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ANDERS, JAMES HAMMETT

Surnames: ANDERS, HAMMETT, LANG, YARBOROUGH, BRAZILE, LINTHICUM, CHILTON, DE BARDELEBEN, HUNTER

James Hammett Anders, b April 28, 1833, Monroe County, Alabama, d February 2, 1897, Marlin, Falls County, Texas, buried Calvert Cemetery, Marlin. The sixth of thirteen children of Stephen (Steven) Reddlin Anders, d Smith County, Texas 1864, and his wife, Sarah (Hammett) Anders died 1851, Mississippi; bothnatives of Georgia, In 1818, the Anders family moved to Alabama, in 1849 to Clarke County, Mississippi.

James Hammett Anders became associated with the Lang Family in Mississippi. In 1854, at age 22 James H. Anders came top Texas, Falls County, bringing the LAng slaves by ox wagon to open up Land in NW Falls County on the Brazos River. Falls County was four years old and Marlin a village.

in 1857 James H. Anders went to Smith County, Texas, to Marry Pauline Helen Yarborough, b March 10, 1834 in Alabama, d 1864 on the family farm in NW FAlls County, where she was buried at that time. The Anders and Yarborough families had been friends in Alabama. Pauline Yarborough was a daughter of Richard Yarborough, b about 1800 North Carolina, d 1868 Smith County, Texas, married Greene County, Alabama, April 6, 1824, Leannah Brazile (Brazeale), b about 1804, d 1858 Smith County, Texas. James H. Anders married second time January 14, 1865, Marlin, his first wife's older sister, Martha Ann Yarborough, b March 12, 1827, in Alabama, d Novemeber 7, 1915, Marlin. Martha Ann had come to Falls County to take care of her sister, Pauline, in illness and three yound children, oldest under six.

KAmes H. Abders was in charge of Captain Willis Lang's plantation, and continued in this capacity during the Civil War; Captain LAng was in the Confederate Army and died at the Battle of Val Verde 1862. During the war James Anders acquired land of his own in NW Falls County, where he lived until 1869. Selling the farm at that time he purchased land, 475 acres; three miles west of Marlin; moving his family to Marlin at that time. His first wife, Pauline, and the young son, Wilis Lang, had died previously and were buried on the NW FAlls County farm. In the 1920s Ida Anders Lincthicum, daughter of James H. Anbders, had those graves moved to Calvert Cemetery, Marlin.

James H. Anders was a successful farmer and independent in his politics, having stood with Sam Houston in opposing Seession. He remained very active in his farming interest until his sudden death from apoplexy while standing in his buggy talking with a friend. James H. Anders was a charter member of Lodge #152 AF & AM, Marlin. He observed history as Falls County developed between 1854 and 1897.

By his first marriage to Pauline Yarborough, James H. Anders had three children:

Ida Pauline Anders, b October 26, 1858 in NW Fals County, Texas, d June 23, 1940 in Marlin--marreied first October 3, 1877 to Lysias Brown Chilton Sr., and second 1894 to B.J. Linthicum, Sr.

Sarah Leanna Anders, b July 24, 1860, NW Falls County, Texas, d July 2 , 1888 in Marlin, married William James de Bardeleben.

Willis Lang Anders, b October 5, 1862, NW Falls County, Texas, d October 12, 1867.

By his second marriage to Martha Ann Yarborough, James H. Anders had one daughter:

Emma Anders, b 1867 NW Falls County, d 1930 in Dallas, married Charles T. Hunter, b August 13, 1866 d December 30, 1948, Marlin.

At his death, James H. Anders was survived by his second wife, Martha Ann Yarborough Anders, and two duaghters Ida Pauline Anders Chilton Linthicum, and Emma Anders Hunter. Martha Ann Yarborough Anders died December 1915. All are buried in Calvary Cemetery. Pauline and young Willis Land having been moved to Calvary Cemetery.
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"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 8, Column 2, and page 9 Column 1.
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