Civil War: Company D, 22nd Iowa Infantry
Francis M. Anderson was the son of Major Anderson and Narcissa "Nancy" Benninton Morton (born 1807 in Maryland). He was living with his parents, seven siblings, and grandfather at Madison, Putnam County, Indiana, in 1850. His family left Indiana in 1853 and settled at Troy, Monroe County, Iowa. He enlisted as a private at nearby Albia, Iowa, July 28, 1862, and was mustered into Company D, 22nd Iowa Infantry. He was promoted 8th Corporal March 13, 1863; 4th Corporal August 1, 1863; and 3rd Corporal December 22, 1863. Corporal Anderson was mustered out at Savannah, Georgia, July 25, 1865. He returned home to Troy and married Mary (surname unknown; born 1842 in Kentucky). By 1880 he had relocated his family to Cherryvale, Kansas, and his widowed father was living with him. Francis applied for a Civil War veteran's pension and received certificate No. 645,360. He was a widowed farmer still living at Cherryvale when he was admitted to the Leavenworth Soldiers' Home January 24, 1901. He was released on his own request July 21, 1907, and transferred to the Pacific Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, at Sawtelle (Los Angeles), California, where he checked in January 7, 1908. It was at the Sawtelle Home that he committed suicide by taking an overdose of morphine. His Soldiers' Home record shows his next-of-kin as his brother-in-law, James H. Kessler, of Mound Valley, Kansas. James Kessler was also a veteran of Company D, 22nd Iowa Infantry. James married Francis' sister Minerva, who died in 1903.
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OLD SOLDIERS COMMIT SUICIDE
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 10 — Two old soldiers, veterans of the civil war, committed suicide at the national home at Sawtelle today.
Samuel Wiggins, 70 years of age, a veteran of Company I of the Twenty-second New Hampshire Cavalry, severed the arteries in his wrists' and bled to death. He was a patient in the tuberculosis ward.
Francis M. Anderson, 69 years of age, a member of Company D, Twenty-second lowa Infantry, took morphine and expired. He was afflicted with asthma.
(San Francisco Call, Vol. 104, No. 164, November 11, 1908)
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Biography by Steve
Francis M. Anderson was the son of Major Anderson and Narcissa "Nancy" Benninton Morton (born 1807 in Maryland). He was living with his parents, seven siblings, and grandfather at Madison, Putnam County, Indiana, in 1850. His family left Indiana in 1853 and settled at Troy, Monroe County, Iowa. He enlisted as a private at nearby Albia, Iowa, July 28, 1862, and was mustered into Company D, 22nd Iowa Infantry. He was promoted 8th Corporal March 13, 1863; 4th Corporal August 1, 1863; and 3rd Corporal December 22, 1863. Corporal Anderson was mustered out at Savannah, Georgia, July 25, 1865. He returned home to Troy and married Mary (surname unknown; born 1842 in Kentucky). By 1880 he had relocated his family to Cherryvale, Kansas, and his widowed father was living with him. Francis applied for a Civil War veteran's pension and received certificate No. 645,360. He was a widowed farmer still living at Cherryvale when he was admitted to the Leavenworth Soldiers' Home January 24, 1901. He was released on his own request July 21, 1907, and transferred to the Pacific Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, at Sawtelle (Los Angeles), California, where he checked in January 7, 1908. It was at the Sawtelle Home that he committed suicide by taking an overdose of morphine. His Soldiers' Home record shows his next-of-kin as his brother-in-law, James H. Kessler, of Mound Valley, Kansas. James Kessler was also a veteran of Company D, 22nd Iowa Infantry. James married Francis' sister Minerva, who died in 1903.
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OLD SOLDIERS COMMIT SUICIDE
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 10 — Two old soldiers, veterans of the civil war, committed suicide at the national home at Sawtelle today.
Samuel Wiggins, 70 years of age, a veteran of Company I of the Twenty-second New Hampshire Cavalry, severed the arteries in his wrists' and bled to death. He was a patient in the tuberculosis ward.
Francis M. Anderson, 69 years of age, a member of Company D, Twenty-second lowa Infantry, took morphine and expired. He was afflicted with asthma.
(San Francisco Call, Vol. 104, No. 164, November 11, 1908)
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Biography by Steve
Civil War: Company D, 22nd Iowa Infantry
Francis M. Anderson was the son of Major Anderson and Narcissa "Nancy" Benninton Morton (born 1807 in Maryland). He was living with his parents, seven siblings, and grandfather at Madison, Putnam County, Indiana, in 1850. His family left Indiana in 1853 and settled at Troy, Monroe County, Iowa. He enlisted as a private at nearby Albia, Iowa, July 28, 1862, and was mustered into Company D, 22nd Iowa Infantry. He was promoted 8th Corporal March 13, 1863; 4th Corporal August 1, 1863; and 3rd Corporal December 22, 1863. Corporal Anderson was mustered out at Savannah, Georgia, July 25, 1865. He returned home to Troy and married Mary (surname unknown; born 1842 in Kentucky). By 1880 he had relocated his family to Cherryvale, Kansas, and his widowed father was living with him. Francis applied for a Civil War veteran's pension and received certificate No. 645,360. He was a widowed farmer still living at Cherryvale when he was admitted to the Leavenworth Soldiers' Home January 24, 1901. He was released on his own request July 21, 1907, and transferred to the Pacific Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, at Sawtelle (Los Angeles), California, where he checked in January 7, 1908. It was at the Sawtelle Home that he committed suicide by taking an overdose of morphine. His Soldiers' Home record shows his next-of-kin as his brother-in-law, James H. Kessler, of Mound Valley, Kansas. James Kessler was also a veteran of Company D, 22nd Iowa Infantry. James married Francis' sister Minerva, who died in 1903.
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OLD SOLDIERS COMMIT SUICIDE
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 10 — Two old soldiers, veterans of the civil war, committed suicide at the national home at Sawtelle today.
Samuel Wiggins, 70 years of age, a veteran of Company I of the Twenty-second New Hampshire Cavalry, severed the arteries in his wrists' and bled to death. He was a patient in the tuberculosis ward.
Francis M. Anderson, 69 years of age, a member of Company D, Twenty-second lowa Infantry, took morphine and expired. He was afflicted with asthma.
(San Francisco Call, Vol. 104, No. 164, November 11, 1908)
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Biography by Steve
Francis M. Anderson was the son of Major Anderson and Narcissa "Nancy" Benninton Morton (born 1807 in Maryland). He was living with his parents, seven siblings, and grandfather at Madison, Putnam County, Indiana, in 1850. His family left Indiana in 1853 and settled at Troy, Monroe County, Iowa. He enlisted as a private at nearby Albia, Iowa, July 28, 1862, and was mustered into Company D, 22nd Iowa Infantry. He was promoted 8th Corporal March 13, 1863; 4th Corporal August 1, 1863; and 3rd Corporal December 22, 1863. Corporal Anderson was mustered out at Savannah, Georgia, July 25, 1865. He returned home to Troy and married Mary (surname unknown; born 1842 in Kentucky). By 1880 he had relocated his family to Cherryvale, Kansas, and his widowed father was living with him. Francis applied for a Civil War veteran's pension and received certificate No. 645,360. He was a widowed farmer still living at Cherryvale when he was admitted to the Leavenworth Soldiers' Home January 24, 1901. He was released on his own request July 21, 1907, and transferred to the Pacific Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, at Sawtelle (Los Angeles), California, where he checked in January 7, 1908. It was at the Sawtelle Home that he committed suicide by taking an overdose of morphine. His Soldiers' Home record shows his next-of-kin as his brother-in-law, James H. Kessler, of Mound Valley, Kansas. James Kessler was also a veteran of Company D, 22nd Iowa Infantry. James married Francis' sister Minerva, who died in 1903.
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OLD SOLDIERS COMMIT SUICIDE
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 10 — Two old soldiers, veterans of the civil war, committed suicide at the national home at Sawtelle today.
Samuel Wiggins, 70 years of age, a veteran of Company I of the Twenty-second New Hampshire Cavalry, severed the arteries in his wrists' and bled to death. He was a patient in the tuberculosis ward.
Francis M. Anderson, 69 years of age, a member of Company D, Twenty-second lowa Infantry, took morphine and expired. He was afflicted with asthma.
(San Francisco Call, Vol. 104, No. 164, November 11, 1908)
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