ALLEN COUNTY OHIO OBIT: ANDERSON, William 1898 
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  Taken from Allen County Republican
                Oct 1898

William ANDERSON, the oldest resident of Lima, and 
one of the oldest settlers of this county, died at 
his home at 250 S. Pierce St., Friday morning. at 9:15.
The deceased was born March 24,1808, spending his 
early years in Fayette County, Pa. At the age of 
nineteen he married Miss Jennie BENTLY, and three 
years later moved to Trumbull County, Ohio. He remained 
there eight years and came to Allen County in the winter 
of 1837, and purchased land west of this city, along the 
Ottawa river, where he lived until the fall of 1874, and 
then removed to this city. His wife died Nov. 9,1874. The 
deceased was the father of one son and five daughters. The 
son died in the army service in Tenn. during the Civil War. 
One daughter died in Grand Rapids, Mich., and one daughter 
died in this city; the three surviving  members of the family 
are Mrs. Henry CLOSE and Mrs. O. FOSTER, of Kansas, and Mrs. 
Jane KRIDLER of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Funeral services were held Sunday 

Submitted by
Linda Dietz
Apr. 8, 2000