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Robert Marshall Anderson

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Robert Marshall Anderson

Birth
Kentucky, USA
Death
17 Oct 1932 (aged 88)
Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section O, Lot 28
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Robert M. Anderson, 89, died at his home in Hopkinsville at 4 o'clock this morning following sixteen weeks illness, which had its inception In a paralytic stroke.

He had been a deacon In the Hopkinsville Baptist church for years, was a member of Rlzpah Temple, Shrine, and the oldest member in point of membership in the state.

Surviving are three children, Mrs. D. A. Elgin, Beverly Hills, Calif., formerly of Madisonville, Mrs. B. M. Moss and Mrs. F. F. Henderson, both of Hopkinsville, and large number of grandchildren, one of whom is Mrs. L. G. Hayes, East Arch street.

Funeral services will be conducted at Hopkinsville, Tuesday and burial will be in Riverside cemetery there.

--The Messenger (Madisonville, Kentucky), Monday October 17, 1932; Page 1.
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ROBERT M. ANDERSON'S father, John Anderson, now of Hopkinsville, Ky., was born in 1820, in Christian County, and is a son of Josiah Anderson, of whom mention is made in the history of Hamby Precinct. In 1840 he was married to Miss Pernecia Coon, by whom he had two children - Mrs. M. D. Meacham and Robert M. Anderson. Mrs. John Anderson died in this county in 1881. Robert M. was born November 23, 1843. He learned the trade of carpenter, which he followed until 1873, with the exception of a short interval of time, during which he served as Assistant Postmaster at Hopkinsville.

He was married in Shelby County, Ky., in 1866, to Miss Melissa A., daughter of J. M. Woods. She was born in Shelby County, December 30, 1842. Since 1873 Mr. Anderson has been merchandising, and is now conducting a flourishing grocery business on Court Street, between Virginia and Main Streets. He is a member of the Masonic Order; Knights of Honor; Knights of Pythias; Odd Fellows, and is Grand patriarch of the Grand Encampment of the I. O. O. F., State of Kentucky.

Mr. Anderson sustained a severe loss in the conflagration of October, 1882, and in 1883 rebuilt a substantial business house on the site of the former, at a cost of $3,700. Of his four children, the eldest, Ada, is deceased; those living are Florence, Daisey and May Anderson.

--County of Christian, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 340-341. (Submitted by contributor # 47175704.)
Robert M. Anderson, 89, died at his home in Hopkinsville at 4 o'clock this morning following sixteen weeks illness, which had its inception In a paralytic stroke.

He had been a deacon In the Hopkinsville Baptist church for years, was a member of Rlzpah Temple, Shrine, and the oldest member in point of membership in the state.

Surviving are three children, Mrs. D. A. Elgin, Beverly Hills, Calif., formerly of Madisonville, Mrs. B. M. Moss and Mrs. F. F. Henderson, both of Hopkinsville, and large number of grandchildren, one of whom is Mrs. L. G. Hayes, East Arch street.

Funeral services will be conducted at Hopkinsville, Tuesday and burial will be in Riverside cemetery there.

--The Messenger (Madisonville, Kentucky), Monday October 17, 1932; Page 1.
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ROBERT M. ANDERSON'S father, John Anderson, now of Hopkinsville, Ky., was born in 1820, in Christian County, and is a son of Josiah Anderson, of whom mention is made in the history of Hamby Precinct. In 1840 he was married to Miss Pernecia Coon, by whom he had two children - Mrs. M. D. Meacham and Robert M. Anderson. Mrs. John Anderson died in this county in 1881. Robert M. was born November 23, 1843. He learned the trade of carpenter, which he followed until 1873, with the exception of a short interval of time, during which he served as Assistant Postmaster at Hopkinsville.

He was married in Shelby County, Ky., in 1866, to Miss Melissa A., daughter of J. M. Woods. She was born in Shelby County, December 30, 1842. Since 1873 Mr. Anderson has been merchandising, and is now conducting a flourishing grocery business on Court Street, between Virginia and Main Streets. He is a member of the Masonic Order; Knights of Honor; Knights of Pythias; Odd Fellows, and is Grand patriarch of the Grand Encampment of the I. O. O. F., State of Kentucky.

Mr. Anderson sustained a severe loss in the conflagration of October, 1882, and in 1883 rebuilt a substantial business house on the site of the former, at a cost of $3,700. Of his four children, the eldest, Ada, is deceased; those living are Florence, Daisey and May Anderson.

--County of Christian, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 340-341. (Submitted by contributor # 47175704.)


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