{"id":3118,"date":"2022-01-10T14:11:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:11:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:11:45","slug":"anderson-theophilus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/anderson-theophilus\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson, Theophilus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Theophilus Anderson<\/strong>, a merchant of Curve, was born in Madison County, Tenn.,<br \/>\nNovember 13, 1840, and was the third member of a family of three sons and<br \/>\nseven daughters born to J. B. and Martha W. (Sherman) Anderson, and is of<br \/>\nEnglish descent. His father was born in South Carolina in 1805, and came with<br \/>\nhis parents to Bedford County, Tenn., when a small boy, where he was raised<br \/>\nand educated. In 1830 he moved to Madison County, where he married; in 1851<br \/>\nhe moved to Lauderdale County, and settled near Tisdale Springs, and served as<br \/>\nmagistrate in his district for several years, dying in Haywood County, July<br \/>\n17, 1875. Our subject&#8217;s mother was born in North Carolina, and still lives in<br \/>\nHaywood County. Theophilus Anderson followed farming until 1880; since then<br \/>\nhas been in the saw-mill and mercantile business. He enlisted in the<br \/>\nConfederate Army, and belonged to the Sixth Tennessee Infantry, under Col. Wm.<br \/>\nA. Stephens, of Jackson, Tenn., and was in the battles of Perryville and<br \/>\nChickamauga, and in the retreat from Dalton to Atlanta; was two years and six<br \/>\nmonths in the quartermaster&#8217;s department, and in the army four years. Mr.<br \/>\nAnderson was married in Haywood County, January 1, 1867, to Elizabeth J.<br \/>\nGarrett, daughter of Henderson Garrett; one son, Floyd A., was born to this<br \/>\nmarriage. Mrs. Anderson was born in Madison County, in 1842, and died in<br \/>\nLauderdale County, in 1870. December 21, 1871, our subject was again married<br \/>\nin Haywood County, to Mary E. Garrett, who was born in the same county, in<br \/>\nFebruary, 1844. Three sons and one daughter were born to this union: Eustace,<br \/>\nJohn P., Ivan and Florence E. In politics Mrs. Anderson is a Democrat, he is<br \/>\na member of the Masonic fraternity, and was W. M. of his lodge, and, with his<br \/>\nwife, belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He is a member of the<br \/>\nfirm of Irvin &amp; Anderson, at Curve, Tenn., and is an influential citizen of<br \/>\nthat place.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theophilus Anderson, a merchant of Curve, was born in Madison County, Tenn., November 13, 1840, and was the third member of a family of three sons and seven daughters born to J. B. and Martha W. (Sherman) Anderson, and is <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/anderson-theophilus\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-anderson"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}