Charles Ralston Anderson is well documented in census and other records, as well as in family photos. He was NOT born in 1839, he was NOT in the New York Infantry, and he did NOT fight in the Civil War (as the marker that has been placed for him suggests). He is on the 1860 census (two years old), and he was a young child when the Civil War started. A descendant of the Anderson family who has researched the question advises that there was a Charles Anderson in the company indicated on the marker, but he was born in the Midwest (and he was a generation older than Charles Ralston Anderson).
It appears that the error occurred because someone (apparently a civic group) at some point tried to match names in the cemetery with military records in order to place military headstones, and combined the information for two different men named Charles R. Anderson. Charles' census and other records show that his parents were William Carroll Anderson and Aletha Draper.
Charles and Rose were married March 12, 1885, in Colusa County. Charles was NOT married to a woman named Frankie Mae as some researchers indicate; that was the name of one of his daughters. Nothing is known about the other daughters (likely infants) who apparently were buried in the same plot with Charles and Rose, according to the inscription on the gravestone.
It appears that the error occurred because someone (apparently a civic group) at some point tried to match names in the cemetery with military records in order to place military headstones, and combined the information for two different men named Charles R. Anderson. Charles' census and other records show that his parents were William Carroll Anderson and Aletha Draper.
Charles and Rose were married March 12, 1885, in Colusa County. Charles was NOT married to a woman named Frankie Mae as some researchers indicate; that was the name of one of his daughters. Nothing is known about the other daughters (likely infants) who apparently were buried in the same plot with Charles and Rose, according to the inscription on the gravestone.
Charles Ralston Anderson is well documented in census and other records, as well as in family photos. He was NOT born in 1839, he was NOT in the New York Infantry, and he did NOT fight in the Civil War (as the marker that has been placed for him suggests). He is on the 1860 census (two years old), and he was a young child when the Civil War started. A descendant of the Anderson family who has researched the question advises that there was a Charles Anderson in the company indicated on the marker, but he was born in the Midwest (and he was a generation older than Charles Ralston Anderson).
It appears that the error occurred because someone (apparently a civic group) at some point tried to match names in the cemetery with military records in order to place military headstones, and combined the information for two different men named Charles R. Anderson. Charles' census and other records show that his parents were William Carroll Anderson and Aletha Draper.
Charles and Rose were married March 12, 1885, in Colusa County. Charles was NOT married to a woman named Frankie Mae as some researchers indicate; that was the name of one of his daughters. Nothing is known about the other daughters (likely infants) who apparently were buried in the same plot with Charles and Rose, according to the inscription on the gravestone.
It appears that the error occurred because someone (apparently a civic group) at some point tried to match names in the cemetery with military records in order to place military headstones, and combined the information for two different men named Charles R. Anderson. Charles' census and other records show that his parents were William Carroll Anderson and Aletha Draper.
Charles and Rose were married March 12, 1885, in Colusa County. Charles was NOT married to a woman named Frankie Mae as some researchers indicate; that was the name of one of his daughters. Nothing is known about the other daughters (likely infants) who apparently were buried in the same plot with Charles and Rose, according to the inscription on the gravestone.
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date of death is January 7, 1916, per California death index 1905-1939 (listed as Charles L Anderson, age 56, died in Colusa County)
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