Bailey Anderson

The South Carolina 250th Anniversary project says Bailey Anderson fought in the Revolution alongside his father John and brothers Scarlet and Joshua, all three killed, and that in the early 1790s he built the first mill on the site of today's Hagood Mill in what became Pickens County. In Indiana, under Governor William Henry Harrison, he served as a scout and Shawnee interpreter. The same source puts his arrival in Spanish East Texas about 1819 and his death in 1840 as a citizen of the Republic of Texas.

What the plaque says

Bailey Anderson (1754-1840) A veteran of the American Revolution, Bailey Anderson was born in Stafford County, VA. About 1760, he moved with his parents John and Sarah (Carney) Anderson to the Newberry District of South Carolina. At 21, he was in the Revolutionary army and during the next 11 years saw service in Georgia, Virginia, and the Carolinas, fighting Indians and the British, scouting and patrolling. His father and two of his brothers were killed in the conflict. About 1795, Bailey Anderson moved to Kentucky. There he served in the State Legislature, 1800-1802. In 1810 he moved to Indiana, to try life on another frontier. He migrated to East Texas about 1818. Although it was in dispute, Americans then considered this a part of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1820, when Spanish soldiers came from Mexico to evict the East Texas filibusters, Anderson and his family went to Arkansas Territory, but returned about 1821 as permanent settlers. The land surrounding this marker was in a grant from the Republic of Texas to Bailey Anderson, Jr., a soldier in the Texas War for Independence. Nearby, in the family cemetery, is the grave of Bailey Anderson, a veteran of the American Revolution. (1975)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Harrison County Historical Museum — 16 mi
  Galleries in Marshall's 1901 courthouse that run from the Caddo to the present, with Wiley College, Lady Bird Johnson's inaugural gown and a military gallery across the square in Memorial City Hall.
• Starr Family Home State Historic Site — 16 mi
  Maplecroft, the 1871 Greek Revival house Frank Starr built in Marshall, with Ruth Starr Blake's glass and china, an 1880s kitchen restored in 2019 and a retirement home built for a formerly enslaved person.
• Texas and Pacific Railway Depot and Museum — 16 mi
  The only surviving building of the Texas and Pacific shops at Marshall, a 1912 Mission Revival depot saved from demolition in the 1990s, still an Amtrak stop, with a railway museum and a Mikado locomotive.
• Tex Ritter Museum and Texas Country Music Hall of Fame — 18 mi
  Carthage's country music museum, with Tex Ritter's boots, guitars and saddles in a room styled like a movie theater, and exhibits on other Texas stars, Jim Reeves among them.

More markers nearby

• Mt. Zion Cemetery — 4.3 mi
• DeBerry — 4.7 mi
• Bell-Fountain Cemetery — 5.4 mi
• Site of Bethany — 8.0 mi