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William D. Anderson

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William D. Anderson

Birth
Blair County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
9 Feb 1884 (aged 50–51)
Burial
Baileys Corner, Jasper County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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A Veteran: Pvt. Co. B, 105 Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry
Archive records show William Anderson's military service. He served as a teamster or a wagoner. He enlisted at Pittsburg; became a cook at Point Lookout and was discharged for disability in Jan. 1863, suffering with incipient consumption in both lungs. In 1877, in Jasper County, Indiana, he made application for an Invalid Army Pension. He stated that while in the service, at a place called Harrison's Landing, in Virginia, he contracted typhoid fever and by hardships and exposure, chronic diarrhoea, etc. He was unfitted for manual labor. He died a few years later, his tombstone said 1883 , his widow's application for pension said he died 9th Feb. 1884. His widow was Frances Brown Hart, widow of Sylvester Hart, he died of illnesses contracted while in military service in the Civil War. There were children of each marriage.
William and his first wife, Catherine are found in the following census.
1860 Union, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania census
William Anderson, age 27, b. PA
Catherine Anderson, age 21, b. PA
John Anderson, age 4, b. PA
David Anderson, age 2, b. PA

1870 Van Buren County, Michigan Census
Wm. Anderson, age 37, b. 1833 PA
Catherine Anderson, age 31, b. 1837 PA
John W. Anderson, age 14, b. 1856 PA
Dav. H. Anderson, age 12, b. 1858 PA
Martha J. Anderson, age 9, b. 1861 PA
Annie L. Anderson, age 6, b. 1864 PA
Ida M. Anderson, age 4, b. 1866 IN

Catherine Anderson died 3 May 1875 Jasper County, Indiana.
William Anderson married the widow Frances A. Hart 26 Aug 1875 Jasper County, Indiana.

1880 Gillam Township, Jasper County, Indiana
William Anderson, age 47, b. PA
Frances A. Anderson, age 39, b. IN
Thomas J. Anderson, age 3, b. IN
Preston T. Anderson, age 2, b. IN
Ida M. Hart, step-daughter, age 8, b. IN

We find three Hart children in the cemetery, aged 1, 2 and 4 years. A daughter, Flora Hart b. 1859 married Preston Querry; Frank B. 1863, Ida b. 1872, married Commer and Minshall, buried in the south section.

Older residents of Gillam Township say that both William Anderson and Sylvester Hart served as pastors of Independence Church.
A Veteran: Pvt. Co. B, 105 Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry
Archive records show William Anderson's military service. He served as a teamster or a wagoner. He enlisted at Pittsburg; became a cook at Point Lookout and was discharged for disability in Jan. 1863, suffering with incipient consumption in both lungs. In 1877, in Jasper County, Indiana, he made application for an Invalid Army Pension. He stated that while in the service, at a place called Harrison's Landing, in Virginia, he contracted typhoid fever and by hardships and exposure, chronic diarrhoea, etc. He was unfitted for manual labor. He died a few years later, his tombstone said 1883 , his widow's application for pension said he died 9th Feb. 1884. His widow was Frances Brown Hart, widow of Sylvester Hart, he died of illnesses contracted while in military service in the Civil War. There were children of each marriage.
William and his first wife, Catherine are found in the following census.
1860 Union, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania census
William Anderson, age 27, b. PA
Catherine Anderson, age 21, b. PA
John Anderson, age 4, b. PA
David Anderson, age 2, b. PA

1870 Van Buren County, Michigan Census
Wm. Anderson, age 37, b. 1833 PA
Catherine Anderson, age 31, b. 1837 PA
John W. Anderson, age 14, b. 1856 PA
Dav. H. Anderson, age 12, b. 1858 PA
Martha J. Anderson, age 9, b. 1861 PA
Annie L. Anderson, age 6, b. 1864 PA
Ida M. Anderson, age 4, b. 1866 IN

Catherine Anderson died 3 May 1875 Jasper County, Indiana.
William Anderson married the widow Frances A. Hart 26 Aug 1875 Jasper County, Indiana.

1880 Gillam Township, Jasper County, Indiana
William Anderson, age 47, b. PA
Frances A. Anderson, age 39, b. IN
Thomas J. Anderson, age 3, b. IN
Preston T. Anderson, age 2, b. IN
Ida M. Hart, step-daughter, age 8, b. IN

We find three Hart children in the cemetery, aged 1, 2 and 4 years. A daughter, Flora Hart b. 1859 married Preston Querry; Frank B. 1863, Ida b. 1872, married Commer and Minshall, buried in the south section.

Older residents of Gillam Township say that both William Anderson and Sylvester Hart served as pastors of Independence Church.


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