December 27, 1910 – Henry D. Anderson, of Belleville, switchman, was killed in the St. Louis and O’Fallon Coal Company’s No. 1 mine, French Village, St. Clair county. Deceased was struck by empty cars being pushed in by a motor at the mouth of the 12th east entry on the north side of the shaft. He supposed the trip was going north and he stood in the twelfth east and thought he was out of the way.
Hiram “Henry” Deval Anderson is my 4x great grandfather on my father’s paternal line. He was born January 12, 1846 to William N. Anderson and Eleanor “Ellen” Claisen Bronaugh. In the early days of his parent’s marriage, they lived on the plantation of Taliaferro Bronaugh, Eleanor’s father, in Christian County, Kentucky until moving to Missouri around 1840-3, were Henry was born. While living in Kentucky, William and Eleanor had one slave in 1840.
Perhaps due to their family’s roots as slave owners in Kentucky, at least three of the Anderson sons (James Garland Anderson, William Toliver Anderson, and Hiram Anderson) joined the Confederacy in the Civil War. Of those three, only Hiram would survive. William and Hiram both served in the 10th Missouri Infantry. William Tolliver was wounded in the battle at Helena Arkansas on July 4, 1863 he died a few days later. Hiram was captured during the battle and sent to the Alton Prison for almost two years, deaths at the prison were more common than at other Union prisons, and prisoners faced harsh conditions and regular outbreaks of diseases such as smallpox and rubella. 1,534 Confederate soldiers are known to have died at the prison. After being released (or escaping, accounts vary) he went to O’Fallon, St. Clair, Illinois. He began working in the mines there.
Mary Ann Kinsey Anderson and Hiram D. Anderson, probably around 1900-1910.
On May 23, 1869 in St. Clair County, he married Mary Ann Porter Kinsey, who was born in Staffordshire, England. The couple had the following children: John Franklin Anderson, Mary Ann Anderson, Katie Marion Anderson, Emily Anderson Pfiffner, Henry Lewis Anderson, Charles Lewis Anderson, James Arthur Anderson, George Cleveland Anderson, and Joseph Troutt Anderson.
On December 27, 1910 the mines Hiram worked in for so many year claimed his life. He was struck by a motor and killed instantly.
His mother, Lucinda died at about 40 in on August 28, 1875 in O’Fallon, St. Clair, Illinois. Charles would have been nine when he lost his mother. In 1880, fourteen year old Charles was living in St. Clair, Illinois with his 53 year old father, 23 year old brother Alex, 20 year old sister Kate, 16 year old brother Louis, his uncle Joseph Pfeiffner, and cousin Edward Miller.
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