This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Anderson Cantrell Sawford Mosby Driskell Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FMB.2ACE/2380 Message Board Post: The following was taken from a photocopied newspaper obit located in Anderson Family History compiled by Betty Lou Anderson Cantrell in 1968 and then “edited, updated, & expanded” by Joyce Marie Anderson Sawford and reprinted in 1995: Pioneer Resident Dead Isaac Anderson Passed Away Friday of the Grip Isaac Anderson, a pioneer resident of Pettis County, 86 years of age, died at his home, ten miles southeast of Sedalia, Friday morning at 1 o’clock of the grip. Mr. Anderson was born in Halifax County, Virginia, in 1822, but came to Missouri when a young man and settled on the farm where he died. A daughter, Mrs. Lucinda Mosby, and two sons, R. P. Anderson and P. R. Anderson, together with several grandchildren and great grandchildren, survive Mr. Anderson. The deceased had been a life ling member of the Baptist church and the funeral will be held from the Flat Creek Baptist church at 11 o’clock this morning. Rev. R. F. Driskell will conduct the service. End Also, handwritten around the obit are multiple comments including by “passed away Friday” is written “Died Jan.31, 1908 Fri” and by “the Grip” is written “influenza” and at the bottom, “from Sedalia, MO newspaper, Page 19.”