John Delma Anderson, Jr.
I feel like I'm starting the proverbial search for the needle in the haystack. We know very little about my dad's family. My dad's name is John Delma Anderson, Jr., making his dad, of course, JDA Sr. I think Granddaddy's parents were born in Arkansas, but I'm not sure where. Granddaddy had a brother whose first name was, strangely enough, also John, but his middle name was Harold. He went by the nickname Jack. Uncle Jack was several years older than Granddaddy though. Granddaddy was called by his middle name, Delma. I'm told there were other siblings, but I don't know how many or whether they were boys or girls. Sometime in their youth, Granddaddy's and Uncle Jack's parents left them, and we have no knowledge of them after that. I have never known their names or anything about them, and we don't know where they may have died or where they are buried. Not a lot of info, is it? Uncle Jack used to live in Old Hickory, Tennessee and worked at the DuPont plant there until he retired, and then he moved down to a camp he owned on the Buffalo River in Waverly, Tennessee and lived there until he died. Granddaddy always lived in Richmond, Virginia as long as I've known anything (and I'm 46 years old). Besides my dad and his older sister, Marie, there are three half-brothers, Felix, Eddie, and Bruce, and a half-sister, Gretchen. All of them have always lived in Virginia too. Granddaddy died within the past 10 years in Richmond, and Uncle Jack died in Waverly probably within the past 15 years. Jack's wife's name was Arbie, if that's any help. My dad's birthday is 12/31/29. He's never known anything at all about his family beyond his father, and before he gets so old his health gives out, I'd love to find out a little more for him. I don't know if I've given any information that will be helpful at all, because I'm brand new at this and have no idea what I'm doing, but if anybody out there can help, I sure will appreciate it! Thanks and God bless all of you Andersons!!