From: The McPherson Weekly Republican (McPherson, Kansas)

JANET WILSON (MUIR) ANDERSON

Mrs. James Anderson passed away March 14, 1914, at her home in Roxbury, Kansas, after about a one month illness. Her maiden name was Janet Wilson Muir. She was married to James Anderson on February, 14, 1861 in Randolph County, Illinois. To them were born ten children, five sons and five daughters. Three of these children had preceded her to their final home. The five sons (Bryce, Robert, Charles, William and Edward), two daughters (Mrs. Margaret S. “Maggie” Crowther and Mrs. Mary Ann “Mayme” Tolle), live near and were present during her illness and at her funeral. The family circle widened in the Good Providence of God till twenty-nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren came to gladden their hearts. Sister Anderson also leaves two brothers and two sisters living – Bryce and John Muir, Mrs. Robert Craig of Salina and a sister in Illinois.

Mrs. Anderson was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland on January 17, 1839, and was 75 years old at the time of her death. In 1854 her parents came to America and the ship was lost and went down two hours after they had taken off. She often spoke of this and acknowledged God’s preservation in it all. They settled in Randolph County, Illinois, and in 1877 came to McPherson County, Kansas, purchased a home near Roxbury and have lived on the homestead for the last 27 years.

The services were conducted in the Roxbury Presbyterian Church, by the pastor, assisted by the M.E. pastor. The session of the church and the S.S. Superintendent tenderly bore the body to its resting place in the Roxbury cemetery, attended by the largest body of loving friends and neighbors ever assembled at a funeral in Roxbury.
Courtesy Dennis Lilly