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Sarah Travers Lewis <I>Scott</I> Anderson

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Sarah Travers Lewis Scott Anderson

Birth
Virginia, USA
Death
6 Feb 1926 (aged 78)
Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Burial
Ivy, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Sarah was a family historian of the Lewis and Meriwether families. In 1938 a book of her research titled "Lewises, Meriwethers and Their Kin" was published by her daughter. She was the first cousin twice removed from Capt. Meriwether Lewis. She was also the third cousin and fourth cousin once removed of her husband, Charles Anderson, who was the grandnephew of Capt. Lewis.

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The Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia), 12 Feb 1926, Friday

Mrs. Charles Anderson.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., Feb. 11.—The funeral of Mrs. Charles Harper Andrson, who died at the residence of her son, Dr. M. L. Anderson, in Richmond, were held at noon at “Locust Hill,” formerly the home of Meriwether Lewis, at Ivy, this county.

Surviving Mrs. Anderson are three sons and two daughters—Dr. M. D Anderson, of Richmond; C. Harper Anderson, of Galveston, Texas; Rev. Alden S. Anderson, of North Carolina; Mrs. George Gordon, of Stafford County, and Mrs. Lucian Ward, of West Virginia.

TMSI [3982] M1221/M128
Sarah was a family historian of the Lewis and Meriwether families. In 1938 a book of her research titled "Lewises, Meriwethers and Their Kin" was published by her daughter. She was the first cousin twice removed from Capt. Meriwether Lewis. She was also the third cousin and fourth cousin once removed of her husband, Charles Anderson, who was the grandnephew of Capt. Lewis.

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The Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia), 12 Feb 1926, Friday

Mrs. Charles Anderson.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., Feb. 11.—The funeral of Mrs. Charles Harper Andrson, who died at the residence of her son, Dr. M. L. Anderson, in Richmond, were held at noon at “Locust Hill,” formerly the home of Meriwether Lewis, at Ivy, this county.

Surviving Mrs. Anderson are three sons and two daughters—Dr. M. D Anderson, of Richmond; C. Harper Anderson, of Galveston, Texas; Rev. Alden S. Anderson, of North Carolina; Mrs. George Gordon, of Stafford County, and Mrs. Lucian Ward, of West Virginia.

TMSI [3982] M1221/M128

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SARAH TRAVERS LEWIS SCOTT
WIFE OF
CHARLES HARPER ANDERSON
MARCH 31, 1847
FEB. 6, 1926

"SHE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH"

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