Dear Kinfolks,

Wishing you all a great 2012!!!!  (this is my second sending of this blog, some of you did not receive the first).

Following up on last years stories of our ancestors …………William Henry Anderson, Albert Jackson Anderson and Henry Madison (Mitchell) Anderson.

It was a fun time for me in 2011,  telling the stories that were passed down from my aunts and grandparents,  getting to know new distant cousins and their family stories, and learning more about the history of our great grandparents in the wild west.  Remember William Henry Anderson’s involvement in the shooting at the La Junta CO. saloon, and his escape from the Mexican jail.  James Anderson being hanged by his brothers Mitchell and John Henry Anderson.  It really was the wild-wild-west and our ancestors were right in the middle of some exciting stories.

My recent blogs were about Henry Mitchell Anderson or was it Henry Madison Anderson?  Now I find that we are not certain if his wife was Sarah Lowry or Sarah Collier? Unless we find birth certificates, marriage certificates, records from family bibles etc., that give their full details, it is a guessing game  on in the internet.  The farther we go back  tracing our ancestors steps, the harder it is to get accurate data.  Hopefully our grandchildren, with their knowledge of computers, will someday solve  our questions.

Recently our cousin brought up the question on the maiden name of Henry M. Anderson’s wife.  We know for sure her first name was Sarah ( sometimes called Sally).   I have followed what many family trees on Ancestry.Com report – – -her last name was Collier.  However, I found an early picture of Henry and Sarahs daughter named Lucinda and the caption under the picture she stated that she was the “daughter of Henry and Sarah (Lowry) Anderson”  also the caption reads “family records indicate Sarah Lowry Anderson was half-Cherokee Indian”.

In researching the Lowry name I have found a marriage record of a Henry Anderson and Sarah Lowry marriage on 27 Sep. 1827,  in Amite County. MS.   Also, a recent find was a “Sarah Lowry” on the Cherokee Indian Rolls and Dawes Commission records.  I can not confirm that this was our Sarah Lowry, however I have sent for more information from the National Archives in Fort Worth TX.   It’s a long shot, but Sarah Lowry could be our link to Cherokee Citizenship.

I leave you with these un-answerd questions from 2011 and hopefully some new answers in 2012.

Jim Lee