The Emporia Weekly News, 23 Aug 1867, Fri
DIED
At the residence of Mr. A. A. Hickox, three miles southwest of Emporia, on Sunday, the 18th inst., MR. SAMUEL M. ANDERSON, aged forty-nine years.
--Mr. Anderson came to Kansas from Minnesota in the fall of 1861. In August 1862 he enlisted in Co. C., of the Eleventh Kansas, at its formation, and participated with the company in the battles of Old Fort Wayne, Cane Hill, and Prairie Grove. At the last named battle, he was shot through the body just above the bowels, with a musket ball; the wound being so severe as to lead to the opinion among the hospital surgeons that he would not recover. Sometime in the following March or April, however, he had recovered sufficiently to be removed, and was discharged. He returned to his family at Emporia, where he remained until about two years ago, when he removed to the Cherokee Neutral Lands, and shortly after from thence to Spring River in Missouri. About two weeks since he returned to Emporia, saying it was more like home to him than any place else he had ever found and he intended to stay here the remainder of his life. During the over four years that elapsed from his time of being wounded to the day of his death he had not known a day's exemption from pain and weakness on account of his wound. Had it been possible for him to have led a life of ease after his discharge, his life might have been prolonged several years; but he was a man of energy and industry, and being in straitened circumstances, he worked constantly, and this, no doubt, hastened the fatal hour. His death was directly traceable to his wound. He was buried in the Welsh graveyard south of town, under the direction of the Lyon Post, No. 7 G.A.R. The funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. S. G. Brown, of the Christian Church.
Mr. Anderson was a good citizen, a courageous soldier and exemplary in all the walks of life. He was as universally esteemed as known. He leaves a wife and three or four children. One, the eldest, a young man of perhaps twenty, served an enlistment in the Second Kansas Cavalry, and is now in Missouri, near where his father settled. The remainder are here with their mother.
(Special thanks to Findagrave contributor Becky Doan)
DIED
At the residence of Mr. A. A. Hickox, three miles southwest of Emporia, on Sunday, the 18th inst., MR. SAMUEL M. ANDERSON, aged forty-nine years.
--Mr. Anderson came to Kansas from Minnesota in the fall of 1861. In August 1862 he enlisted in Co. C., of the Eleventh Kansas, at its formation, and participated with the company in the battles of Old Fort Wayne, Cane Hill, and Prairie Grove. At the last named battle, he was shot through the body just above the bowels, with a musket ball; the wound being so severe as to lead to the opinion among the hospital surgeons that he would not recover. Sometime in the following March or April, however, he had recovered sufficiently to be removed, and was discharged. He returned to his family at Emporia, where he remained until about two years ago, when he removed to the Cherokee Neutral Lands, and shortly after from thence to Spring River in Missouri. About two weeks since he returned to Emporia, saying it was more like home to him than any place else he had ever found and he intended to stay here the remainder of his life. During the over four years that elapsed from his time of being wounded to the day of his death he had not known a day's exemption from pain and weakness on account of his wound. Had it been possible for him to have led a life of ease after his discharge, his life might have been prolonged several years; but he was a man of energy and industry, and being in straitened circumstances, he worked constantly, and this, no doubt, hastened the fatal hour. His death was directly traceable to his wound. He was buried in the Welsh graveyard south of town, under the direction of the Lyon Post, No. 7 G.A.R. The funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. S. G. Brown, of the Christian Church.
Mr. Anderson was a good citizen, a courageous soldier and exemplary in all the walks of life. He was as universally esteemed as known. He leaves a wife and three or four children. One, the eldest, a young man of perhaps twenty, served an enlistment in the Second Kansas Cavalry, and is now in Missouri, near where his father settled. The remainder are here with their mother.
(Special thanks to Findagrave contributor Becky Doan)
The Emporia Weekly News, 23 Aug 1867, Fri
DIED
At the residence of Mr. A. A. Hickox, three miles southwest of Emporia, on Sunday, the 18th inst., MR. SAMUEL M. ANDERSON, aged forty-nine years.
--Mr. Anderson came to Kansas from Minnesota in the fall of 1861. In August 1862 he enlisted in Co. C., of the Eleventh Kansas, at its formation, and participated with the company in the battles of Old Fort Wayne, Cane Hill, and Prairie Grove. At the last named battle, he was shot through the body just above the bowels, with a musket ball; the wound being so severe as to lead to the opinion among the hospital surgeons that he would not recover. Sometime in the following March or April, however, he had recovered sufficiently to be removed, and was discharged. He returned to his family at Emporia, where he remained until about two years ago, when he removed to the Cherokee Neutral Lands, and shortly after from thence to Spring River in Missouri. About two weeks since he returned to Emporia, saying it was more like home to him than any place else he had ever found and he intended to stay here the remainder of his life. During the over four years that elapsed from his time of being wounded to the day of his death he had not known a day's exemption from pain and weakness on account of his wound. Had it been possible for him to have led a life of ease after his discharge, his life might have been prolonged several years; but he was a man of energy and industry, and being in straitened circumstances, he worked constantly, and this, no doubt, hastened the fatal hour. His death was directly traceable to his wound. He was buried in the Welsh graveyard south of town, under the direction of the Lyon Post, No. 7 G.A.R. The funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. S. G. Brown, of the Christian Church.
Mr. Anderson was a good citizen, a courageous soldier and exemplary in all the walks of life. He was as universally esteemed as known. He leaves a wife and three or four children. One, the eldest, a young man of perhaps twenty, served an enlistment in the Second Kansas Cavalry, and is now in Missouri, near where his father settled. The remainder are here with their mother.
(Special thanks to Findagrave contributor Becky Doan)
DIED
At the residence of Mr. A. A. Hickox, three miles southwest of Emporia, on Sunday, the 18th inst., MR. SAMUEL M. ANDERSON, aged forty-nine years.
--Mr. Anderson came to Kansas from Minnesota in the fall of 1861. In August 1862 he enlisted in Co. C., of the Eleventh Kansas, at its formation, and participated with the company in the battles of Old Fort Wayne, Cane Hill, and Prairie Grove. At the last named battle, he was shot through the body just above the bowels, with a musket ball; the wound being so severe as to lead to the opinion among the hospital surgeons that he would not recover. Sometime in the following March or April, however, he had recovered sufficiently to be removed, and was discharged. He returned to his family at Emporia, where he remained until about two years ago, when he removed to the Cherokee Neutral Lands, and shortly after from thence to Spring River in Missouri. About two weeks since he returned to Emporia, saying it was more like home to him than any place else he had ever found and he intended to stay here the remainder of his life. During the over four years that elapsed from his time of being wounded to the day of his death he had not known a day's exemption from pain and weakness on account of his wound. Had it been possible for him to have led a life of ease after his discharge, his life might have been prolonged several years; but he was a man of energy and industry, and being in straitened circumstances, he worked constantly, and this, no doubt, hastened the fatal hour. His death was directly traceable to his wound. He was buried in the Welsh graveyard south of town, under the direction of the Lyon Post, No. 7 G.A.R. The funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. S. G. Brown, of the Christian Church.
Mr. Anderson was a good citizen, a courageous soldier and exemplary in all the walks of life. He was as universally esteemed as known. He leaves a wife and three or four children. One, the eldest, a young man of perhaps twenty, served an enlistment in the Second Kansas Cavalry, and is now in Missouri, near where his father settled. The remainder are here with their mother.
(Special thanks to Findagrave contributor Becky Doan)
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