From Proud Heritage, Vol 1 by DCPA, not currently in print.
Eugene Pembrook Anderson, Sr., called “Pem”, son of George Wiley and Millie L. Woods Anderson, was born at the old home stead of his parents near Sparta, White County, Tennessee on August 6, 1858. He was the sixth child of eight children and the great grandson of the Irish immigrant James Anderson, who migrated into the Colony of New Jersey about 1769.
At the early age of sixteen, Pem became a member of the Church of Christ at Burriet College, Tennessee, under the preaching of Elder W. D. Carnes.
In 1878, along with his brother, Wiley Blount Anderson, and two cousins, Anderson Van Woods and Levi W. Woods, Pem came to Texas, selecting Lancaster in Dallas County as his adopted home.
On October 19, 1885 in Dallas County, Pem took for his bride Mary Rosannah Lavender, the daughter of James Irvin and Lillis Elender Douglas Lavender, who were pioneer settlers of the Lancaster community. One child, Eugene Pembrook Anderson, Jr., called “Gene”, was born to the young couple on July 30, 1886. They had less than three happy years together before Pem died on May 27, 1888, of tuberculosis. Rosa survived her husband only a few short years, dying at the residence of her father on July 10, 1892, also of tuberculosis. They are both buried at Edgewood Cemetery, south of Lancaster, Dallas County, Texas.
By June Anderson Shipley, granddaughter, Dallas
