Person:Miriam Anderson (3)

Note that Miriam has a brother, LeGrand Anderson, who marries a niece of Miriam's husband, Elijah Shaw. He settles in Decatur, Van Buren County, Michigan. The name LeGrand, which is repeated multiple times in this family line and the location in Michigan are clues to the relationships. See daughter Nancy Anderson.

Biography

Miriam Anderson's parents are almost certainly Cornelius Anderson and Anna Redmon. Some researchers have insisted her surname was Williams, but there is no evidence to support that conclusion. The confusion may be because Miriam is a half-sister of Elijah Anderson's first wife, Frances Williams. Miriam and Frances have the same mother, Anna Redmon. Anna Redmon's first husband was Robert Williams. After his death she married Cornelius Anderson.

Some useful information on this can be found at "Descendants of Bartholomew Anderson" at this site: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~anderson/va/trees/barth.html. There Miriam Anderson is a daughter, the second child, born to Cornelius Anderson and Anna Redford and it states that "Miriam Anderson m. Elijah Anderson (as his second wife)", so there is no doubt this is the same person.

"Virginia, Marriages, 1660-1800" by Jordan Dodd and published by Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997, gives the date and place of her marriage to Elijah Anderson AND GIVES MIRIAM'S SURNAME AS ANDERSON.

One final bit of evidence: Cornelius Anderson dies in Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio. This is where Nancy Anderson, daughter of Miriam Anderson, is living and the first 9 of her 13 children are born there. Is it conceivably just coincidence that Cornelius dies in the same far-away little town in Ohio where Nancy Anderson Shaw is living? No. It's very likely that Cornelius is Nancy's grandfather.