Son of Ervin Anderson and Elizabeth Jane Lochridge. Married Daisey Bolinger on 11 Aug 1887 in Obion Co., They eloped as she was only 16 years old and he was 11 years older than she was.

Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 75-77. McCracken Co.

LAWRENCE B. ANDERSON

Lawrence B. Anderson, formerly a general insurance agent of Mayfield,
now of Paducah, is a native of Graves county, Kentucky, born February 1,
1860. Mr. Anderson is a son of Ervine and Eliza (Lockridge) Anderson. His
father was the first white child born in Graves county, Kentucky, after the
organization of the county. The date of his nativity was January 21, 1820.
He was the son of John and Rebecca (Davenport) Anderson.
John Anderson, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was born in
what is now Albermarle [sic] county, North Carolina, [sic] and there was
reared and educated. He then as a young man came to Kentucky, at a time
when the Jackson Purchase had not yet been organized into counties. He was
then a married man, having married Miss Rebecca Davenport, in North
Carolina. He cleared up his farm, and in 1821, just as Graves county was
formed, he was elected clerk of the county and circuit courts. At that
time the present offices of county clerk and circuit clerk were united. He
continued in this office until his death in 1842. He studied law and
practiced irregularly; was a man of great natural ability, and stood very
high in the esteem of his fellow citizens. He served in the war of 1812,
and was a Whig in politics.
On coming to Kentucky he first settled in Caldwell county, Kentucky.
The following is the copy of a record made in his own writing: "Emigrated
from Caldwell county, Kentucky, to the district of country west of the
Tennessee river, and settled on Mayfield creek in the woods, two and a half
miles north of the present site of the town of Mayfield. We had to make
our way through the woods from the Tennessee river and were three days on
the route, encamping in the woods at night and threading our way through
the thicket by day. We arrived on the 27th of October, 1819, at our place
of future residence, and pitched our camp. I built cabins and cleared
land, and resided at that place until December, 1824, when the county of
Graves having recently been organized, and myself appointed clerk of the
county and circuit courts, I moved to the town of Mayfield." Here he ever
afterward lived.
His son Ervine served as his deputy in the office of clerk of the
county and circuit courts, to which office he was afterward several times
elected, and was serving therein where the Civil war came on. During the
war he began the practice of law. With the change of the Constitution he
was again elected county and circuit clerk; was a representative of his
county in the legislature in 1871-72, and continued to practice law until
his death, July 11, 1876. He was a Cumberland Presbyterian, a Mason and a
Democrat.
Eliza (Lockridge) Anderson, the mother of our subject, was born in
Graves county, Kentucky, May 8, 1829, and was married to Ervine Anderson,
October 15, 1844. To the marriage were born nine children, four sons and
five daughters, namely: Lawrence B., John, Wiley, Annie, Amelia, Edith,
Emily, Albert and Hester. The mother of these children was a daughter of
Robert D. Lockridge, born in Lexington, Kentucky, November 5, 1804. He
married Elizabeth Buchanan, of Logan county, in 1827. He was a physician
and died in Graves county in 1876. He was a son of Robert Lockridge, who
was a pioneer of Murray [sic] county, Tennessee, whither he removed from
Lexington.
In Mayfield, Lawrence B. Anderson was educated. He first taught
school and then took up the practice of law, having been admitted to the
bar in 1886. In 1890 he was elected county judge of Graves county, and
made a good officer in that position, leaving which he took up the
insurance business. Subsequently he served as commissioner of insurance
for the state, having only recently retired from this position. Mr.
Anderson is and always has been a Democrat in politics. Fraternally he is
a Knight of Pythias, and he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.
He was married, August 11, 1888, to Miss Daisy D. Bollinger, daughter of
J.F. Bollinger, of Mayfield.
In every official relation Mr. Anderson has been indefatigable in the
discharge of duty, and by reason of his integrity and fidelity, has won the
esteem and confidence of the public, and to-day he stands as a
representative of the many excellent men to whom the great state of
Kentucky sets claim.