ELEANOR "CLAISEN" BRONAUGH was born on 25 June 1809 in Lincoln County, Kentucky and was the sixth known child of TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH and his first spouse ELIZABETH JANE "JENNIE" (GILMOUR) BRONAUGH. She was most likely named after her maternal grandmother ELEANOR, the wife of her grandfather JAMES GILMOUR, and whose maiden name we believe was CALLISON. According the HENRY PERRIN in the HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY published in 1884, the CALLISON's along with the TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH and JAMES GILMOUR were a founding family of the Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church, the first Presbyterian Church in the south part of Christian County, Kentucky

ELEANOR CLAISEN BRONAUGH spent her early years with her family in Lincoln County, Kentucky where the family lived on the "Hanging Fork of the Dix River" near present day Stanford. In about 1815 both the BRONAUGH and GILMOUR families sold their land in Lincoln County, Kentucky and moved to Christian County, Kentucky and settled in adjacent homes on the same plantation.

After 1815, ELEANOR CLAISEN BRONAUGH lived the remainder of her youth in Christian County, Kentucky and on 27 March 1828, married WILLIAM N. ANDERSON there. They established their home on the large plantation owned by her father TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH and they became the parents of eight children that we can document, six of which were born in Kentucky and two in Missouri.

ELEANOR CLAISEN [BRONAUGH] ANDERSON died on 8 April 1860 in Phelps County, Missouri and her husband, WILLIAM N. ANDERSON died there on 16 July 1860.

The children of ELEANOR CLAISEN [BRONAUGH] and her husband
WILLIAM N. ANDERSON:

1. BARBARA JANE ANDERSON, born on 6 January 1829 in Christian County, Kentucky; married JOHN F. DAVIS on 27 August 1847 in Crawford County, Missouri; she died on 6 May 1868 in Phelps County, Missouri.

2. GARLAND ANDERSON, born on 8 January 1831 in Christian County, Kentucky; married MARTHA ANN MCDANIEL on 3 December 1868 in Tulare County, California; he died on 16 December 1892 in Tulare, Tulare County, California.

3. JAMES GARLAND ANDERSON, born on 18 July 1833 in Christian County, Kentucky; married MARY DEVAULT on 15 January 1857 in Crawford County, Missouri; he died in August 1862 in the Civil War.

4. NANCY ANDERSON, born on 11 June 1835 in Christian County, Kentucky; married GEORGE HAMILTON on 9 November 1852 in Crawford County, Missouri; she died on 9 April 1861 in Cartwright, Sangamon County, Illinois

5. WILLIAM TOLIVER ANDERSON, born on 14 February 1838 in Christian County, Kentucky; married MELISSA CAROLINE COX on 4 September 1860 in Phelps County, Missouri; he died on 12 July 1863 "after being wounded at the Civil War Battle of Helena in Phillips County, Arkansas".

6. MALINDA "LINDA" B. ANDERSON, born on 29 July 1840 in Christian County, Kentucky; married JOSEPH KINKEADE on 1 June 1858 in Phelps County, Missouri; she died on 1 May 1864 Gasconade County, Missouri.

7. ROBERT F. ANDERSON, born on 19 February 1843 in Missouri; he died in Phelps County, Missouri on 4 October 1851.

8. HIRAM "HENRY" DEVAULT ANDERSON, born on 12 January 1846 in Missouri [probably Crawford County]; married MARY A. PORTER from Staffordshire, England on 23 May 1869 in St. Clair County, Illinois; he died on 27 December 1910 in Belleville, St. Clair County, Indiana.

9. JOHN G. ANDERSON, born on 29 October 1848 in Missouri [probably in Crawford County].