Roane County, West Virginia BIO: ANDERSON Family This biography was submitted by Sandy Spradling, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 433-434 ANDERSON: Of Reedy. Ezra D. Anderson, veteran of the Civil War was born on Sandy, Jack-son County, West Virginia, 1847, died at Reedy, year 1926; was one of the family Anderson, pioneers of the middle Ohio River valley; he was a son of John and Betsy Ann (Boice) Anderson; enlisted as a soldier in the Union forces and served through the Civil War. At once on return from the war in the year 1865, he united in marriage with Mary Jane Powers-his blue uniform his wedding suit. Mary Jane was a daughter of Elihu Powers, a noted man of his times in Jackson County. These newlyweds made their home on Sandy not far from Sandyville for the first eight years of their wedded lives; purchased a tract of forest land on Staats Run of Middle Reedy and moved themselves and family on it in the year 1873. There brought up their family of seven sons and two daughters whose names given in order of respective births are as follows: William Hezekiah, born 1866; John D., Remus E., Denzil, Charles B., Edward Hayes, Randolph D., Irene Jane and Ida May. The first wife having died, Ezra married Miss Lummie Starcher, of Spencer, West Virginia; of this marriage one child, the daughter, Icy, was born.