U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Anderson, Lorenzo Dow (1841-1924) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Page 387 LORENZO DOW ANDERSON, born January 25, 1841, near Walkersville, Lewis County, where he has always lived. He was a soldier in the Third West Virginia Cavalry, Company I, George A. Sexton, Captain- Soon after the war he married Rebecca Wilson, daughter of Samuel Wilson of Frenchton, Upshur County, and to this union were born five children, Luther Colfax, graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan and the West Virginia University, now a lawyer of Welch, W. Va., Alonzo Dow, student of the West Virginia Conference Seminary, at the time of his death in 1894, Charles Frederick, graduate of the West Virginia Conference Seminary, Ohio Wesleyan and Boston Theological Seminary, now pastor of the M. E. Church at Beckley, W. Va., Lucetta and Lillian, two daughters are at home with their father on the old farm near Walkerville, W. Va. All the family are members of the M. E. Church. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Lewis County, WV #8643 FULL-NAME: Lorenzo D. Anderson BIRTH-DATE: January 25, 1841 BIRTH-PLACE: Lewis Co., W.Va. DEATH-DATE: July 22, 1924 at age 83y-5m-27d DEATH-PLACE: Crawford, Lewis County, WV OCCUPATION: Farmer FATHER: James Anderson (born in W.Va.) MOTHER: Sarah Siron (born in Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Senility / Congested Lung INFORMANT: Fred Anderson (of Wheeling, W.Va.) BURIAL: Hedding Cemetery ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Lewis County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/lewis/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------