Clare County MI Archives Obituaries.....Anderson, William April 9, 1895
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Clare Sentinel and Democrat-Press, Friday, April 12, 1895
WILLIAM ANDERSON
“No more the bugle calls the weary one.”

Every one who attended the Decoration day ceremonies and unveiling of the 
soldiers’ monument at Clare last May must remember the impressive exercises at 
the opera house, especially the part when old “Uncle Billy” Anderson came 
forward, dressed as he was when he came out of Libbey prison, barefooted and 
in rags, carrying in his hands his last slender rations.  It was a sight to 
bring tears to every eye.  Now “Uncle Billy” is dead.  He died Tuesday, April 
9, at his home in Sheridan township, just south of the Eagle school house, and 
was buried yesterday at Cherry Grove, eighteen of Hancock post being in line 
at the grave to pay the last sad honors to a brave soldier.

Wm. Anderson was born in Wayne county, O., 71 years ago.  He enlisted Dec., 
1863, in Co. C 2d Ind. Cavalry, and served to the close of the war except for 
the nine months of terrible suffering at Salisbury and afterward at Libbey 
prisons.  He came to Clare in 1871 or ’72, among the early settlers.  July 10, 
1889, he joined Hancock post, and has never failed to be on duty with the post 
when able to do so.  He leaves a wife and five children.



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