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Robert N. Anderson

Birth
Buckingham County, Virginia, USA
Death
11 Jan 1874 (aged 62–63)
Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
Plot
C64 or C65
Memorial ID
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Physician.

Husband of Elizabeth, whom he married about 1838, perhaps on 15 November 1838 in Kanawha county (now West Virginia).

Father of Lucy M. (Anderson) Payne, Mary Ellen Anderson and Sarah D. Anderson

"Robert N. Anderson (c1812 - ), a Virginia native, lived in Missouri before settling in Madison Parish, where he was the physician for the Joseph E. Davis family. Anderson became an army surgeon with the rank of major in July 1861 and served at several posts in Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. While he was in charge of Officers' Hospital in Lauderdale Springs in 1863, Joseph Davis and his clan moved in with the Andersons. The two families also shared quarters in Tuscaloosa from early 1864 until the end of the war." - according to the biographical sketch on page 353, Volume 8, of the Jefferson Davis Papers.

"ANDERSON - At Hannibal, Missouri, on the 11th inst., Dr. Robert N. Anderson, a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, and for many years a citizen of Mississippi and Louisiana, in the 64th year of his age." - in the Wednesday, January 28, 1874 Cincinnati (Ohio) Daily Enquirer, p. 5.
Physician.

Husband of Elizabeth, whom he married about 1838, perhaps on 15 November 1838 in Kanawha county (now West Virginia).

Father of Lucy M. (Anderson) Payne, Mary Ellen Anderson and Sarah D. Anderson

"Robert N. Anderson (c1812 - ), a Virginia native, lived in Missouri before settling in Madison Parish, where he was the physician for the Joseph E. Davis family. Anderson became an army surgeon with the rank of major in July 1861 and served at several posts in Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. While he was in charge of Officers' Hospital in Lauderdale Springs in 1863, Joseph Davis and his clan moved in with the Andersons. The two families also shared quarters in Tuscaloosa from early 1864 until the end of the war." - according to the biographical sketch on page 353, Volume 8, of the Jefferson Davis Papers.

"ANDERSON - At Hannibal, Missouri, on the 11th inst., Dr. Robert N. Anderson, a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, and for many years a citizen of Mississippi and Louisiana, in the 64th year of his age." - in the Wednesday, January 28, 1874 Cincinnati (Ohio) Daily Enquirer, p. 5.


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