This page of the photo album includes two couples who are members of the fifth Anderson Generation: William Anderson and his second wife, Lydia Horney Anderson; and Williams younger brother, Harmon Anderson and Margaret Horney Anderson. Margaret Horney Anderson is a cousin of Lydia Horney.

William Anderson and Lydia Horney

William Anderson, abt 1890

Lydia Horney Anderson, abt 1885

These two portraits were originally published in The Anderson Story in 1968. The portraits are very probably from about 1885, Lydia died in 1891 and William in 1900. William is the oldest of James Anderson and Priscilla Coffin Anderson’s eight children.

William and Lydia lived in Jefferson Township, Greene County, Iowa. They came to this location in 1856 with the Betebenner and Snodgrass Families. William’s brothers Preston, Harmon and Abijah Coffin Anderson joined him over the next couple of decades.

Children of William Anderson, November 1900

William Anderson Children, 2 November 1900
Rhoda Roselle, Maude Davis, Oran Anderson, Ella Anderson, Fred A. Anderson, Allie Young
Addie Shetterly, Joe Anderson, Sarah Snodgrass, Drury Anderson, Viola Wistenberg
Dan Anderson, Priscilla Cochran

Maude Anderson Davis, second from left in the back row, is one of the principals in the creation of The Anderson Story. Others in this portrait undoubtedly contributed to that record as well.

In 1930 Sarah Anderson Snodgrass’s son, Charles Snodgrass wrote up the interesting story of the Anderson, Betebenner and Snodgrass families’ wagon trip from Ohio to Iowa.

Harmon Anderson and Margaret Horney

Harmon Anderson

Margaret Horney

Harmon Anderson is William’s younger brother, the sixth child and fifth son of James Anderson and Priscilla Coffin. Harmon married Margaret Horney in 1851, Margaret was 17 and Harmon 27. Harmon was working on the Horney farm in 1850 along with his next younger brother, Abijah Coffin and a cousin of Margaret.

Harmon and Margaret moved from Ohio to Scranton, Greene County Ohio about 1867, after Harmon was mustered out of the Union Army at the end of the Civil War. Harmon owned and operated a hardware store in Scranton.

These two portraits were in the possession of Harmon’s grand-daughter, Mary Holmes Anderson McKinney. They were scanned from the collection held by Mary’s oldest daughter, Margaret McKinney Brown

Harmon Anderson and Margaret Horney

Harmon Anderson

Margaret Horney, abt 1885

These two images were taken from “The Anderson Story.” Harmon’s is a copy of the original portrait above, the photo for Margaret was used as a substitute for the portrait above in the original publication.

The photo of Margaret is probably from the late 1880s.