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  • Time Line  of the Willis   Anderson and Martha   Jane Yawn Family
  • Visit  to the North Bay Creek Indian Village
  • Photos  of Various Descendants of Willis Anderson and Martha Jane Yawn Anderson
  • Photo of Anderson and Herrington family (abt. 1886)

       Willis Anderson was born about 1806. Willis married Elizabeth Simmons in 1832 in Henry Co., AL. He then married Martha Jane Yawn in 1849, in Henry Co., AL. Both Willis and Martha, according to family history, were Creek Indians.

        The following info was received from Sybil Cramer: "I have a letter from the Northwest Florida Creek Indian Counsel that states; in the letters of Benjamin Hawkins' it talks about a white man named James Simmons who married an Indian woman and had an Indian family. One of the children was named Elizabeth Simmons. She married Willis Anderson (Willis was the son of Tom Anderson) Tom married Mary (proof; 23rd congress, sen doc 51) Tom and Mary's children were Willis, William, John and Thomas. Willis married Elizabeth Simmons. Children Willis, Elixabeth, Rachel, Hett, Thomas and James."   Willis and Martha's children were: Sidney Jefferson, James B., Martha Palmyra, Mary Louisa, Ella (Melinda) Fere, Nancy Artemus, Jennie F. and Charles B. Anderson.

         The interesting thing about researching the Anderson family on the Internet is that I have had contact with descendants of many of Willis and Martha's children, as well as, a couple of Elizabeth's children.

  •  Sidney Jefferson - info from Tamara Hendon he "died in 1912 after being thrown from a wagon. Oral history was that he was taken by train to Mobile after the accident because his back was broken, but he died in Mobile on October 31 (or possibly in route). I have been told that he is buried in St. Johns cemetery in Bonifay. "
  • James B. - info from Dudley Chipley Herrington he "died after being gored by a wild hog in the swamps by his house in Washington Co., FL. He also was taken to Mobile by train.
  • Ella Fere (Malinda or Mae) - info from Albert Willis.
  • Mary Louise - info from Lillian Nursey "Mary Louisa was an herbalist."    She married Francis Erastus Herrington and they had 10 children.
  • Nancy Artemus - info from Earl & Lana Weeks and Alonzo Woods, Chief of the Lower Bay Creek Indians. Info from Jeff Weeks under a picture in Early Logging. "two of his brothers were lost on logging rigs. His mother was a full blooded Creek Indian from south Alabama. She marred his father E. B. Weeks, when she was 16 and had 12 children. The family lived in camps where logging was being done. Weeks' father raised and broke the oxen."
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