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1880 Union, Jackson, West Virginia Page 395C
Joseph H. ANDERSON Self M M W 52 VA
Occ: Farmer Fa: OH Mo: VA
Mary A. ANDERSON Wife F M W 44 PA
Occ: Keeping House Fa: PA Mo: VA
1900 Union Dist, Jackson, WV # 165
Joseph H, 4/1828, 36y WV OH WV
Mary, 1/1832, 36y, 0-0 PA PA VA
Headstone gives his DOB as 1826
Is this him???:
From the Columbus Citizen, dated Jan. 26, 1923:
MIDDLEPORT -- Captain Joe A. Anderson, 95, old Ohio River
steamboat commander, is dead at Mason City. He went on the
river at 17 and in the Civil War ran a transport with supplies for
General Grant in the siege of Vicksburg.
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West Virginia Pioneers
1832 - 1904 (~ 71 years)