John Burnside Anderson (1934)

ANDERSON, BOONE, ELLIS, GRIFFITH, HODSON, PRINGLE, SNOOK, SULGROVE, WILLIAMS

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/17/2011 at 15:28:23

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, August 9, 1934
Page 1

Civil War Veteran Dies in Winterset

Death of John B. Anderson Reduces Ranks of Local Civil War Veterans

The ever-fading ranks of the Civil war veterans in Madison county were further reduced last Friday with the death of John B. Anderson, which occurred in Winterset. He was 91 years old.

A resident of Madison county since early youth, and a veteran of nearly four years campaigning in the Civil war, Mr. Anderson, at the time of his death, was one of the four surviving members of the local post of the G. A. R.

Mr. Anderson was born November 7, 1842, in Lawrence county, Indiana. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy C. Anderson. A few years later the family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, then to Iowa county, Iowa, and finally to Madison county.

At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in Company I, Fourth Iowa cavalry, and served through the war. During the Vicksburg campaign he was captured by the Confederates when his horse was shot and he was pinned under the animal. He was taken first to Macon, Georgia, and then to Libby prison at Richmond, Virginia, from were he was exchanged three months later.

After the war he was engaged in farming, and for many years was also engaged in the threshing machine business. He never married. His last few years were spent in Winterset.

The deceased is survived by two nephews and eight nieces. They are Ralph Anderson of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Roy Anderson of Birmingham, California; Mrs. Alice Pringle of Des Moines; Mrs. Ethel Boone of Chicago; Mrs. Cora Williams of Farlin, Iowa; Mrs. May Hodson of Hayfield, Iowa; Mrs. Mylie Ellis of Shawnee, Oklahoma, Mrs. Orpha Snook of Sapulpa, Oklahoma; Mrs. Lucy Griffith, of Des Moines and Mrs. Mary Sulgrove of Clayton, New Mexico.

Funeral services were held Sunday at 2 p.m. from the Tidrick funeral home, in charge of the Rev. L. H. Lanning. Burial was made in the old soldiers’ plot in the Winterset cemetery.

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