MARY FRANCES "POP" MCDONALD, daughter of James Porter McDonald and Susan Sophia Edleman, was born about 1825, near Granville, in Jackson County, Tennessee. She was married to Overton B. Anderson on October 15, 1845, in Smith County. She was the mother of eight, possibly nine, children: (1) Infant Anderson, born and died July 1846, (2) Andrew Jackson "Dinks" Anderson, 1849-1895, (3) Eliza Jane "Sis" Anderson Womack, 1852-1940, (4) James Clark Anderson, born 1854, (5) Martha Ann Anderson Wilbanks, born 1856, (6) Susan Anderson Austin, born 1857, (7) Tennessee "Tennie" F. Anderson Massey, born 1861,(8) Possible child was Warren Anderson, born 1862, and (9) Marina "Mary" Frances Anderson King, born 1864.
Pop Anderson's nephew, Haskell McDonald, interviewed by researchers in 1973, remembered her as being "a very good woman, one of the best women I ever seen." He told a story which happened in Smith County, when one of her children was a baby. She had placed the baby in a crib in the yard. The story goes, that Overton B., returned home, riding a horse, and in an inebriated condition. He came running through the yard, mounted on the horse, and jumped over the baby's crib. Apparently, this was not the first time that he had arrived home in an inebriated condition. In retaliation, "Pop" took an ax in hand and chopped the wooden spokes from Overton's new wagon, his "pride and joy." The story did not relate whether or not there was a lesson learned!
According to the pension papers of Overton B. Anderson, Mary "Pop" McDonald Anderson died in March 1901 at Bloomington Springs in Putnam County, Tennessee, where she and O. B. had moved in 1894. (Informant was M. M. Smith, who lived next door to O.B. Anderson in 1900). However, "Dr. B. Anderson" is listed in the 1900 census of Putnam County, Tennessee as widowed; he is living next door to Mac and Carmilla Smith and a boarder "Bethel Gipson," aged 25, is living in the house with O.B. It seems likely from this census information, that M. M. Smith estimated the date of Mary Anderson's death, and March of 1901 is probably incorrect. Mary "Pop" McDonald Anderson's burial place is uncertain. It has been suggested that her grave may have been one of three Anderson family graves on the hill in front of their home in Bloomington Springs. There are no markers. (Source of possible burial location: Walter Hughes Anderson, grandson).
Pop Anderson's nephew, Haskell McDonald, interviewed by researchers in 1973, remembered her as being "a very good woman, one of the best women I ever seen." He told a story which happened in Smith County, when one of her children was a baby. She had placed the baby in a crib in the yard. The story goes, that Overton B., returned home, riding a horse, and in an inebriated condition. He came running through the yard, mounted on the horse, and jumped over the baby's crib. Apparently, this was not the first time that he had arrived home in an inebriated condition. In retaliation, "Pop" took an ax in hand and chopped the wooden spokes from Overton's new wagon, his "pride and joy." The story did not relate whether or not there was a lesson learned!
According to the pension papers of Overton B. Anderson, Mary "Pop" McDonald Anderson died in March 1901 at Bloomington Springs in Putnam County, Tennessee, where she and O. B. had moved in 1894. (Informant was M. M. Smith, who lived next door to O.B. Anderson in 1900). However, "Dr. B. Anderson" is listed in the 1900 census of Putnam County, Tennessee as widowed; he is living next door to Mac and Carmilla Smith and a boarder "Bethel Gipson," aged 25, is living in the house with O.B. It seems likely from this census information, that M. M. Smith estimated the date of Mary Anderson's death, and March of 1901 is probably incorrect. Mary "Pop" McDonald Anderson's burial place is uncertain. It has been suggested that her grave may have been one of three Anderson family graves on the hill in front of their home in Bloomington Springs. There are no markers. (Source of possible burial location: Walter Hughes Anderson, grandson).
MARY FRANCES "POP" MCDONALD, daughter of James Porter McDonald and Susan Sophia Edleman, was born about 1825, near Granville, in Jackson County, Tennessee. She was married to Overton B. Anderson on October 15, 1845, in Smith County. She was the mother of eight, possibly nine, children: (1) Infant Anderson, born and died July 1846, (2) Andrew Jackson "Dinks" Anderson, 1849-1895, (3) Eliza Jane "Sis" Anderson Womack, 1852-1940, (4) James Clark Anderson, born 1854, (5) Martha Ann Anderson Wilbanks, born 1856, (6) Susan Anderson Austin, born 1857, (7) Tennessee "Tennie" F. Anderson Massey, born 1861,(8) Possible child was Warren Anderson, born 1862, and (9) Marina "Mary" Frances Anderson King, born 1864.
Pop Anderson's nephew, Haskell McDonald, interviewed by researchers in 1973, remembered her as being "a very good woman, one of the best women I ever seen." He told a story which happened in Smith County, when one of her children was a baby. She had placed the baby in a crib in the yard. The story goes, that Overton B., returned home, riding a horse, and in an inebriated condition. He came running through the yard, mounted on the horse, and jumped over the baby's crib. Apparently, this was not the first time that he had arrived home in an inebriated condition. In retaliation, "Pop" took an ax in hand and chopped the wooden spokes from Overton's new wagon, his "pride and joy." The story did not relate whether or not there was a lesson learned!
According to the pension papers of Overton B. Anderson, Mary "Pop" McDonald Anderson died in March 1901 at Bloomington Springs in Putnam County, Tennessee, where she and O. B. had moved in 1894. (Informant was M. M. Smith, who lived next door to O.B. Anderson in 1900). However, "Dr. B. Anderson" is listed in the 1900 census of Putnam County, Tennessee as widowed; he is living next door to Mac and Carmilla Smith and a boarder "Bethel Gipson," aged 25, is living in the house with O.B. It seems likely from this census information, that M. M. Smith estimated the date of Mary Anderson's death, and March of 1901 is probably incorrect. Mary "Pop" McDonald Anderson's burial place is uncertain. It has been suggested that her grave may have been one of three Anderson family graves on the hill in front of their home in Bloomington Springs. There are no markers. (Source of possible burial location: Walter Hughes Anderson, grandson).
Pop Anderson's nephew, Haskell McDonald, interviewed by researchers in 1973, remembered her as being "a very good woman, one of the best women I ever seen." He told a story which happened in Smith County, when one of her children was a baby. She had placed the baby in a crib in the yard. The story goes, that Overton B., returned home, riding a horse, and in an inebriated condition. He came running through the yard, mounted on the horse, and jumped over the baby's crib. Apparently, this was not the first time that he had arrived home in an inebriated condition. In retaliation, "Pop" took an ax in hand and chopped the wooden spokes from Overton's new wagon, his "pride and joy." The story did not relate whether or not there was a lesson learned!
According to the pension papers of Overton B. Anderson, Mary "Pop" McDonald Anderson died in March 1901 at Bloomington Springs in Putnam County, Tennessee, where she and O. B. had moved in 1894. (Informant was M. M. Smith, who lived next door to O.B. Anderson in 1900). However, "Dr. B. Anderson" is listed in the 1900 census of Putnam County, Tennessee as widowed; he is living next door to Mac and Carmilla Smith and a boarder "Bethel Gipson," aged 25, is living in the house with O.B. It seems likely from this census information, that M. M. Smith estimated the date of Mary Anderson's death, and March of 1901 is probably incorrect. Mary "Pop" McDonald Anderson's burial place is uncertain. It has been suggested that her grave may have been one of three Anderson family graves on the hill in front of their home in Bloomington Springs. There are no markers. (Source of possible burial location: Walter Hughes Anderson, grandson).
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