From: Barbara Allen [ballen4 at satx.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003
To: Pat McGaha
Subject: Re: Anderson Family
Perry Anderson son of Jonathan ( Ole Shelby )4 Wyatt3 Bailey2 John born Nov. 16,1823 married a Nancy Isabella Bodine about 1842
children as follows :
John S Anderson born Aug 27 1844 Shelby Co TX .Married (1) Martha A Henderson (2) Lizzie Denby
Jonathan A Anderson born 1846 Shelby Co Tx. died 1906 served in civil war co E 19th Texas infantry
Nancy Permelia Anderson born April 16,1849 Shelby Co. TX died May 18 1917 Noble Sabine Parish La. Married a Moses Wooten Henderson
William Pinkney Anderson born Sept. 3, 1850 Shelby Co Tx died Jan 4 1939 Shelbyville Shelby Co Tx. Married a Rosa C. Wilburn
Elizabeth Anderson born 1852 married a A W Taylor
Amanda A Anderson born June 17 1856 Shelby Co TX died Aug 16 1934 Married a Joseph T Eddins
Archibald A Anderson born March 14 1857 Shelby Co Tx died Feb 26 1920 Married ( 1 ) Sarah ( Jenny ) Wilburn ( 2 ) Amanda Jane Hanks
Perry Anderson is the son of Jonathon ( Ole Shelby Anderson ) who married 3 times ( 1 ) Nancy Whetsone in 1818 ( 2 ) Hannah Louise in 1822 ( 3 ) Sarah Biggers 1864 ...
From: KathyePayneUpham [kupham at houston.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004
Subject: children of Isabella Bodine, d/o John Bodine & Nancy [Gunnels]
Hi Dave,
Your file for Perry Anderson, husband of Isabella [Bodine] ... I make reference to your notes and just pray I haven't misunderstood them ...
"The probate papers of John Bodine establish the marriage date of Perry and Isabella to two months preceeding September 1843. Early census and tax records show that the family lived in Orange, San Augustine and Shelby Counties. Perry's petition for a division of property was almost immediate after his marriage to Isabella. The death date shown here was determined from the tax records of Shelby County which reflected his estate on the 1876 record. "
Does this note mean that tax records exist showing the estate of Perry Anderson? If so, can you lead me to any source to get a copy of them?
All of the descendant researchers of Perry's father (and others) state that Perry & Isabella's youngest son was James Perry Anderson born 17 Apr 1867 - died 05 Aug 1916 but NOT one of them has been able to provide any record of any kind to prove this.
Although Perry & Isbabella are not my own direct line, I have spent almost 500 volunteer hours (most of these searching every page of the handwritten censuses 1870-1880 of the east Texas counties) searching for any record that states a kinship of James Perry Anderson to Perry, Isabella and/or any of their children but have found nothing!
... if you have any kind of legal reference regarding Isabella or Perry's deaths, estates, land sales...
Thankyou,
Kathye
P.S. I have gathered quite a bit of information on the children of Perry & Isabella in my record searching and will happily share it with you...
Here is Jim Bodine's response to Kathye's message:
From: Jim Bodine [jimbodin at airmail.net]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004
To: Kathye; Dave Bodine
Subject: Re Perry & Isabella Anderson
Kathye & Dave:
You have presented me with questions that have for years been almost without known answer. After having been found on censii Perry and Isabella simply seem to have fallen from the face of the earth. I am not legally minded but in early Texas there was a number assoc. with property but for the life of me, I cannot at this time come up with the proper name for those numbers.
The Shelby county records burned in the early 1880's and almost all local land records, deeds and etc. were lost but there was still association to ownership held in and by the state. If memory serves me correctly, and this surely puts me on shakey ground, in the Shelby County records that presently exist there is documentation that associated persons and property by the use of this numbering system. In 1873/74 this property, by number, was associated with Perry. After that time the same property became associated with Isabella but ended in 1876.
I was born and raised for the first few years of my life very near the location that Perry and Isabell lived in the 1870's. I have also expended many hours in my quest for further information about the family of these two people and this is the best that I have been able to find. It was told to me by locals of the area that an Anderson Cemetery did
exist in or near the West Hamilton area of Shelby County but it has since been reclaimed by the forrest or Lake Toledo Bend. One of my cousins was in the forestry service in the county and spent much of his life in the area and even looked for this particular cemetery but to no avail.
This will probably not provide the proof that is being sought but it is the nearest thing to proof of death that I have ever been able to find. I do know that with other family members that the ownership of the associated property changed to the remaining spouse either in the year of death or in the next tax year.
I will dig back through some of my old notes and see if I can come up with anything further that might be of assistance. The John Probate records are solid and I have a copy of same that was secured from San Augustine. The probate was kept open for many years and the probate is quiet extensive.
May the Good Lord be with you in your search.
Jim Bodine
Here is some tax roll information on Perry and Isabella (Bodine) Anderson that Jim Bodine looked up. Jim wrote, "A part of yesterday was spent in the Library in downtown Dallas and the early tax rolls of Shelby and San Augustine county TX were viewed and the quality of same were pretty miserable. Some areas of the film were totally unreadable but I am 98% sure that the data that I am attaching is correct. I failed to take a magnifying glass with me but I really don't think that it would have been of much help. It seems that the attachment provides a pretty good history on the location of this couple over a span of several years."
Anderson Information
Updated on Aug - 5 - 2004
The information listed on this page and possibly any to follow was found on the tax rolls contained in the Johnson Library in Dallas, Texas on the above date. I checked back and started from the year 1846 and worked forward until I was no longer able to find Perry on the San Augustine county record and then located him on the Shelby County records and proceeded from there.
In 1846 only Wm G. and S. G. Anderson were found listed in the record. In 1847 there was a W. G., I. C. and Perry with very little additional information. No Andersons were found on the 1848 and 1849. On the 1850 only a M. G. and W. G. were found. The 1851 listed a M. G., Mary, Wm G.. 1852 and 1853 only listed an M. S.. Mary again appears on the 1854 through 1857 with Perry also appearing on the 1856. Mary again on the 1857. On the 1858 there is Perry, Joseph and Mary.
The 1859 and 1860 list a Mary and Joseph. 1861 lists a John W. , Perry, Joseph and Mary. 1863 and 64 shows Perry. 1865 could not be read. 1866 shows Mary and 1867 shows a Mrs. M. A.. Perry did not again appear on the San Augustine tax roll and I did not persue Andersons further on that reel.
I then started on the tax roll of Shelby county. In 1865 F. A. E. Anderson was listed and he also had four entries on the 1866 and there S. A. Anderson was also listed.
The 1867 which was unreadable and I then moved to the 1868 and there found Perry and John. The 1869 and 1870 were not readable and then two Andersons were found on the 1872. The film was dark but one name appeared to be Jim B. and the other was Perry. There were other Andersons on the film but it was too dark to read. On the 1873 the Anderson entries were John, Perry, W. P., L. A. and Susan P.. (The P is not certain).
The 1874 was not readable. The 1875 was dark and faint but there appeared to be a W. P. Anderson on it and also a John, Perry Anderson est., and I. Anderson. (poss. Isabella ?) No other Andersons listed on the 1875. I am assuming that the Est. following the name of Perry was indicating it was his estate. On either the 1875 or 1876 there was an entry Anderson I. to J. B. Tucker. There were no other Anderson entries on the 1876.
The 1877 showed J. H., K. L., W. P., Susan C., S. C. C., and Anderson, Isabella Mrs., (this indicates to me that Isabella was still living.) John Anderson was also listed in this tax year. Since there was no later entries for Isabella she probably died in this year and the flurry of activity might indicate that the division of property took place. The property indicated on the tax roll did not appear to be enough to warrant very much activity. It is also possible that Isabella no longer owned property and that she lived in the home of one of the children but if so, she was not found on the 1880 census.
This information was prepared from data derived from the early tax rolls of Shelby and San Augustine counties by James M. (Jim) Bodine 8-5-2004 in Dallas, TX.