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Submitted: 6/25/10 • Approved: 6/26/10 • Last Updated: 8/11/12 • R336429-G0-S3
SURGEON CSA
18 Ark Inf
Civil War Confederate
October 1834-December 16, 1880
Age 46 years 1 month 28 days
This article appeared in the Lincoln Ledger on 1-12-1994
Remembering Dr. Anderson...
Dr. Edmund Cheersmund Goodmund Anderson was numbered among the leading Physicians of Lincoln County.
His birth took place in October of 1834 in the state of Virginia. He was educated at Brownsville, Tennessee and also at Richmond, Virginia where he received his Medical Degree, graduating in 1855.
Previous to this date he had moved to White County, Arkansas, living at Searcy for several years. Later Dr. Anderson moved to Lincoln County locating on Bayou Bartholomew. In 1871 he came to Star City where he had a large and lucrative practice and where he remained until his death in December of 1880.
Doctor Anderson belonged to the Masonic Lodge, The Knights of Hope, and politizally was a member of the Democratic Party. In connection with his popularity and success he was largely interested in agricultural matters as a farmer.
Few men have been, at any time or in any County, more generally liked and respected as was Dr. Anderson by the citizens of Lincoln County. A devoted member of the Baptist Church, a thoroughly charitable and kindly man, and with all most intellectual, the Doctor easily won friends. He enlisted in the Confederate Army in March 1862, and was wounded in Corinth, Mississippi the same year. He was taken prisoner while there and was tenderly cared for by the Rutledge family. Upon returning home he joined Colonel Thompson's Regiment, of which he was made a Surgeon, serving until the close of the war.
Dr. Anderson married Maria L. Jones of Alabama, the daughter of Henry P. Jones. The ceremony was performed in May of 1861, and of this union five children were born, of whom only two survived. Their son, E.C.G. Anderson was born in March of 1870 and their daughter, Sadie Anderson Quinn, born in 1873, both at Tyro, Arkansas.
The family belonged to the Baptist Church. Words are after all entirely inadequate to render full justice to the memory of such men as Doctor Anderson, one of whom all men honor. Doctor Anderson is the grandfather of Mrs. Iris Anderson Curry, who is a resident of Lincoln County.
Contributed on 6/25/10 by tootied
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