Grayson County KyArchives Biographies.....Anderson, Ethal  March 18 1838 - unknown
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Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, Volume 1,3rd edition, 1886.

EATHAL ANDERSON is a native of Grayson County, and a son of Eathal and Agnes
(Nash) Anderson, of Grayson and Pulaski Counties, respectively. Eathal Anderson,
Sr., was the son of William Anderson, of whom mention has already been made. He
resided in Grayson County the greater part of his life, following the vocation
of farming, and was one of the substantial citizens of his neighborhood. In 1849
he moved to Arkansas, settling near Helena, where he lived a short time,
afterward moving to Prairie County, that State, where his death occurred in
1857. His widow, Agnes (Nash) Anderson died August, 1869, at the age of
sixty-one years. The following children were born to Eathal and Agnes Anderson,
namely: William, Valentine, Arthur R., Hannah, Harriet, Eathal (subject),
Phoebe, Charles C., Elizabeth, Rezie, and Agnes H. Eathal Anderson (subject) was
born March 18, 1838, and has been a resident of Grayson County all of his life.
He was reared on a farm and attended the schools of the country during winter
seasons, and at the early age of sixteen years, commenced working for himself in
the blacksmithing business, learning the trade in Edmonson County. Later he
worked on a farm, living with the family of his uncle, Rezin Anderson, for a
period of years, at the end of which time he traveled for about three years,
making several trips down the Mississippi River as flat-boatman in the meantime.
In 1862 he returned to Grayson County and purchased a farm about one and a half
miles from his present home, on which he resided for a period of four years. At
the end of that time he disposed of the farm and purchased his present home
place, a quarter of a mile south of  Caneyville Village, where he has since
lived. He has made farming a speciality; has a well improved place, and is one
of the successful men of Caneyville Precinct. He was united in marriage, April
10, 1862,m in Grayson County, to Miss Sarah J., daughter of William C. And Mary
Jane (Denton) Simpson, of Barren County, Ky. The following children have been
born to this union: Dora, Lydia A., Queen, Charles R., Agnes H., Louise E.,
Pattie E. And William E. Mr. Anderson has never been an office seeker, but takes
some interest in political affairs, voting with the Republican party. He is an
active member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, with which he has been
identified for a period of twenty-three years. His wife is a member of the same
church.


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