MY FAMILY ROADSHOW

ANTHONY RUCKER CARDWELL Birth 03 MAY 1797 in Concord, Campbell County, Virginia Death 20 NOV 1891 in Lockhart, Caldwell County, Texas Anthony Cardwell (1797 - 1891) My 1st cousin 6x removed James Cardwell (1761 - 1806) father of Anthony Cardwell John Cardwell (1715 - 1795) father of James Cardwell Perrin Cardwell (1744 - 1820) son of John Cardwell George C Cardwell (1787 - 1870) son of Perrin Cardwell Nancy Cardwell (1824 - 1872) daughter of George C Cardwell George Washington Myatt (1842 - 1911) son of Nancy Cardwell Nancy E Myatt (1870 - 1896) daughter of George Washington Myatt Dovie Mary Martin (1894 - 1933) daughter of Nancy E Myatt Ernest Haywood Allison (1921 - 2000) son of Dovie Mary Martin Anna Faye Allison I am the daughter of Ernest Haywood Allison  Anthony R. Cardwell lived on his father's farm in Campbell County, Virginia, until the age of twenty. He then went to Grainger Count...

James Anderson Ashburn More often called 'Anse' My 2nd Great Grand Uncle "Anse" was born on October 13, 1839 in Fentress County, Tennessee.  (Son of Robert Ashburn and Sarah Vaughn Ashburn)  He married Armilda Melvina Baldwin  on August 6, 1862, by Jesse Adkins in Jamestown, Tennessee.   Anse and Sarah had 10 children. He  died on April 10, 1946 in  Clarkrange, Fentress County, Tennessee. Anse was a Corporal, Company D, 1st Tennessee Militia, U.S. Army; Civil War Veteran.   He enlisted on January 25, 1863 (age 23) and served for two years.   His pension application  says he was thrown from his horse near Livingston, Tennessee while on a scout and injured  his back.  He also stated that he contracted small pox near Nashville, Tennessee  while covering up dead horses and the disease caused him to lose sign in his  left eye totally and partial blindness to the other eye.   Anse was described as having b...