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   The Goodspeed Publishing Company,
   History of Tennessee, 1887

       Eli Anderson, farmer, was born in Sullivan County February 2,
    1829, the son of William and Elizabeth (Warren) Anderson, the former,
    born in this county in 1802, and his wife in 1807, the daughter of
    Michael Warren. The parents were both Presbyterians, and the mother,
    now eighty years of age, lives with our subject. Eli attended country
    schools, and, excepting a few years in the gold mines of California, he
    has been a farmer, who has acquired by his own ability, three fine
    estates in this county. In 1856 he married Edna, a daughter of Robert
    Hughes. The mother died in 1872 leaving three daughters, and in 1877,
    Lydia, a daughter of Alfred Carr, of Washington County, became his
    wife. They have two sons. Our subject is an esteemed member of the
    Presbyterian Church.


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