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James Ezekiel (Zeke) Anderson (1914-2005)

Yanceyville (07-07-2005) — James Ezekiel "Zeke" Anderson, 90, of 135 Fire Department Drive, died Tuesday, July 5, 2005, at his residence, following a two year period of declining health.

The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Yanceyville Presbyterian Church, conducted by the Rev. Bruce Wheeler. Interment will follow in the Harrison Family Cemetery on Old Hwy. 86 North, Purley.

Born in Yanceyville on Dec. 2, 1914, he was the son of George Andrew Anderson and Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Slade Anderson, both deceased. Mr. Anderson was a graduate of Appalachian State Teachers College, taught school and was a long-term employee of the N.C. Department of Probation and Paroles, retiring as district supervisor in 1979 and returning to his home county. He was a member of Yanceyville Presbyterian Church and Floyd, Va. Presbyterian Church. He was also a member of the Dan River Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution. He was a charter member of the Caswell County Historical Association and held several offices.

Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Sallie Gibbs Pridgen Anderson and son Albert Gallatin Anderson, of the home; daughters, Bettie Slade A. Kreplick and husband Dr. Joseph Kreplick of Dunedin, Fla., Anne Harriet A. Whitfield and husband R.L. Whitfield Jr., of Beulah, Colo., and Julie Lawrence A. Smith and husband Stan Smith of Elon College; sister Mrs. Ruth Anderson Howze of Charlottesville, Va.; and several nieces and nephews. A son, Samuel Harrison Anderson predeceased him.

The family will receive friends and relatives 30 minutes prior to the service at the church and other times at the residence. The family will be assisted by the Harrelson Funeral Service.

   1930 US Census
   Name: James E Anderson
   Age: 15
   Estimated birth year: abt 1915
   Relation to head-of-house: Son
   Father's Name: George A Anderson
   Mother's Name: Mary E Anderson
   Home in 1930: Yanceyville, Caswell, North Carolina
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   Anderson Family 1928

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   Anderson Family of Caswell County North Carolina, About 1928

   Bottom Row L to R: James Ezekiel Anderson, Ruth Byrd Anderson Howze, George Andrew Anderson Jr

   Top Row L to R: John Quintin Anderson, George Andrew Anderson, Mary Elizabeth Slade Anderson,

   Kenneth Gordon Anderson, Myrtle Lee Smith Anderson, Mary Slade Anderson Horton, William Banks Horton
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   The following is from the Caswell County Historical Association Newsletter of September 2008 and is reprinted here with permission, all rights reserved:

       Words are supposed to be my business but I find that they fail me when I try to tell you how much I appreciate the surprise birthday party thrown in with the regular meeting but much, much more. I believe I can say that it was the nicest birthday gift I ever got - worth waiting 93 years for. Genealogically speaking, I was born June 1, 1915 and historically speaking I was born in a cottage on Hill Street in the little railroad stop named Warsaw, probably, because as my father said, “Old Man Hill had read the then popular novel Thaddeus of Warsaw. Incredible as it may seem Mr. William L. Hill had attended college at Oxford in England and was the heir to many acres and had many slaves freed by the Civil War. My father, Robert C. Pridgen and mother, the former Sallie Viola Gibbs of Lynchburg, S.C. ran the country newspaper until his brother went to war and Daddy had to move back to the family farm to help his father and brother to raise produce for the country during World War One. We farmed for several years and then moved back to Warsaw so my little brother and I could attend grammar school without having to be transported by horse and buggy every day. There were no school buses in our county until 1923 or 4. I was to graduate there in 1931 and subsequently attend Flora Macdonald College, dropping out to take a job at the Courthouse in Kenansville, the County Seat 9 miles from Warsaw where I was a deputy Clerk of Court where I met and married County Sanitarian Zeke Anderson of Caswell County in 1943. We married and moved to Little Washington, then back to Yanceyville, then to North Wilkesboro, back to Yanceyville, back to North Wilkesboro, back to Yanceyville then to Elon College, then to Hillsborough and finally back to Yanceyville where Zeke died July 5, 2005.

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2. ↑ Description: Funeral of James Ezekiel "Zeke" Anderson