Dear Uncle Melvin!!

The Memphis family posted facebook pictures of our relative.   I talked with him a few months ago!

Sarah and Wesley Cannon

The famous seven!

Back Row:    Aunt Nan, Martha Belle

Bottom Row:  Kittie, Scot, and Aunt Gertie

Madness Monday.... Ready to Learn....

Let remember a family member....In the Seven-Smith Family Tree......  This will be my first area of emphasis on Mondays....  Here are the Five pictured off-spring of   Lucinda


The father of these 7 to 14 offspring.... was James A Anderson:
General: James A. Anderson (1830-????)

Cemetery: Lake Village, Arkansas
Regiment: “Trotter’s, Co B”


Birth: Jun. 2, 1830    Death: Jun. 14, 1905
James A. Anderson_ Spouse: Susan Anderson (1835 - 1881)_Burial:Dermott City Cemetery, Dermott, Chicot County,_Arkansas, USA  This white spouse was born Jul. 27, 1835   Death: Apr. 18, 1881 Susan Anderson/Spouse:James A Anderson (1830-1905)_Burial:Anderson Cemetery, Chicot County,_Arkansas, USA

• Enlisted in Co. E, 24th Arkansas Infantry, at Monticello, Arkansas, June 16, 1862;
• appointed third lieutenant, June 16, 1862;
• captured at Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863;
• confined at U.S. Military Prison, Camp Douglas, Illinois;
• exchanged at City Point, Virginia, April 10, 1863;
• resigned, March 1, 1864;
born June 2, 1830; died June 14, 1905;
buried in Dermott City Cemetery, Chicot county, Arkansas;
widow Mattie Anderson
• filed Arkansas pension application #29293 from Chicot county, August 15, 1927.


Anderson, James A _Third Lieutenant-