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Mr*. Anderson
Nears Century Mark
Mrs. Louemma Miller Anderson, of Amissville, is getting all set to tackle the second hundred years, beginning next Friday, December 30. She was .born the year of the Gold Rush—1849— and that means she had lived through the speediest history this nation has seen. .
Mrs. Anderson's late husband, Peyton Anderson was the first s man to shed blood for the Con. federacy, having been wounded while on picket duty near Fairfax Court House on April 27, 1861- He was left to die, while his comrade, a Mr. Lillard, was taken prisoner. Mr. Anderson, however, was able to crawl to a house close by and he was given first aid and nursed until he could • be carried to Culpeper where he was cared for in the home of Mrs. M*eoyr~THoth«r* of the forme*-, druggist, Dr. R. Blish Macoy.
Mr.s and Mrs. Andersen had five children. Sue Andersori died December 17, 1917. Fannie Tay- - lor Anderson died Jaunary 11, 1947. Aubrey Anderson lives in Maxwell, California..Joseph. M. • Anderson lives’ in Arlington., and the youngest is Mrs. A. C. Latham, of Amissville. There are ten living grandchildren -and 15 great-grandchildren. Robert Lee Miller, of Rappahannock, is her brother and the only other surviving member of her immediate family. Mrs. W. F. Moffett of Washington is a niece. For a number of years Mrs. Anderson divided her time with her children, going to the city to apand She winters and coming back to Amissville for the summer, but as the years crept dp on her, she became too feeble and she has spent the last few years altogether at Amissville_J She is a member of Amissville Baptist church, having brought her letter from Mt. Salem where she bad been a member (from girlhood, and all hex life has been k# regular attendant of her ichurch whenever it was possible torher to get there. . ; +,. ' Her daughter speaks -t/iue of her: “No one can boast of having a more loving, self-sacrificing, ■ Christian mother and grandmother than she has been."
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