Agriculture College in Iowa
Farmer
32nd degree Mason
He shot himself in the pond in the back of Sideview when he found that he was terminally ill. It has also been claimed that he was having money and wife troubles. (He and Zelda did not get along and he was embarrassed to have married her.) It has further been claimed that this was part of the Anderson family curse.
Samuel English Anderson was known in Montgomery County for his red hair and the temper that went with it. He did once kill a man, but the court found that it was in self-defense.
He was shot by a farm worker whom he had fired the day before for smoking in a tobacco barn. Hamp says this may have been self-defense, because He threatened to kill the workers for smoking in the barn. Hamp also says old-time rumors say they mashed his head with a fence post. Beth heard he was cut to death with machetes in the field, but Hamp says they wouldn't be cutting tobacco in November, only stripping it in the barn.
Corwin fought with his father and then left home. His last letter was from Australia.
Killed when the car he was driving hit a pig in the road. Despite the many suicides in the family, this is the only known sowicide.
Yale 1869 (did not graduate)
Breeder of short horn cattle
He was named after an Ohio senator. The name Corwin is from the Latin corvinus which means raven and is akin to corbin/corbet. In old French it was cord and in Middle English Corse which meant raven or cow.
Attended Annapolis for one year, possibly to avoid service in the Civil War.
He farmed the old Mitchell farm and became known as a leading short horn breeder. He suffered from asthma and wanted to move to Colorado in 1876 to avoid the Kentucky weather, but he didn't.
Writer (pseudonymously) for Louisville Herald
Ann or Annie was from Louisville. She wrote under an assumed name for the Louisville Herald.
She was engaged to General Hood of the Confederacy, but she was seeing Mr. Anderson on the side. A servant was posted to keep Mr. Anderson away. However the girl fell asleep, and Cora eloped with Mr. Anderson.
Died of flux. Rumored to have been killed by his brother.