Henry and Sarah moved around 1828-1829 from Amite , Louisiana Territory to Caddo Cove, Arkansas, Territory.   Some suggested they moved to Caddo Gap, however both 1830 and 1840 Federal Census show Henry Anderson and family in Caddo Cove Township, Hot Springs County, Arkansas Territory.  Caddo Gap and Caddo Cove are both near the Caddo River, but they are about 60 miles apart.  Arkansas Territory was first claimed by Spain, then France before becoming part of the Louisiana Purchase.  Arkansas became a separate territory in 1819 and achieved statehood in 1836.  About the time of their move to Caddo Cove, Congress established the boundary’s separating Arkansas from the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma),

 In 1812 Kentuckians Martin and Mary Collier were the first recorded white settlers in this area.  Their daughter, Sarah “Sally” Collier, has been posted as the wife of Henry Anderson.  However, no records of this marriage in Arkansas has been found, only that of Henry Anderson and Sarah Lowry in Amite Co. Mississippi.

This was in the same time period with the “removal” of the Cherokee Indians from their native eastern land to the untamed country west of the Mississippi River.  Many of them, especially those of Indian/White marriages settled in Arkansas.  Francis Griffin, Henry’s mother, was reportedly 1/2 Cherokee.  His grandmother, Sarah Sa Ka Yu Ah Ocoore Griffin was buried in Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma Territory.

We do not know much about the Anderson family during their 21 years in Caddo Cove, only that he and his father, James, came from a long line of ranching families .  It would have been an exciting and challenging time for the family.  Arkansas was a slave state and became the 9th state to secede from the union  and join the Confederate States of America.  In 1832 they saw the removal of the five civilized tribes the Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw and Seminole’s from Arkansas to the Oklahoma Territory (one  more land promise broken with the Indians by Congress).

We do know that Sarah was kept busy raising 10 children in Arkansas.  Their eleventh child Phillip Jefferson was born later when they moved to Texas.  The Arkansas children were;

James Washington Anderson, born May 29, 1829                                                                 

Twins ….Mary and Prudence Anderson, born January 4, 1831

Elizabeth  Anderson, born November 21 1832.

Lucinda “Sinda” Anderson, born January 11, 1834

Albert Jackson Anderson, born February 15, 1836

Mitchell Harrison Anderson, born February 22, 1837

John Henry Anderson, born February 15, 1839

Delaney, “Laney” Anderson, born April 11, 1841

William Walter Anderson, born June 10, 1844

Not sure about Henry and Sarah’s politics, but we know they liked to name their children after Presidents, James Washington, Albert Jackson, Phillip Jefferson and Mitchell Harrison.