed by the side of
 Martha's grave.