Benjamin F Anderson
Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 May 1913, page 3
FUNERAL OF BEN ANDERSON
The funeral of Benjamin F Anderson took place yesterday, the
remains being placed in the vault at Evergreen Cemetery. Later the body will be
shipped to Pittsburg. Mrs. William Strutt, who was bequeathed property to
the value of $7000 by the decedent, attended the funeral. In making the
arrangements for his funeral with Undertaker Charles A Smith & Son, Anderson
expressed a desire that his body lie in state at the mortuary chapel in a couch
lined with silk and also expressed the hope that every old soldier in Campbell
County would attend the obsequies.
Comrades attended the funeral to the number of about 30 and veterans officiated as pallbearers. Among the mourners were Mr. and Mrs. William Strutt, the latter the beneficiary of his will, because she fed him when he was hungry some time after the war.
Rev G A Wahl, pastor of the United Brethren Church officiated. Anderson, in his youth, was one of the "Forty-niners" who crossed the continent in search of gold. He came to Newport about 10 years ago and invested in real estate. He also had property in Pittsburg.