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Sally, often entire families left their homes and moved westward as the nation expanded. That is true of the Anderson family which left South Carolina, was in Georgia briefly, before moving to Missouri. Many of them ended up in Texas shortly before or during the Civil War. Your ancestor, David Q. Anderson, was in Brown County, Texas before 1860, as were my great-grandparents, Harriet C. Anderson and Israel Clements. When William C. Anderson, younger brother of David, left Stone County, Missouri, he followed his parents and brothers to Texas. In the 1870 census of Brown County, Texas, William Anderson and his wife Martha are enumerated on microfilm page 120B, while David and his wife Amilda (usually recorded as Agnes in other censuses) are enumerated on microfilm page 121B. Although both families lived in Brown County, the nearest post office for both families was San Saba, in the adjacent county to the south and separated from Brown County by the Colorado River. This is readily explained. Brown County was on the frontier, sparsely populated at that time, and the Brownwood post office, re-established under Jas. E. Ivesse 31 March 1868, had been discontinued 9 September 1868, and was not again re-established until 27 July 1870 under S. H. Keyes. There were Indian raids in Brown County as late as 1869, for my great-grandfather, Israel Clements, and his hired hand, George Isaacs, killed each other in a knife fight arising from the failure of George Isaacs to help the Clements family protect their horses from the Indians during a raid. By 1880 Jane Scruggs Anderson is living in the home of her son, D. Q. Anderson, where she is recorded as his mother. Census records are very informative once researchers understand their value and limitations, and become familiar with them.
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