Obit for ANDERSEN, Mrs. N. B. (b.1861 d.1936), Redwood Co., MN

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April 16, 1936 (County Sun)  Number 27



After Traffic Accident



74-Year-Old Woman Hit By Automoblie



Wife of Redwood Falls photographer had lived here since marriage in 1889 



Mrs. N. B. Andersen died Tuesday evening at 7:00 o'clock as a result of 

injuries suffered about 7:50 p.m. Monday, when she was struck by an 

automobile driven by Bernard Worsech on the corner of Mill and Third streets.  



The 74-year-old Pioneer Redwood Falls resident, who with Mr. Andersen 

operated a photograph studio on Third Street about 200 ft. from the scene 

of the accident, was returning from a visit to the William Phinney home 

were she had gone to see Mrs. Wm. Tordsen, who was not at home. Worsech, 

who is a friend of the Andersons, was driving from the south did not see 

Mrs. Andersen, who was walking diagonally across the street, because of 

the dusk and her dark coat.  Mrs. Andersen was thrown a few feet by the 

impact.  Dr. J. Gordon Cole arrived on the scene at once and have her 

taken to hospital.  



 Unconscious until her death, Mrs. Andersen had sustained fractures of 

both legs below the knees, a fractured right elbow, a mild cerebral 

concussion, and multiple bruises.  



Mrs. Andersen was born Sarah Elizabeth Burch, January 30th, 1861, near 

Princeton in Bureau County, Illinois.  Her father, a Civil War soldier, 

was killed in the Battle of Missionary Ridge.  Her mother married again.  

The half brothers and sisters that Sarah Burch acquired through her 

mother's remarriage have all died urban lost track of in the course of 

the succeeding years. Her own brother, who became a railroad man, was 

last heard from about 40 years ago, in Missouri.  It is thought that 

he is now dead.  



Miss Burch came to Minnesota to visit an uncle in Renville County.  

Hearing of a vacancy at the Commercial House, Redwood Falls' old hotel 

on the side of the present Ramsey, she hired out as a cook " there, 

early in 1889.  On the seventh of July, a hot, dry, windy day, she went 

to  Renville to attend her aunt's funeral, returning to Redwood Falls 

to find the hotel in ashes.  With it had burned the little photographic 

shop next door to the west, owned by N. B. Andersen.



 While Mr. Andersen was setting up a new establishment of the site he 

now occupies, Miss Burch worked for two months for the hotel owners, 

who lived where the Montgomery Ward store now stands.  By November 1, 

1889 Miss Burch and Mr. Andersen married.  Working together in the 

photograph shop, they had lived here ever since, save for 

(continued and page 6) 

Mrs. Anderson Lewis's life after a traffic accident 

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 five years which they spent in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Mr. Anderson 

having sold his business here.  In 1917 they bought the shop back and 

returned here to stay.  



There are many who will testify that Mrs. Anderson was their friend in 

need, quietly helping them when they were in trouble, or when a 

particularly craved of friends kindly (END of clipping)

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