George Cal Anderson was born in Cheyenne, Roger Mills Co., Oklahoma on August 18, 1926 to George Jefferson Anderson and Almina Eunice Copeland. He had four brothers.
He married on June 3, 1950 in Joplin, Jasper Co., Missouri, to Elsie Mariann Coleman who was born November 6, 1926, in Galena, Cherokee Co., Kansas, the daughter of Lyman McClellan Coleman and Mary Elsie Wise. They had four children.
George was a veteran of WWII. He enlisted and served in the U.S. Army from February 1, 1945 to November 2, 1945.
He was the grandson of pioneer John Henry Anderson, his paternal grandfather, who migrated as a young man, with his family from Garland Co., Arkansas to Young Co.,Texas, near Ft. Belknap, and became a rancher and stockman, rounding up and branding wild longhorn cattle for stock. His grandparents survived the Elm Creek Raid which took place on October 13, 1864 in western Young County, when what was estimated to be 700 Commanche and Kiowa Indians, raided the Elm Creek Valley, murdering, burning and looting, and taking women and children captive. On September 16, 1893 his grandfather participated in the Cherokee Strip Land Run in Oklahoma Territory. He was successful in acquiring 160 acres of farm lands near Cheyenne, Oklahoma that he homesteaded.
He was also the grandson of a legend. His maternal grandfather was Federal U.S. Deputy Marshall, Charlie Copeland, who covered a wide territory from Ft. Smith, Arkansas through Indian Territory, Oklahoma, tracking, jailing, or delivering to the hangman, murdering outlaws, train and stage coach robbers, and renegade Indians.
George died January 4, 1986, in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 59 years, and was cremated. He rests beside his wife, Elsie, in Restland Memorial Park Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas.
Sources:1880-1940 Census Records, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri Marriage Records, Oklahoma Historical Society Records, U.S. Social Security Death Index, and Family Records.
He married on June 3, 1950 in Joplin, Jasper Co., Missouri, to Elsie Mariann Coleman who was born November 6, 1926, in Galena, Cherokee Co., Kansas, the daughter of Lyman McClellan Coleman and Mary Elsie Wise. They had four children.
George was a veteran of WWII. He enlisted and served in the U.S. Army from February 1, 1945 to November 2, 1945.
He was the grandson of pioneer John Henry Anderson, his paternal grandfather, who migrated as a young man, with his family from Garland Co., Arkansas to Young Co.,Texas, near Ft. Belknap, and became a rancher and stockman, rounding up and branding wild longhorn cattle for stock. His grandparents survived the Elm Creek Raid which took place on October 13, 1864 in western Young County, when what was estimated to be 700 Commanche and Kiowa Indians, raided the Elm Creek Valley, murdering, burning and looting, and taking women and children captive. On September 16, 1893 his grandfather participated in the Cherokee Strip Land Run in Oklahoma Territory. He was successful in acquiring 160 acres of farm lands near Cheyenne, Oklahoma that he homesteaded.
He was also the grandson of a legend. His maternal grandfather was Federal U.S. Deputy Marshall, Charlie Copeland, who covered a wide territory from Ft. Smith, Arkansas through Indian Territory, Oklahoma, tracking, jailing, or delivering to the hangman, murdering outlaws, train and stage coach robbers, and renegade Indians.
George died January 4, 1986, in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 59 years, and was cremated. He rests beside his wife, Elsie, in Restland Memorial Park Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas.
Sources:1880-1940 Census Records, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri Marriage Records, Oklahoma Historical Society Records, U.S. Social Security Death Index, and Family Records.
George Cal Anderson was born in Cheyenne, Roger Mills Co., Oklahoma on August 18, 1926 to George Jefferson Anderson and Almina Eunice Copeland. He had four brothers.
He married on June 3, 1950 in Joplin, Jasper Co., Missouri, to Elsie Mariann Coleman who was born November 6, 1926, in Galena, Cherokee Co., Kansas, the daughter of Lyman McClellan Coleman and Mary Elsie Wise. They had four children.
George was a veteran of WWII. He enlisted and served in the U.S. Army from February 1, 1945 to November 2, 1945.
He was the grandson of pioneer John Henry Anderson, his paternal grandfather, who migrated as a young man, with his family from Garland Co., Arkansas to Young Co.,Texas, near Ft. Belknap, and became a rancher and stockman, rounding up and branding wild longhorn cattle for stock. His grandparents survived the Elm Creek Raid which took place on October 13, 1864 in western Young County, when what was estimated to be 700 Commanche and Kiowa Indians, raided the Elm Creek Valley, murdering, burning and looting, and taking women and children captive. On September 16, 1893 his grandfather participated in the Cherokee Strip Land Run in Oklahoma Territory. He was successful in acquiring 160 acres of farm lands near Cheyenne, Oklahoma that he homesteaded.
He was also the grandson of a legend. His maternal grandfather was Federal U.S. Deputy Marshall, Charlie Copeland, who covered a wide territory from Ft. Smith, Arkansas through Indian Territory, Oklahoma, tracking, jailing, or delivering to the hangman, murdering outlaws, train and stage coach robbers, and renegade Indians.
George died January 4, 1986, in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 59 years, and was cremated. He rests beside his wife, Elsie, in Restland Memorial Park Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas.
Sources:1880-1940 Census Records, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri Marriage Records, Oklahoma Historical Society Records, U.S. Social Security Death Index, and Family Records.
He married on June 3, 1950 in Joplin, Jasper Co., Missouri, to Elsie Mariann Coleman who was born November 6, 1926, in Galena, Cherokee Co., Kansas, the daughter of Lyman McClellan Coleman and Mary Elsie Wise. They had four children.
George was a veteran of WWII. He enlisted and served in the U.S. Army from February 1, 1945 to November 2, 1945.
He was the grandson of pioneer John Henry Anderson, his paternal grandfather, who migrated as a young man, with his family from Garland Co., Arkansas to Young Co.,Texas, near Ft. Belknap, and became a rancher and stockman, rounding up and branding wild longhorn cattle for stock. His grandparents survived the Elm Creek Raid which took place on October 13, 1864 in western Young County, when what was estimated to be 700 Commanche and Kiowa Indians, raided the Elm Creek Valley, murdering, burning and looting, and taking women and children captive. On September 16, 1893 his grandfather participated in the Cherokee Strip Land Run in Oklahoma Territory. He was successful in acquiring 160 acres of farm lands near Cheyenne, Oklahoma that he homesteaded.
He was also the grandson of a legend. His maternal grandfather was Federal U.S. Deputy Marshall, Charlie Copeland, who covered a wide territory from Ft. Smith, Arkansas through Indian Territory, Oklahoma, tracking, jailing, or delivering to the hangman, murdering outlaws, train and stage coach robbers, and renegade Indians.
George died January 4, 1986, in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 59 years, and was cremated. He rests beside his wife, Elsie, in Restland Memorial Park Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas.
Sources:1880-1940 Census Records, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri Marriage Records, Oklahoma Historical Society Records, U.S. Social Security Death Index, and Family Records.
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