Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Typewritten Letter from L. T. ANDERSON to Dr. HANDLEY,
Greenbrier Historical Society, 1963

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Typewritten Letter from L. T. ANDERSON to Dr. HANDLEY,
of the Greenbrier Historical Society, 1963

16 Sep 63 [handwritten]

Dear Dr. Handley:

     I hope it isn't too presumptuous of me, but I thought
you might have some interest in these documents.  The
Society may have them provided members of my
family will be permitted to examine them.  I acknowledge
that some are badly tattered and torn.

     They include the original of the will of Peter
Anderson, Sr., and a document which explains Rebecca
Anderson's curious renunciation of the will's term.
The children seemed to have gathered at Lewisburg in
1871 in order to draw lots for the property.

     You have already discovered the father of Peter, Sr.
I am descended from Peter Jr., the Peter mentioned among
the children in the will.  Peter Jr. married Mary Piercy
of Muddy Creek Mountain in 1844 (according to records in
the Department of Archives and Histroy), and lived
near Clifftop, Fayette County, at the time of the drawing.
Later he moved to Nicholas County, and is buried in an
Anderson cemetery near the hamlet of Jettsville.  Peter Jr.
was the father of Newman who apparently settled on the
land of Peter Jr. drew (at Teaberry).  Newman Anderson married
Mary Reaser of Greenbrier County and my father was their
oldest son.  He, Wilbur Anderson, was a C&O Railway engineer,
and was killed in a boiler explosion in 1953
as an engineman.  Among Peter Jr.'s sons were Johnson
Anderson, at one time mayor of Richwood, and Franklin
Anderson, a Methodist minister in Greenbrier county.  Another
son, Bill Anderson, died only a few years ago at the age of
90 in Nicholas County.

     Newman, Franklin, and assorted other Andersons are
buried in the family cemetery at Teaberry.  In the same
cemetery is Joseph, one of the sons mentioned prominently in
the will.  His tombstone is marked "Capt. Joseph Anderson,"
and he apparently was in military service, with the
Confederate Army, I suppose.

     I don't like to annoy you with all of this information,
but I recall that you said your material on the Andersons
is in short supply.  I gathered that you may welcome such
information.  In any event, don't let your good breeding
prevent you from simply returning the material if you have
no use for it.

     You possibly would be considerably more interested
in some old documents I saw recently at the St. Albans
home of Marvin Reaser.  Among other things, he has some
ancient newspaper clippings dealing with the doctrinal
positions of two Presbyterian ministers names Sydenstricker,
who are related to Reaser and possibly me.  They seemed
to have carried on a running debate for a long time over
various points of theology.  Both Reaser and I are
related to the Whangers, a prolific Greenbrier family, and
the Whangers seem to have some kinship with the Sydenstrickers.
I would be delighted, of course, to learn of a distant
relationship to Pearl Buck, since I have little else to
boast about.

     May I suggest that you send Society apllication blanks
to my brothers and sisters?

Charles L. [?] Anderson, 5 Edgewood Park Dr., Parkersburg.
Robert G. Anderson, 347 Adena Rd., Chilicothe, Ohio.
Edith Anderson Burke, 797 Eastwood Dr., Huntington.
Leola Anderson Halstead, 1539 Lee St., Charleston.

Sincerely,

L. T. Anderson [signature]