KENTUCKY: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed., 
1887, Green Co.

WALTER W. ANDERSON was born December 3, 1839, and is the elder of one
son and one daughter born to Alfred Anderson and Nancy Hert, natives
respectively of Goochland and Bedford Counties, Va.  Alfred Anderson was
born October 19, 1795, and came to Green County, Ky., with his parents
in 1819. January 2 of the same year his father purchased 1,000 acres 
where Walter W. now resides, on Casey Fork, in Green County.  Alfred 
served as magistrate for several terms; also served in both branches of 
the Legislature as a Democrat, and when the war broke out was the owner 
of about one hundred negroes, and he also freighted by flatboat to New
Orleans.  He was the son of Garland Anderson, who married a Miss
Winston, of whom Alfred Anderson was the only child, and who died 
December 3, 1873.  Garland married for his second wife a Miss Minor, to 
whom four children were born; the third wife was Sally Trabue.  He was 
born August 6, 1769.  He became a member of the Virginia Legislature, 
and when he came to Kentucky he purchased 1,000 acres of the finest 
lands in the country, of Major Blain, for $16,000.  Walter W. Anderson 
received a good English education at Columbia, grew to manhood on the 
farm, and in the fall of 1861 enlisted in Company F, Fourth Kentucky 
Confederate Infantry, but after a service of a few months was 
discharged.  August 24, 1862, he was united in marriage to Sallie A., a 
daughter of Thomas and Sallie (Hatcher) Miller, natives of Kentucky.  
Mr. Miller was a farmer and his parents were early pioneers of Green 
County.  By this union seven children were born: Ann Mary, Eliza C. 
(deceased at eighteen), Sallie E., now Parrott, William Lee (deceased), 
Alfred M. (deceased), Thomas J. (deceased) and Guy W.  His wife died 
March 15, 1879, a devoted member of the Baptist Church; she was of
German descent.  Mr. Anderson married for his second wife Mary Ruth,
daughter of John and Emily (Owens) Wilson.  Mr. Wilson was an extensive
and substantial farmer; was born in Green County and died in February, 
1884, aged sixty three.  He was a son of Hugh Wilson and Mary Thomas, 
who came from Ireland and settled in Virginia, and after marriage in 
Kentucky.  Mr. Anderson had born to him by this last marriage three 
children: Emma O., Clyde G. and Andrew J.  His wife is a member of the 
Christian Church.  He located in August, 1874, where he now resides, on 
the old homestead of 500 acres, in a high state of cultivation, with 
fine brick cottage and good out-buildings.  He is also the possessor of 
three other farms, containing in all 650 acres, besides other interests.
Mr. Anderson was formerly a member of the Grange.  In politics he is a 
Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for J.C. Breckinridge.

Anderson Hert Winston Minor Trabue Blain Hatcher Miller Parrott Owens
Wilson Thomas Breckinridge
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Goochland-VA Bedford-VA Ireland

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