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Robert Anderson - Madison Parish, Louisiana

Reprint from Hannibal, Missouri Courier June 14, 1849

We exreact the folowing obituary from a paper published in Richmond, Madison Parish, Louisiana 
May 4, 1849.

DIED - In this village yesterday morning (May 3rd) of apoplexy, ROBERT ANDERSON, Esq'r., in the 70th 
year of his age. He was born in Cumberland County, Virginia, Dec'r 2nd, 1779.

The death of one so generally and justly esteemed as that of this good man, is an event which merits 
more that this brief notice. We confess the inability nof our pen to do justice to the virtues of the 
deceased. We can offer no balm to the crushed and bleeding heart of his son, who watched the expiring 
lamp of life go out and vainly prayed that it might last a little longer; we will not attempt to send
words of sympathy with the announcement of death to his friends and relations, for time alone can soothe 
their sorrow. When the intensity of their grief shall have passed, they will find consolation in the 
remembrance of his many virtues, his spotless life; his unblemished reputation. This is their inheritance 
and it will descend to their children's children. They will cherish it as a rich legacy, more precious 
than gold, more enduring than worldly honors. Venerated alike for his years and his virtues, he has left 
to society a shining example for the imitation of the young and for the old; and the closing scene was 
but a proof of the excellency of a long and well spent life.

Mr. Anderson was the father of Samuel Anderson, Esq'r., Sheriff of this parish and Dr. Robert N. Anderson 
of Hannibal, Mo. He came to this parish some time since on business, which detained him until his death.
He was generally known, and it is saying not a little for any man in our community, to say, as we do of 
him, that his name was never mentioned but in terms of veneration by the young and of respect by the aged.
His place will long be vacant among us. His rich stores of information, his wise counsels are sealed to 
us forever; but we find consolation in the knowledge that our loss is his eternal gain.