Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 75-77. McCracken Co. LAWRENCE B. ANDERSON Lawrence B. Anderson, formerly a general insurance agent of Mayfield, now of Paducah, is a native of Graves county, Kentucky, born February 1, 1860. Mr. Anderson is a son of Ervine and Eliza (Lockridge) Anderson. His father was the first white child born in Graves county, Kentucky, after the organization of the county. The date of his nativity was January 21, 1820. He was the son of John and Rebecca (Davenport) Anderson. John Anderson, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was born in what is now Albermarle [sic] county, North Carolina, [sic] and there was reared and educated. He then as a young man came to Kentucky, at a time when the Jackson Purchase had not yet been organized into counties. He was then a married man, having married Miss Rebecca Davenport, in North Carolina. He cleared up his farm, and in 1821, just as Graves county was formed, he was elected clerk of the county and circuit courts. At that time the present offices of county clerk and circuit clerk were united. He continued in this office until his death in 1842. He studied law and practiced irregularly; was a man of great natural ability, and stood very high in the esteem of his fellow citizens. He served in the war of 1812, and was a Whig in politics. On coming to Kentucky he first settled in Caldwell county, Kentucky. The following is the copy of a record made in his own writing: "Emigrated from Caldwell county, Kentucky, to the district of country west of the Tennessee river, and settled on Mayfield creek in the woods, two and a half miles north of the present site of the town of Mayfield. We had to make our way through the woods from the Tennessee river and were three days on the route, encamping in the woods at night and threading our way through the thicket by day. We arrived on the 27th of October, 1819, at our place of future residence, and pitched our camp. I built cabins and cleared land, and resided at that place until December, 1824, when the county of Graves having recently been organized, and myself appointed clerk of the county and circuit courts, I moved to the town of Mayfield." Here he ever afterward lived. His son Ervine served as his deputy in the office of clerk of the county and circuit courts, to which office he was afterward several times elected, and was serving therein where the Civil war came on. During the war he began the practice of law. With the change of the Constitution he was again elected county and circuit clerk; was a representative of his county in the legislature in 1871-72, and continued to practice law until his death, July 11, 1876. He was a Cumberland Presbyterian, a Mason and a Democrat. Eliza (Lockridge) Anderson, the mother of our subject, was born in Graves county, Kentucky, May 8, 1829, and was married to Ervine Anderson, October 15, 1844. To the marriage were born nine children, four sons and five daughters, namely: Lawrence B., John, Wiley, Annie, Amelia, Edith, Emily, Albert and Hester. The mother of these children was a daughter of Robert D. Lockridge, born in Lexington, Kentucky, November 5, 1804. He married Elizabeth Buchanan, of Logan county, in 1827. He was a physician and died in Graves county in 1876. He was a son of Robert Lockridge, who was a pioneer of Murray [sic] county, Tennessee, whither he removed from Lexington. In Mayfield, Lawrence B. Anderson was educated. He first taught school and then took up the practice of law, having been admitted to the bar in 1886. In 1890 he was elected county judge of Graves county, and made a good officer in that position, leaving which he took up the insurance business. Subsequently he served as commissioner of insurance for the state, having only recently retired from this position. Mr. Anderson is and always has been a Democrat in politics. Fraternally he is a Knight of Pythias, and he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church. He was married, August 11, 1888, to Miss Daisy D. Bollinger, daughter of J.F. Bollinger, of Mayfield. In every official relation Mr. Anderson has been indefatigable in the discharge of duty, and by reason of his integrity and fidelity, has won the esteem and confidence of the public, and to-day he stands as a representative of the many excellent men to whom the great state of Kentucky sets claim. Anderson Lockridge Davenport Buchanan Bollinger = Graves-KY NC Caldwell-KY Fayette-KY Logan-KY Maury-TN http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/mccracken/anderson.lb.txt