Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 



[Note - this is Fannie L. Noland who married in 14 May 1868 Judge Asa Green
Anderson.]

Mexia Daily News - Feb. 10, 2005 edition
By J. R. (Sonny) Sessions

'Mrs. Fannie Anderson who recorded the information in the last several weeks of
Freestone Co. and Fairfield history lived a long and interesting life, most of
it in Fairfield. her family left Jackson, Mississippi in early 1850 along with
other families that decided to come to Texas. They traveled until reaching
Freestone Co. which just been formed, they stopped at a little village that
became the County Seat and it was named Fairfield. Fannie Noland Anderson was
born here in June 1850.

Fannie married A.G. Anderson who was a brother to Mr. Jess Anderson and uncle
to Miss Mattie, Miss Nannie and Miss Lizzie Anderson who lived on a hill in
what now the Anderson Addition and Jess Anderson who lived in the two story
palatial house behind Awalt-Stephenson Drug. A.G. and his brother Jess were
both Confederate veterans of the Civil War. A.G. returned from the War with a
crippled arm. A.G. served several times in elected Freestone Co. of fices and
very respected citizen.

My great grandparents, Sheriff J.B. Rogers and wife Sallie were close friends
of the Andersons being in their wedding and such. My Mother told me when Mrs.
Rogers died in 1915 she and my Daddy stayed with the Andersons in Fairfield
while attending the funeral as they lived in Kirvin at the time. At this time
the Andersons lived in the two-story house on Reunion called the Hill house, it
was in bad shape in later years when I knew it.

A.G. Anderson died in 1920. Mrs. Anderson moved to Teague and lived with
family. The following is from Bob Compton's article in the Dallas News in 1976:

"On an August evening in 1942, Mrs. A.G. Anderson, having smoked her usual
after-dinner cigar while watching passerby's from the front porch, lay down to
finish reading a story in Ranch Romances and died quietly."
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