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Obituary- Anderson, John

THURS. JAN 4, 1923
J. B. Anderson, Oldest Citizen Is Dead

John Benjamin Anderson, Rossville’s oldest citizen, and probably the oldest person in Shawnee county, passed away last Thursday afternoon after a very brief illness. Mr. Anderson would have been 97 years old next February 3.

Mr. Anderson was a native of New York where he was born Feb. 8, 1820, at Kingsville. He moved west to Wisconsin in 1847 locating about 40 miles west of Milwaukee. A year later he was married to Miss Caroline M. Rickard and this union was blessed by the birth of four sons and one daughter. Mrs. Anderson died in 1876.

In 1869 Mr. Anderson moved to the southern part of Iowa where he resided for 12 years and later moved to a town in the northern part of the state in 1880. In June 1880 he was married to Margaret Carpenter, and to this union one son, Herbert, was born.

The family moved to Kansas in the year 1893 locating about four miles northwest of Rossville on the farm where he resided when he passed away.
On account of his advanced age and poor health he had been confined to his home for about two years.

He is survived by his wife, three sons— Byron and Edmond of California; Charles of Maple Hill; one daughter, Mrs. Austin Sebring of Rossville.
The funeral service was held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Rossville Methodist church, conducted by the Rev. H. P. Basquin and interment made in the Rossville cemetery. Hesperian Lodge, A. F. & A. M. of which Mr. Anderson was a member had charge of the service at the grave.