Anna Jane Goldberg was born in Texas to Reverend Charles A. and Mary Ann Doe Goldberg, being the youngest of their four children. Anna's mother died in 1859 in Clarksville and by the 1860 U.S. Census the family was residing at Linden in Cass, County, Texas. After Anna's father remarried, she decided to live with her older sister in Clarksville and returned. On the 1870 U.S. Census, she is still living in Clarksville with Mollie and it indicates that both of her parents are of foreign birth. Prior to the 1880 U.S. Census, Anna married Dwight Clinton Van Wey, a man that was 20 years her senior. Together they had the following children:
- Claudia P. Van Wey (1880-1947); married George Robert Thomason
- Charles "Charlie" Rufus Van Wey (1884-1930); married Vona F. Minshew
- Sullivan Ross Van Wey (1886-1963): married Geneva
- Lydia Kate Van Wey (1888-1977); married Fred Wadsley
- Allie May Van Wey (1892-1964); married Loyad Sullivan
- Cora Cornelia "Pearl" Van Wey (1894-1937); married William Ralphus Hutsen
I have read that they were members of a "Grange" which is a type of co-op where the families were educated and crops were sold by the grange. I do not have a source to site for this. In the 1900 U.S. Census they are still living in Red River County, Texas.
Anna's husband dies in 1906. She is listed on the 1910 U.S. Census as having given birth to 9 children but only 6 are living. At some point before her death, she was living with her sister Mollie again. She died a week after her beloved sister passed away.