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Personal data Capt. George Pressly Anderson 


Household of Capt. George Pressly Anderson

He is married to Margaret Gotea Wilson.

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They got married on June 19, 1867, he was 28 years old.Source 1


Child(ren):

  1. David Pressly Anderson  1868-1949 
  2. Emma Anderson  1871-1977
  6. Mary Eleanor Anderson  1881-1962 


Notes about Capt. George Pressly Anderson

REFN: 1617
*THE FAMILY HISTORY OF JANYCE M. MARTIN
George Pressley Anderson attended Furman Uninversity in Greenville, South
Carolina, between 1856-1859.
He enlisted in the 10th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, Company E as a
sargeant July 19, 1861,
at 23 years of age. He rose through the ranks, as Second Lieutenant,
First Lieutenant and finally Captain on July 8, 1862. He wasseverly
wounded, at Kinston, North Carolina in March of 1865. He appears onthe
Register of the Pettigrew General Hospital No. 12 in Realeigh, North
Carolina from March 11, through March 19, 1865. A chronology of Battles
and Skirmishes of the South Carolina Tenth Regiment shows this regiment
surrenderedat Bennett's House, Durham Station, North Carolina on April
26th, 1865 aboutone month after the Captain was wounded.
After his marriage he established his home in South Carolina and was
there engaged in teaching school until 1869,when he came to California
with the John Gotea Pressley family. His wife and oldest son followed in
1870. He was employed as a teacher in Suisun, Solano County,
California. In 1876, George moved to San Jose and was engaged in
teaching for two years. In 1878, he was called to the schools of Santa
Rosaand made principal of the old Davis Street School (now known as
Lincoln School).
It was in this capacity that he rendered a valuable service to the
community until his death in 1887.
*THE SONOMA DEMOCRAT
Saturday February 26th, 1887 (Weekly at that time)
"DEATH OF GEORGE P. ANDERSON."
Professor George P.Anderson, who has been ill for some weeks past with
dropsy of the heart, diedat his home in this city Wednesday morning at
10 o'clock. His protracted sufferings were borne with a bravery and
calmness of spirit which has ever characterized him. He served as
Captain in the Confederate Army during the latewar. Soon after the
close of the war he moved to this State and took up hisresidence in
Solano County where he taught school for several years. Some years later
he moved to this city and served as vice-Principal of the High School
until elected Principal of the Davis Street School, the duties of which
position he faithfully and satisfactorily discharged until his recent and
fatal illness. He was a member of the Santa Rosa Lodge I.O.O.F. and also
of theKnights of Honor. The deceased leaves a widow and five children
to mourn his loss besides many friends and relatives, among whom may be
mentioned, his cousin Judge J.G. Pressley. The deceased was a native of
Georgia, aged 48 years, 8 months and 15 days.

Name Prefix: Capt. Co. E.

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Sources

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Historical events

Birthday July 8, 1838

  • The temperature on July 8, 1838 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1838: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 6 » Alfred Vail and colleagues demonstrate a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
    • February 17 » Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
    • June 28 » Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
    • July 4 » The Iowa Territory is organized.
    • August 18 » The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads.
    • November 3 » The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.

Day of marriage June 19, 1867

  • The temperature on June 19, 1867 was about 19.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
  • In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
    • March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
    • March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
    • May 29 » The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
    • August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
    • September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.

Day of death February 23, 1887

  • The temperature on February 23, 1887 was about 7.8 °C. The air pressure was 38 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1887: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 20 » The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
    • February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
    • April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
    • April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
    • July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
    • September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.


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