George Anderson
Margaret Manson was born in Dawn County, Scotland, May 21, 1841. At the age of
seven, she came with her mother, three brothers, and one sister to America and
settled in the state of Wisconsin.
George T. Anderson was born in a log cabin on the banks of Fourth Lake, Madison,
Wisconson, January 2, 1840. When he was about two years of age, the family moved to
a farm of 500 acres, twelve miles from Madison, on the old state road to Milwaukee.
Here, after bing stolen by a band of roving Indians and recaptured, he grew to
manhood. Faithful to a boyhood attachment, George and Margaret were married November
21, 1861. They had five children, of which only Charles H. Anderson and Lulu Skinner,
(Mrs. H.W. Skinner) survived their parents. Charles lived for many years in Denver
and Colorado Springs, and Lulu lived in Medicine Lodge until her death in 1961.
In 1863 George enlisted in the 16th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry for the duration
of the Civil War and was in Sherman's famous March to the Sea. At the muster-out in
1865, he returned to the farm where he and his family remained until 8173. They
emigrated to Kansas, locating in Nortonville, where they resided for 28 years.
In 1902 they came to Barber County withy Mr. and Mrs. Skinner, settling in Lake
City until July, 1908, when they moved to Medicine Lodge on account of Margaret's
health. She died on January 23, 1909. George lived until July 13, 1920. At his
funeral he was surrounded by an honor guard of fellow members of the G.A.R. They
are both buried in the Skinner plot at the cemetery at Medicine Lodge.
Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 85