Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1885, Hart County.

MAJ. ALBERT ANDERSON was born in Barren County, Ky., September 8, 1822,
and is the fourth of seven children born to Joseph and Elizabeth (Terry)
Anderson, both natives of the "Old Dominion;" the former of Albemarle, and
the latter of Henry County.  They were of Scotch-Irish and Welsh descent,
respectively. Joseph Anderson was born June 11, 1778, and received an
excellent English and scientific education in his native State.  When a
young man, in about 1800, he, in company with three of his brothers,
immigrated to Metcalfe, then Barren County, Ky.; here he bought wild land
and improved a farm upon which he resided until his death, June 30, 1864,
in his eighty-fifth year.  In early life he taught school for several
years, and held various civil offices.  He was also judge advocate of the
Forty-fifth Regiment Kentucky Militia for over twenty years, and was a
veteran of the war of 1812, serving under Gen. Hopkins in the Wabash
campaign.  In early life he was a member of the Baptist, afterward of the
Christian Church, being a ruling elder of the latter for many years.  His
father, John Anderson, was a native of Edinburgh, Scotland.  When a young
man, about the middle of the last century, he immigrated to the colony of
Virginia, where he remained most of his life.  In his old age, however, he
removed to Kentucky, where his death occurred in his ninetieth year.  He
met his wife, an Irish girl, on his way over from Scotland, and was
married at New York.  Thirteen children - eight sons and five daughters -
were the fruit of this union.  He received an excellent education in his
native Scotland, and taught school for many years after his arrival in the
colony of Virginia.  He was also a veteran in the Continental Army during
the Revolution.  Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson departed this life July 5, 1845,
in her forty-ninth year.  She also was for many years a member of the
Christian Church.  Her father, Thomas Terry, was a native of Wales; he
first immigrated to Virginia when a young man, and afterward came to
Barren County, Ky., where he was among the pioneers.  He was a pensioner
of the Revolutionary war, having served under Gen. Washington through the
entire struggle of seven years, and was one of that band of heroes who
endured the rigors of that memorable winter at Valley Forge.  He
participated in the campaigns of New Jersey, New York and Virginia, and
was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown. Maj. Albert
Anderson received a good English and scientific education in youth, mainly
through the instructions of his father and uncles.  He was mainly employed
on his father's farm until he attained his majority, after which he taught
school for seven consecutive years, and during this time was also quite
extensively engaged in the tobacco trade, buying and shipping tobacco by
flat-boat down the river to New Orleans.  After he quit teaching he
engaged in the tobacco business on a much larger scale, and traveled
extensively over the United Sates for some seven or eight years visiting
seventeen States and Territores.  In about 1848 he returned to Barren
County, Ky., where he engaged extensively in the real estate business,
purchasing, among other lands, 535 acres in Hart county, upon which the
town of Caverna, now Horse Cave, was afterward laid out.  In 1850 he came
to Horse Cave, built the first house in the place, and afterward, in a few
years, sold $40,000 worth of town lots; here the Major has ever since
resided.  He has all his life taken a great interest and pride in military
affairs, and is probably among the best posted men in the old military
tactics to be found in the State, having been an officr in the State
militia for the past twenty-five or thirty years, and having held
commissions as lieutenant, captain, major, colonel and brigade inspector,
serving as brigade inspector of the Twentieth Brigade Kentucky Militia,
comprising the counties of Barren, Hart, Warren and Edmonson for six
consecutive years under John M. Harlan, adjutant-general.  During the
latter part of the war with Mexico he helped to raise a company of which
he was commissioned lieutenant.  They tendered their services to the
govenor, but the war closed before they reached the front.  Maj. Anderson
was married, Septemer 12, 1848, to Mrs. Louisa (Craig) Davis, a native of
Barren County, Ky., born January 18, 1825, and is a daughter of John and
Lydia (Smith) Craig, who were among the pioneers of southwestern Kentucky,
and who removed with her to Warren County, when she was only three years
old.  Six children blessed this union, only three of whom are now living: 
Carrie, now Mrs. George D. Willis, Eliza Belle and James.  Mrs. Louise
Anderson died September 30, 1858.  She was from early life a consistent
member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Anderson Terry Hopkins Washington Cornwallis Craig Davis Smith Willis
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Barren-KY Albemarle-VA Henry-VA Metcalfe-KY Edingburgh-Scotland NY Wales
PA LA Warren-KY Edmonson-KY Mexico

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