OLD SOLDIER AT REST
Funeral of Late Charles Anderson Largely Attended
Special to The Herald
LAPEL, Oct. 24. – The funeral of the late Charles Anderson was held this morning from the Prairie Baptist church, west of Lapel. Interment was made in the cemetery nearby. Many friends attended. Mr. Anderson died at 6 o'clock Sunday morning at his home in Fishersburg. He had been in poor health for some time. Ten years ago Mr. Anderson had his right leg amputated between the hip and knee. He was working with a threshing machine which became choked up and in attempting to push the obstruction aside with his foot he was caught in the machinery and inured so that amputation was necessary. In March, 1909, and again in 1910, he suffered strokes of paralysis and has had several serious attacks of illness at various times since. Mr. Anderson leaves a wife who was formerly Miss Margaret Teeters. They had no children. He was a member of the G. A. R. Post, Lapel. He enlisted in Company A, 19th Indiana Regiment in 1861, and reenlisted in Company K, 8th Indiana Cavalry, in 1863. He was honorably discharged in August 1865. He was 74 years of age.
Funeral of Late Charles Anderson Largely Attended
Special to The Herald
LAPEL, Oct. 24. – The funeral of the late Charles Anderson was held this morning from the Prairie Baptist church, west of Lapel. Interment was made in the cemetery nearby. Many friends attended. Mr. Anderson died at 6 o'clock Sunday morning at his home in Fishersburg. He had been in poor health for some time. Ten years ago Mr. Anderson had his right leg amputated between the hip and knee. He was working with a threshing machine which became choked up and in attempting to push the obstruction aside with his foot he was caught in the machinery and inured so that amputation was necessary. In March, 1909, and again in 1910, he suffered strokes of paralysis and has had several serious attacks of illness at various times since. Mr. Anderson leaves a wife who was formerly Miss Margaret Teeters. They had no children. He was a member of the G. A. R. Post, Lapel. He enlisted in Company A, 19th Indiana Regiment in 1861, and reenlisted in Company K, 8th Indiana Cavalry, in 1863. He was honorably discharged in August 1865. He was 74 years of age.
OLD SOLDIER AT REST
Funeral of Late Charles Anderson Largely Attended
Special to The Herald
LAPEL, Oct. 24. – The funeral of the late Charles Anderson was held this morning from the Prairie Baptist church, west of Lapel. Interment was made in the cemetery nearby. Many friends attended. Mr. Anderson died at 6 o'clock Sunday morning at his home in Fishersburg. He had been in poor health for some time. Ten years ago Mr. Anderson had his right leg amputated between the hip and knee. He was working with a threshing machine which became choked up and in attempting to push the obstruction aside with his foot he was caught in the machinery and inured so that amputation was necessary. In March, 1909, and again in 1910, he suffered strokes of paralysis and has had several serious attacks of illness at various times since. Mr. Anderson leaves a wife who was formerly Miss Margaret Teeters. They had no children. He was a member of the G. A. R. Post, Lapel. He enlisted in Company A, 19th Indiana Regiment in 1861, and reenlisted in Company K, 8th Indiana Cavalry, in 1863. He was honorably discharged in August 1865. He was 74 years of age.
Funeral of Late Charles Anderson Largely Attended
Special to The Herald
LAPEL, Oct. 24. – The funeral of the late Charles Anderson was held this morning from the Prairie Baptist church, west of Lapel. Interment was made in the cemetery nearby. Many friends attended. Mr. Anderson died at 6 o'clock Sunday morning at his home in Fishersburg. He had been in poor health for some time. Ten years ago Mr. Anderson had his right leg amputated between the hip and knee. He was working with a threshing machine which became choked up and in attempting to push the obstruction aside with his foot he was caught in the machinery and inured so that amputation was necessary. In March, 1909, and again in 1910, he suffered strokes of paralysis and has had several serious attacks of illness at various times since. Mr. Anderson leaves a wife who was formerly Miss Margaret Teeters. They had no children. He was a member of the G. A. R. Post, Lapel. He enlisted in Company A, 19th Indiana Regiment in 1861, and reenlisted in Company K, 8th Indiana Cavalry, in 1863. He was honorably discharged in August 1865. He was 74 years of age.
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