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Evergreen Cemetery on Sralla Road, Crosby, Harris County, Texas, was established for the burial of Crosby Swedes, but it was not officially dedicated until 1920. Lydia, Joseph and Willie ? Anderson were buried there before said dedication. I could not confirm Willie's burial there. The cemetery property was owned by Swede R.C.J. Kenning.
I had joined the England Verlander Society in order to find out more about these Verlanders (formerly Van der Linde or der Linder). Most entered the country via New York, New Jersey or Virginia; however, the main body moved down to New Orleans, Louisiana. The New Orleans clan, in part, moved to Texas, Colorado and California. Mrs. Genevieve Verlander Fairfield had filed her Verlander genealogy report with Conroe, Texas public library, Clayton Genealogy Library in Houston, and with Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah. I have not perused it. However, Genevieve informed me on the phone that our Lydia was definitely not of her New Orleans group. Maybe Joseph did not float down the Mississippi River to New Orleans to find himself a non-Swedish spouse, but went Northeast to do so.
The pre-1900 marital records of Dawson Co., Nebraska do not show a marriage between Lydia and Joseph. In fact, the 1850 and 1860 census reports for Dawson County, Nebraska do not show any Verlanders, nor does the death records. Tons of Swedish Andersons though in Nebraska and all the surrounding states.
It is possible that some of the New York or New Jersey Verlanders moved west to Chicago or Minnesota, and then southwest.
Lydia Verlander Anderson's last Will was probated in Volume 20, Page 253, Harris County Probate Records, and it states her children to be: O. R., T. L., H. W., Albert and Arthur W. Anderson. Only Theodore is buried in Evergreen Cemetery and all of the rest are interred in White Cemetery, Highlands, Texas excepting Willie - some say cremated, some say he is buried on Theodore's farm, and some said he was buried in Evergreen (no headstone found by me and not on the "official" records (backside of a drawing of the cemetery) of Evergreen - a true to scale plat of that cemetery is on my web pages at http://laanderson.com/laa-gene.htm).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE VERLANDERS [This was written before I had Lydia and Joseph's marriage license showing her name to be Wallander; however, Tony Reeve of Verlander Society, England, confirms that Wallander is just another derivative of Van der Lende or Verlander.]
The name "Verlander" is said to mean "man of the fields/land."
The surname "Verlander" is said to be the derivative of the Flemish-Dutch name "Van der Linde," "Van der Lende," or "Van der Lynde." The Americanization of said name has resulted in a strange conglomeration of spellings: Verlander, Virlander, Werlander, Berlander, Verlande, Van der Lende, Verlunder, Vanderlind, Vanderlyn, Vandelinder, Vander-Lyn, Vander Lyn, Van der Lan and Vander Lyn. There are probably a lots more (including Wallander). I have found most of the above combinations in the Houston white pages and in e-mail name searches.
Until August of 1998 I had no knowledge of any Verlanders being in our heritage; and, in fact, I had never heard of the surname "Verlander" before that date. I had no idea our family contained any Dutch genes.
When I obtained the death certificate of Theodore Leroy Anderson, my grandfather, I discovered for the first time that my great grandmother's maiden name was Lydia Verlander, wife of Joseph Edward Anderson. I then visited the Evergreen Cemetery in Crosby and located their tombstone, showing the following information: Lydia Anderson born May 17, 1858 and death February 13, 1905; Joseph Anderson born August 13, 1850, death April 3, 1902.
Apparently Lydia Verlander and Joseph Edward Anderson, my great grandfather, were married in Nebraska or some other place up north. Prior to 2002, I could not find records of any Nebraska marriage, but it must have been before November 22, 1883, as that was the date of Theodore Anderson's birth (allegedly in Dawson County, Nebraska). Their marriage had to predate 1883--possibly 1870 as the earliest and 1882 as the latest. Theodore appears to have been the first born and all of his siblings appear to have been born in Nebraska prior to November of 1892.
The whole Joseph Anderson family moved to Texas in 1892 when Theodore was age nine, leaving Joseph's father, Swan P. Anderson, in Gothenburg, Nebraska. It appears many of the Swan Anderson family had already relocated, to Missouri and Oklahoma.
I have not found any Verlanders (or similar/dissimilar spellings) in the early marriage or census records of Nebraska. Apparently the marriage was consummated elsewhere, probably in Iowa, as there were some Vanderlinders located there in 1860 census.
The early Verlanders are said to have arrived in England around 1571 from Wervik, West Flanders, whereas other Verlanders migrated into Germany at that time.
I have discovered that a James Verlander was in New York City in 1822, engaged in shoe making there. He had married Sarah Van Count in 1824, and they moved, with their family of five children, to New Orleans in the 1837. Most of those New Orleans Verlanders enjoyed the French atmosphere there and had stayed close by. However, a few have strayed to Baton Rogue, San Antonio and Houston.
A Genevieve Verlander Fairfield of Houston, Texas (of the New Orleans clan) is also a Verlander researcher of twenty-three years, and she is fairly certain that my Lydia Verlander did not arrive out of the James family, who came directly from New York City (supposedly was born in New Jersey as a lot of Van der Lindes resided in that state).
The Latter Day Saints online searcher also shows a good number of Verlanders in early Queen and Queen County, Virginia and in Essex County, Virginia.
I have devoted another Family Tree databank to the Verlander surname, which includes the New Orleans, Virginia and any other Verlanders I can find.
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December 23, 2002 Addendum:
By virtue of the newly discovered marriage license between Joseph Anderson and Lydia WALLANDER, I was really thrown askew in my Verlander search. It appears that Lydia was never named Verlander, unless that was the way the Swedes pronounced it in Sweden and in Nebraska. The marriage license clearly says "Wallander." Further, my search finds other Wallanders in Nebraska during that period of time wherein there were no Verlanders there.
December 23, 2002: I received an e-mail from Tony Reeve of the England Verlander Society, informing that they had discovered Lydia's birth in Sweden. This opened more research to be done, as I then found that Lydia had at least three siblings born in the same town, province and country of Olof and Cecilia Wallander.
Between 1858 and 1873, Olof Wallander and daughter, Lydia Wallander, left Sweden and had arrived in America and then in Saunders County, Nebraska. Lydia met and wed Joseph Anderson, son of Swan Anderson, in Saunders County, Nebraska. Did Krestina, Carl Oscar and Johannes join them? Did Cecilia Pehrsdotter Wallander accompany her husband?
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Gothenburg, Nebraska news article about July 16, 1903:
"Mrs. Lydia Anderson and youngest son and daughter arrived from Crosby, Texas last week and are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Anderson and other Gothenburg relatives." [I surely wished they had listed those other relatives! The youngest son would have been Willie - age 3, and Alice - age 26.]
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