FORMER BLAIR WOMAN PASSES

Mrs. Samuel F. Anderson of Powell, Wyoming, passed away May 28th at the Deaconess Hospital in Billings, Montana at the age of 76 years, 8 months and 4 days.

Deceased was born at Darlington, a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, and when a small child moved with her parents to Lucknow, Ontario near Lake Huron. When sixteen years of age, she came to DeSoto, this county, as company for the young wife of Niel McMillan, who was lonesome and homesick in the new country.

Two years later, Nov. 19, 1873, she was married to Samuel Fields Anderson, and to them nine children were born, four of whom passed away in infancy. Those remaining are Mrs. Perry J. Clark, Mrs. J. C. Reynolds, Robert, Wallace and Joseph, all of Powell, Wyoming.

Coming to Nebraska when the state was in the formative stage, Mrs. Anderson knew the hardships and the privations of those early times, but their home on the Missouri river bottoms north of Blair was always known as one of hospitality, and the stranger was made welcome to the best in the family larder, and a helping hand was always extended to the needy.

Two years after the death of her husband, which occurred in 1914, Mr. Anderson moved to Powell, Wyoming where she took a homestead in the new irrigated project just opening up. Here she made her home, a pioneer again in a new land. After proving up on her homestead, she moved into Powell where she lived for three and one half years, but her health failing her, she disposed of her town property and went to live with her youngest daughter, Mrs. J. C. Reynolds, where she continued her abode until the final illness when she was taken to the hospital where she passed away.

The body, accompanied by Wallace and Mrs. Clark, was brought to Blair where on Monday afternoon, after a service at the M. E. church, presided over by their old friend, Rev. John Poucher, the body was laid to rest beside the husband in the Blair cemetery.

In her life, Mrs. Anderson was a real mother and wife, and her kindly spirit was felt by the entire neighborhood in which she lived for so many years, and in token of the great esteem in which she was held, the countryside turned out to attend the last sad rites. No greater respect could be shown than that of these old neighbors who, with bowed heads and sorrowful faces, viewed for the last time the features of their departed, and in every way possible they extended their sympathy to the mourning relatives.

Besides the children already mentioned, two sisters and ten grandchildren will feel the loss.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Washington Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file at the Blair Public Library.~~~

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