A Few Pics of My Anderson Ancestors

Henry J. Coffin (c 1829-1894)

Henry J. Coffin’s Grave (note inaccurate birth year)

Harriet Frances (Merriam) Coffin (1835-1928)

Harriet Frances (Merriam) Coffin’s Grave

Henry J. 'Pard' Coffin, Jr., Alexander & David Anderson

Alexander Anderson (1853-1900)

Alexander Anderson’s Grave

Margaret (Coffin) Anderson’s Grave

David Ewart Anderson’s Grave

A view of the Anderson family plot in Cottonwood Cemetary, Burwell

Alice Louise (Coffin) Anderson (1865-1905)

The children of Alexander and Margaret Josephine (Coffin) Anderson at the time of their parents' death

The back of the above giving names and ages

The same about 15 years later

Colin Campbell Anderson (1894-1957)

The same during WWI

Colin and Marguerite (Olcott) Anderson’s Grave

The Coffin family en route westward

The Coffin family's soddie near Schuyler, Nebraska

'Forks Hall,' the David E. Anderson family home near the juncture of the Calamus and North Loup rivers

A room in 'Forks Hall'

Alice Louise (Coffin) Anderson, seated at a pianoforte carved by Henry J. Coffin

'River View,' the Alexander Anderson family home, subsequently that of the Charles L. Olcotts

‘River View’ today (it has since been moved into Burwell)

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