History of Nemaha County, Kansas . rty-fiveyears, and is one of the real old timers of the State. His first homein Nemaha county was a one-room frame house, and the only shelter hehad for his live stock was a straw barn. Mr. Anderson has witnessed agreat State in the making, and has assisted materially in the developmentof one of the richest and best counties of the commonwealth; he has reareda fine family of children, who have taken their places in the world andhave families of their own. His four score and two years still sit lightlyon his shoulders, and this grand old patriarch is yef a man
History of Nemaha County, Kansas . rty-fiveyears, and is one of the real old timers of the State. His first homein Nemaha county was a one-room frame house, and the only shelter hehad for his live stock was a straw barn. Mr. Anderson has witnessed agreat State in the making, and has assisted materially in the developmentof one of the richest and best counties of the commonwealth; he has reareda fine family of children, who have taken their places in the world andhave families of their own. His four score and two years still sit lightlyon his shoulders, and this grand old patriarch is yef a man among men,despite his great age. Thomas S. Anderson, of Oilman township, was born in Guernseycounty, Ohio, July 3, 1834, and is a son of George S. and Sarah (Smith)Anderson, the former of whom was born in Ohio, November 11, S. Anderson was a farmer during his whole life. He marriedSarah Smith in 1833, and reared a family of twelve children, as follows:Thomas S., subject of this review; William W., a farmer of Guthrie,. HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY 425 Iowa; Humphrey, deceased; Mrs. Martha E. Jones, deceased; J. Henderson, deceased; George W., retired farrner, Seneca,Kans.; Mrs. Hannah Bethel, deceased; Mrs. Marguerite Carpenter,Carwi, Kans.; Mrs. Maude Dewhurst, California; John, deceased; Or-lando, farming in Ohio; Mrs. Etta Bethel, deceased. Mrs. Sarah SmithAnderson, mother of the foregoing children, was born in England in 1816and died in 1869 in Ohio. She came to America with her parents in1818. Her father was a stone mason and was employed in the buildingof the White House at Washington, D. C. Twelve years after comingto this country (1830) he removed to Ohio and engaged in had a farm of 160 acres and was a pioneer in the fruit industry,maintaining a dry house for the purpose of preserving his surplus cropsof peaches and apples. Thomas S. Anderson received a district school education, pursuedan academic course for one year, studied in a select s
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