Anderson Cheatham Explained

Anderson Cheatham was an American politician from Tennessee.^[1]

Early life

With his family, including seven brothers, he moved from Virginia to Robertson County, Tennessee, becoming one of the first settlers in the county.^[2] One of his brothers was Richard Cheatham (1799-1845), who served as Tennessee member of the United States House of Representatives from 1837 to 1839.^[1]

He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1801 to 1809, then from 1819 to 1821 and again from 1823 to 1825.^[1]

He was the uncle of Edward Saunders Cheatham (1818-1878), who served in both the Tennessee House of Representatives and the Tennessee Senate, Richard Boone Cheatham (1824-1877), who served as Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1960 to 1962, and Boyd M. Cheatham, a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.^[1]

He was also the grandfather of Benjamin F. Cheatham, (1820–1886), a General in the Confederate States Army.^[3]

http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12961.html The Political Graveyard: Cheatham-Foster family of Tennessee
James Harvey Mathes, The Old Guard in Gray:Researches in the Annals of the Confederate Historical Association. Sketches of Memphis Veterans who Upheld Her Standards in the War, and of Other Confederate Worthies, Memphis, Tennessee: Press of S. C. Toof & Company, 1897, p. 67 https://books.google.com/books?id=v_QxAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22anderson+cheatham%22+nashville&pg=PA67
Christopher Losson, Tennessee's Forgotten Warriors: Frank Cheatham and His Confederate Division, Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 1989, p. 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=g5DTDdArMoQC&dq=%22Anderson+Cheatham%22+tennessee&pg=PA2