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Husband: Benjamin Anderton
Of Mathews County (formerly Kingston Parish, Gloucester Cty), VA
Occ. Carpenter
Resident at Westville, Mathews, Virginia in 1880
Occ. Farm in 1880
Parents born in Virginia
born: abt. 1804                 place: Virginia
marr: 1839                      place: 
died: 1894                      place: Mathews County, VA
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Wife: Elizabeth Davis
born: 1820/26                   place: 
died: 1893                      place: Mathews County, VA
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CHILDREN
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#1 Alice Anderton
Alive as late as the 1910 census.  
Occ. Seamstress
born: 1840                      place: 
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spouse: ? Linscott
2 children.
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#2 Christopher Columbus Anderton
At 18, became apprentice carpenter to his father.
Enlisted in the Confederate Army on July 18, 1861.
Assigned to Stark's Battalion, Capt. Armistead's Company,
Light Artillery.
Present at General Lee's Surrender at Appamattox Court House.
Taken prisoner of war and paroled on April 10, 1865
with the rank of corporal.
Resident in Ware, Gloucester, Virginia in 1880
Occ. Oysterman 
born: 28 December 1841          place: Mathews County, Virginia 
marr: 24 March 1873             place: 
died: 9 September 1914          place: Mathews, Va, USA
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spouse: Lucy Alice Gayle
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#3 Catherine Anderton
Unmarried and lived with her parents her entire life.
Alive as late as 1885 when she is mentioned in a letter. 
Does not appear on 1890 census. 
born: 1842                      place: 
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#4 Benjamin Ringold Anderton
Served as a private in the Confederate Army in Stark's Battalion,
Armistead's Company of Light Artillery.
Present at the surrender at Appamattox Court House.
Received his parole papers as a prisoner of war on April 10, 1865.
Lived on land adjoining land belonging to his brother, Columbus,
on North River, in Mathews County, Virginia. (Inherited in 1895)
born: 1847                      place:
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spouse: Never married
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