Lincoln County Beacon Dec 11, 1890
W. R. Anderson of Colorado township, died at his home on Friday, Dec. 5, 1890 at 5:30 p.m. aged 56 years, 9 months and 19 days of heart disease after 36 hours of suffering. The funeral was held at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Monroe school house, conducted by Rev. Brown, M.E. minister from Tescott. The interment was made in the Monroe cemetery.
Mr. Anderson was born Feb. 16, 1834 in Huntington County, Penn. He was left motherless when quite young, from which time he drifted about for himself, always finding friends wherever he went. He went to California during the gold fever and remained until the war broke out when he enlisted in the Union service for three years. At the close of the first year he was discharged for injuries received in the artillery service. When the call for 9 months volunteers was made, he re-enlisted. At the expiration of his second term of enlistment he was honorably discharged. Was married to Miss Jane E. Mills, of Huntington Co., Penn, on Oct. 20, 1868.( date ?)
He enlisted for the third time in the Union service, this time for three years. He was taken prisoner and was confined in Andersonville prison 6 monts and 8 days, when he was paroled and wend home for 30 days. He then returned to his regiment and served until the war ended.
In 1865 he removed with his family to Iowa and from that state to Colorado township, Lincoln county, Kansas in October 1865. Mr. Anderson was an exemplary christian gentleman and a member of the M.E. church. He left as many admiting friends as any man with the same number of acquaintances, and his departure is a real loss to the community where he lived and an irreparable on to his family. He left a wife and six children.
W. R. Anderson of Colorado township, died at his home on Friday, Dec. 5, 1890 at 5:30 p.m. aged 56 years, 9 months and 19 days of heart disease after 36 hours of suffering. The funeral was held at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Monroe school house, conducted by Rev. Brown, M.E. minister from Tescott. The interment was made in the Monroe cemetery.
Mr. Anderson was born Feb. 16, 1834 in Huntington County, Penn. He was left motherless when quite young, from which time he drifted about for himself, always finding friends wherever he went. He went to California during the gold fever and remained until the war broke out when he enlisted in the Union service for three years. At the close of the first year he was discharged for injuries received in the artillery service. When the call for 9 months volunteers was made, he re-enlisted. At the expiration of his second term of enlistment he was honorably discharged. Was married to Miss Jane E. Mills, of Huntington Co., Penn, on Oct. 20, 1868.( date ?)
He enlisted for the third time in the Union service, this time for three years. He was taken prisoner and was confined in Andersonville prison 6 monts and 8 days, when he was paroled and wend home for 30 days. He then returned to his regiment and served until the war ended.
In 1865 he removed with his family to Iowa and from that state to Colorado township, Lincoln county, Kansas in October 1865. Mr. Anderson was an exemplary christian gentleman and a member of the M.E. church. He left as many admiting friends as any man with the same number of acquaintances, and his departure is a real loss to the community where he lived and an irreparable on to his family. He left a wife and six children.
Lincoln County Beacon Dec 11, 1890
W. R. Anderson of Colorado township, died at his home on Friday, Dec. 5, 1890 at 5:30 p.m. aged 56 years, 9 months and 19 days of heart disease after 36 hours of suffering. The funeral was held at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Monroe school house, conducted by Rev. Brown, M.E. minister from Tescott. The interment was made in the Monroe cemetery.
Mr. Anderson was born Feb. 16, 1834 in Huntington County, Penn. He was left motherless when quite young, from which time he drifted about for himself, always finding friends wherever he went. He went to California during the gold fever and remained until the war broke out when he enlisted in the Union service for three years. At the close of the first year he was discharged for injuries received in the artillery service. When the call for 9 months volunteers was made, he re-enlisted. At the expiration of his second term of enlistment he was honorably discharged. Was married to Miss Jane E. Mills, of Huntington Co., Penn, on Oct. 20, 1868.( date ?)
He enlisted for the third time in the Union service, this time for three years. He was taken prisoner and was confined in Andersonville prison 6 monts and 8 days, when he was paroled and wend home for 30 days. He then returned to his regiment and served until the war ended.
In 1865 he removed with his family to Iowa and from that state to Colorado township, Lincoln county, Kansas in October 1865. Mr. Anderson was an exemplary christian gentleman and a member of the M.E. church. He left as many admiting friends as any man with the same number of acquaintances, and his departure is a real loss to the community where he lived and an irreparable on to his family. He left a wife and six children.
W. R. Anderson of Colorado township, died at his home on Friday, Dec. 5, 1890 at 5:30 p.m. aged 56 years, 9 months and 19 days of heart disease after 36 hours of suffering. The funeral was held at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Monroe school house, conducted by Rev. Brown, M.E. minister from Tescott. The interment was made in the Monroe cemetery.
Mr. Anderson was born Feb. 16, 1834 in Huntington County, Penn. He was left motherless when quite young, from which time he drifted about for himself, always finding friends wherever he went. He went to California during the gold fever and remained until the war broke out when he enlisted in the Union service for three years. At the close of the first year he was discharged for injuries received in the artillery service. When the call for 9 months volunteers was made, he re-enlisted. At the expiration of his second term of enlistment he was honorably discharged. Was married to Miss Jane E. Mills, of Huntington Co., Penn, on Oct. 20, 1868.( date ?)
He enlisted for the third time in the Union service, this time for three years. He was taken prisoner and was confined in Andersonville prison 6 monts and 8 days, when he was paroled and wend home for 30 days. He then returned to his regiment and served until the war ended.
In 1865 he removed with his family to Iowa and from that state to Colorado township, Lincoln county, Kansas in October 1865. Mr. Anderson was an exemplary christian gentleman and a member of the M.E. church. He left as many admiting friends as any man with the same number of acquaintances, and his departure is a real loss to the community where he lived and an irreparable on to his family. He left a wife and six children.
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