Table of Contents of
Volume 1 of Climbing The Family Tree

by
Bessie Lamar Anderson Calvert

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Anderson Family Drake Family Buchanan Family Patton Family Appendix


Foreword									1-1

Dedication - to Olivia Anderson Dick						1-2

"Climbing the Family Tree" - by Bessie Lamar Anderson Calvert			2-1
	The authors story of how to become
	acquainted with your ancestors.

The Anderson Family

	Anderson Coat-of-Arms and Description					3-1

	Historical Sketch of the Anderson Family				3-3
		The arrival in Virginia late in the seventeenth
		century - Richard - Robert. Unquestioned history
		from the time of Robert Anderson I who died in 1712.

	David 0. Anderson (1776-1840) - his the fourth generation
		after reaching America.

		The Descendants of David 0. Anderson and Sarah Drake		4-1

		1812 War Record							4-2	


		Will of Amediah - His mother - Nov. 13, 1826			4-3

		Deed Abstracts - Louisa County, Virginia			4-5

		Abstract of Will - Franklin County, Tennessee			4-8

	James Patton Anderson (1820-1.884) - Captain Union Army
		Son of David 0. Anderson

		Descendants of James Patton Anderson				5-1

		Letters to wife during Civil War 1861-1863			5-9

		Letter dated Burleson County, Texas, 1883			5-20

	Civil War Records - John Floyd Anderson, lst. Lieut.,
		Rufus F. Anderson, Sgt., Dr. Albert Gallatin Anderson,
		Ass 't. Surgeon, Lafayette Anderson, Pvt.		3-6, 4-2, 6-1

	James Patton Anderson (1822-1872) Brig. Gen. C.S.A.-Life Sketch	6-2, 13-11

	Dr. Albert Gallatin Anderson (1805-died after 1862), son of
		David 0. Anderson. His and Emily H. Callaway's descendants	7-1

	Patton Anderson and William Preston Anderson, sons of Margaret
		Patton Buchanan and her second husband William Anderson.
		Deed fragments from Fayette County, Kentucky			7-10

	William Pope Anderson - Author and Historian				7-14



	Marshall Ney Anderson (1868-1947) son of James Patton Anderson -
		life sketch by his son Marshall Patton Anderson 		8-1

	Marshall Pat ton Anderson ( 1899- ) Life Sketch 			8-3

		Lineage 					5-8, 10-1,10-3, 10-4

		First Wife, Margaret Bagwell, Lineage Chart 			10-9

		Second Wife, Alma Mae Beamon (nee Murphy) Lineage Chart 	10-10

	Bessie Lamar Anderson Calvert (1894- ), daughter of Marshall
		Ney Anderson -her career. 					8-7

		Lineage Chart 					5-8,10-1,10-3, 10-4, 10-5

		Membership in Patriotic Societies 				11-1

	Anderson Bible and Gravestone Records 					9-1,11-7

	Master Lineage Chart -All Lines 					10-1

	0livia Anderson Lord Dick, great grand-daughter of
		Dr .Albert Gallatin Anderson -Lineage Chart 			10-2

		Life Sketch 							1-2	

	Lenora Fogarty Pilkinton, Descendant of Mary Buchanan and Andrew
		Boyd -Lineage Chart 						10-7	

	Bransford EubankJ Descendant of Margaret Patton Buchanan and
		William Anderson -Lineage Chart 				10-8

	Anderson Bibliography 							11-2

	William Emery Calvert (1894-1958), husband of Bessie Lamar
		Anderson- Lineage Chart 					10-5

		Calvert Coat-of-Arms and Description 				11-3

		Calvert Family History 						11-4


		Calvert Bible and Gravestone Records 				11-5

		Downing-E11is Bible Records 					11-8

		Downing Ancestry of Elizabeth Jane Ellis 			11-10

The Drake Family

	Coat-of-Arms and Description 						12-1

	Samuel Drake -Historical and Descendants 				12-3

	Samuel Drake -Court Records, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee 		12-5

	Ephriam Drake

		Birth and Marriage 						12-6

		Will 								12-7

		Court Records 							12-8

		Revolutionary Service 						12-9

		Appointment as Runner to Scout Indians 				12-12

		Letter dated April 4, 1916 from Dr. John Buchanan Drake,
			grandson of Ephriam Drake, to his cousins 		12-15

The Buchanan Family

	Coat-of-Arms and Description 						13-1

	John Buchanan, The Laird of Cherry Tree Bottom -A story of the
		times and the constant struggle with the Indians 		13-3

	Col. John Buchanan and Descendants 					13-10

	Col. John Buchanan's Journal -Excerpts
		A story of travel in those days and of a discourse
		with a Brother of Epratapha (a Dunkard) 			13-17

	Journal of the House of Burgesses -Excerpts 				13-20

	Council of War July 27, 1756 -an account of a plan to build
		a string of forts as protection against the Indians.
		George Washington was Colonel in command of the Virginia
		Militia. John Buchanan's signature heads the list of
		officers present 					13-21,13-24

	Buchanan Marriage Record 						13-26

	Buchanan Bibliography 							13-28

Patton Family 

	Patton Coat-of-Arms and Description 					14-1

	Family History -beginning in Scotland in the fifteenth
		century- the move to Virginia. 					14-3

	Col. James Patton, born in Ireland

		His History, War Record and Civil Service 			13-3,14-3

		The Will of James Patton 					14-5


Appendix

	Ancient Ancestry, from circa B.C. 150 through Kings of
		England, Scotland and Ireland 					18-1

	Descent, Stewart Line (Saxon) from Alfred, "The Great"
		King of England 						18-5

	Magna Charta Barons and Descent from Henry I,
		King of France 							18-10,18-11

	The Magna Charta Barons (the Sureties) Sketches

		Richard de Clare 						18-8, 18-9


		Gilbert de Clare 						18-8, 18-9

		Robert de Vere 						18-6,18-11, 18-12

		Saire de Quincey 						18-13, 18-14

		Robert Fitzwalter 						18-4

	"Ancestors who were "Companions of William, The Conqueror,
		at the Battle of Hastings, 1066." 				18-15

	Lineage Charts

	The Scottish Succession 						18-16

	The Aston Chart 							18-17

	The Magna Charta Barons -Famiily Charts :
		Clarel Vere, Quincey, Bigod 					18-18

	A few literary bits 							18-21

	Apologia 								END

                                             ______________

The compiler wishes to express her grateful appreciation to the following
for their assistance in completing the coats-of-arms:

				       Mrs. Earl Cobb
				      Mrs. J. H. Letton
				     Mrs. Lawson N. Dick




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