Capt
Bailey W.
Anderson
Jr.
Born in Greenville, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Ancestors 
Brother of
Wyatt Anderson, Solomon Anderson, Sarah (Anderson) Inglish, Joshua Anderson, Deliah (Anderson) Boon, William Anderson, Mary (Anderson) Kirby, James B. Anderson and Levenia (Anderson) Kirby
Husband of
Elizabeth (McFadden) Anderson
— married
4 Jun 1817 in Warren County, Kentucky
Descendants 
Died
at age 77
in Waco, McLennan, Texas, United States
Profile last modified
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Biography
The Handbook of Texas online- Bailey Anderson Jr. Texas State Historical Association Notes ANDERSON, BAILEY, JR. (1788–1865). Bailey Anderson, Jr., soldier and pioneer, the son of Mary (Wyatt?) and Bailey Anderson, was born on February 25, 1788, in South Carolina. He received a common-school education. In 1795 he and his family moved to Warren County, Kentucky. Anderson enlisted in the War of 1812 on September 11, 1812, at Vincennes, Indiana, as a private in Capt. Thomas Spencer's Fourth Regiment, Indiana Militia.
He married Winneford Bozeman of Warren County on January 10, 1814, but she died sometime after the birth of their son. Anderson married Elizabeth McFadden, also of Warren County, on June 4, 1817; they had eight children.
The family moved to Arkansas Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1817. By 1821 they had settled in San Augustine County, Texas. Anderson was alcalde of the Ayish Bayou District in the late 1820s. He commanded a company of San Augustine volunteers at the battle of Nacogdoches in 1832 and offered the terms of surrender to Col. José de las Piedras. His most heroic service was at the siege of Béxar in December 1835. With thirty picked men noted for bravery, he captured Colonel Navarro's house in the heart of San Antonio. He moved to Harrison County in 1837 and was appointed a trustee of Marshall University in 1842. Anderson moved to McLennan County in 1853. He died on July 14, 1865. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Nugent E. Brown, comp., The Book of Nacogdoches County, Texas (Nacogdoches, 1927). George L. Crocket, Two Centuries in East Texas (Dallas: Southwest, 1932; facsimile reprod., 1962). John H. Jenkins, ed., The Papers of the Texas Revolution, 1835–1836 (10 vols., Austin: Presidial Press, 1973). Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone, and Leon Counties (Chicago: Lewis, 1893). Helen G. S. Thomas and Dolly R. G. Barmann, Gilmore-Carter and Allied Families (Bowling Green?, Kentucky, 1962).
02:15, 21 February 2022 (UTC)02:15, 21 February 2022 (UTC) Bailey W. was born in 1788. He was the son of Bailey Anderson and Mary Wyatt. He passed away in 1865.
RESIDENCE In 1860 Bailey was living in McLennan County, Texas. Living with Bailey and Elizabeth were their son William and his wife Hannah. The value of Bailey's personal estate was 19,025 and William's was 2000. Living on the adjoining farm was Pink Anderson, his wife and children. Also, in the household was W.H. McFaddin age 62, born in Kentucky. Living on the adjoining farm on the other side of Bailey was his daughter Sarah and her husband T.M. Hill. [1]
Research Notes
He had eleven children, two of whom were girls who died young:
- Felix G[rundy], [1814-1902]
- O[liver] H[azzard], in the battle of Nacogdoches, [1813-1889]
- Hampton, also in war of 1836, [1818-1871]
- Bailey, [1820-1846]
- Ratliff, d. Aug 1 1846, [1820-1846]
- William Anderson
- Sallie, wife of T. M. Hill, 1827-1870, [1827-1870]
- Pickney, lived in Leon Co., Texas, [1829-1910]
- A[ndrew] J[ackson] Anderson, [1831-1853]
[dates and some names in brackets are per ancestry's trees (this tree in particular [2]), so should be verified]
Ancestry trees also have a child Pamplon Anderson 1815-1818, perhaps one of the daughters who died young.
The only Pickney Anderson tree that makes chronological sense [2]. 02:15, 21 February 2022 (UTC)Willard-2900 Headstone is in Wortham Cemetery, Wortham, Freestone County, Texas, USA. Headstone honors Bailey Anderson Jr, Bailey Anderson Sr, John Anderson and James Anderson
Actual place of burial is unknown.
According to records of Anderson township, Warrick County, Indiana Bailey Anderson arrived in 1806-1807 and for the succeeding ten years was one of the leading men of the county.
Bailey married Elizabeth McFadden on 4 Jun 1811 in Warren Co., Kentucky. He had also been appointed an Associate Judge, but resigned that position in 1814, when Daniel Grass was recommended to the Governor as a suitable person for that position.
In addition, he was elected on May 13, 1816 as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention by his brother-in-law Ratliff Boon (Boone), Bailey English, Bailey Anders and Joshua Anderson.
Records indicate that he enlisted in the War of 1812 on the 11th of September, 1812 in Vincennes, Indiana. At that time he was a private under the command of Captain Thomas Spencer's 4th Indiana Militia. He enlisted as a "Mounted Rifleman". (Dau of Republic of Texas - Patriot Ancestor Album - Vol I)
Research indicates that Captain Bailey Anderson also commanded a company from San Augustine, Texas at the Battle of Nacogdoches in the year 1832, and offered the terms of surrender to Colonel Piedras. At the seige of Bexar (Bexar Co., Texas) in Dec 1835, Capt Anderson, with 30 hand-picked men, captured the house of Colonel Don Antonio Nararro, which was located in the heart of San Antonio, Texas.
His military efforts included the Texas Militia as Commanding Officer at the Battle of Nacogdoches, the first military encounter of the Texas War of Independence. For his services to the Republic of Texas he was awarded a parcel of land in the Ayish Bayou area near San Augustine, Texas.
This is the land on which his father, Bailey Anderson, Sr., is buried and at which the State has erected a granite memorial stone in his honor.
His illustrious career also included serving in the position of Alcalde of Ayish Bayou District in June of 1824, and Trustee of Marshall University in Harrison County, Texas in 1842.
Captain Bailey Anderson, Jr and his wife are both most likely buried in a private plot on the farm they owned, at the time of their deaths. However, that is not a "known fact", merely speculation. The area is believed to be somewhere near or around Gholson, Texas.
Information by Becky Wilcox1953 originally submitted this to Kegley-Colton Hennigan-Neely Tree of Many Branches on 2 Nov 2011
Facts documented from the Daughter of the Republic of Texas Patriot Ancestor album - Vol I[3]
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXFJ-LKX : 18 February 2021), Pink Anderson, 1860.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/76844728/person/46450004308/facts
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155258976/bailey-anderson : accessed 20 February 2022), memorial page for Capt Bailey Anderson Jr. (25 Feb 1788–14 Jul 1865), Find a Grave Memorial ID 155258976, citing Wortham Cemetery, Wortham, Freestone County, Texas, USA ; Maintained by BeNotForgot (contributor 46974545) .
- Marjorie Rouse Willard, “Anderson, Bailey, Jr.,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed January 31, 2021, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/anderson-bailey-jr.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Bailey W. by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Bailey W.:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Bailey W. by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Bailey W.:
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Also, the McFadden brothers were key figures in the Regulator Moderator War. I'm also trying to determine if Bailey's wife Elizabeth McFadden is related to William "Buckskin Bill" McFadden, John McFadden, and Bailey McFadden. William and John were hanged in 1841 and Bailey was released because he was only 14. If anyone has any information connecting Elizabeth to other McFadden's then please share it. Thanks!