James Anderson and Janet Bailey

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Husband James Anderson ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Jan 1761 2 3
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           Died: 19 Jan 1842 - Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 2 3
         Buried:  - Lowe Cemetery, Butler Co, PA 4

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         Father: John Anderson (      -      ) 1 2 3
         Mother: Margaret Cook (      -      ) 1 2 3

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• Note: This may be the same person as : James Anderson.

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Wife Janet Bailey ^{1 2 5}

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Children

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1 F Sarah Anderson ^{1 2 5}

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           Died: Bef 1879
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2 M Thomas Anderson ^{1 2 5}

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           Died: Bef 1879
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3 F Margaret Anderson ^{1 2 5}

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         Spouse: [Unk] Gibson (      -      ) 5

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4 M James Anderson ^{1 2 5}

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           Born: 29 Nov 1797 - Mifflin Co, PA 1 5
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           Died: 21 Nov 1872 - Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 1 2 5
         Buried:  - Calvert-Riddle Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 6

         Spouse: Elizabeth Pollock (cal 1795-1869) 1 2 5
           Marr: 25 May 1820 2 5

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5 F Nancy Anderson ^{1 2 5}

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           Died: Bef 1879
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         Spouse: [Unk] Perry (      -      ) 5

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6 M Samuel McCullough Anderson ^{1 2 5}

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           Died: Bef 1879
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7 M John Anderson ^{1 2 5}

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8 F Elizabeth Anderson ^{1 2 5}

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General Notes: Husband - James Anderson

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He was born in 1771. [HVC 1879, 644]
The cemetery book gives the year of his death as 1841.
He resided in Lack Township, Mifflin (later Juniata) County, Pennsylvania, whence he removed to Slippery Rock Township, Butler County, in 1801. In 1804 he became a pioneer settler in Scrubgrass Township, Venango County, on May 22d of that year purchasing a farm of 212 acres near Six Points. It is recorded that in March, 1814, he bought from David Irvine four hundred acres of land for twenty-one hundred dollars, three hundred dollars to be paid in cash; another part with two hundred gallons of whiskey at seventy-five cents a gallon; and the remainder in payments at regular intervals as stipulated. This land included a fine natural mill site on Little Scrubgrass creek, where the first flour-mill in the township had been built by a Mr. Campbell, and Mr. Anderson continued its operation and later rebuilt it, adding also carding and saw mill equipment. He was a very active businessman of his day. The mill site was later owned by his grandson William C. Anderson, who had his mill a short distance below the old site, and erected a portable sawmill on the creek a little above the flour-mill. The site was admirably adapted for milling without the construction of a dam, the race leading off above a ledge of rocks that rose abruptly in the creek bottom. [CAB, 683]

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General Notes: Wife - Janet Bailey

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In Lowe Cemetery (original cemetery of the Scrubgrass Presbyterian Church) is buried:
Anderson, Jennet, d. Dec. 11, 1823, age 62y
Possibly this individual.

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 644.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 973.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 683.

4 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 3, Scrubgrass Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1995), Pg 80.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 684.

6 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 2, Clinton Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1994), Pg 14.