THE VITAL STATISTIC UNION BETWEEN SHERWOOD BERTON ANDERSON AND HIS 1ST WIFE OF CORNELIA PLATT LANE AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN ROBERT LANE, JOHN SHERWOOD, AND MARION "MIMI:" ANDERSON SPEAR

THE VITAL STATISTIC UNION BETWEEN SHERWOOD BERTON ANDERSON AND HIS 1ST WIFE OF CORNELIA PLATT LANE AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN ROBERT LANE, JOHN SHERWOOD, AND MARION "MIMI": ANDERSON SPEAR

[1876-1941]

Name: Sherwood Berton Anderson

      Alias:  Jobby Anderson ert, Buck Fever, Zip Coon

      Special Note: Birth Record Lawrence

      Born: September 13, 1876 Camden, Preble ,Ohio, USA

      Died:  March 8, 1941 Colón Panama

    Spouse: Cornelia Platt Lane 1^st

                      Tennessee Claflin Mitchell 2^nd

                        Elizabeth Norma Prall 3^rd

                        Eleanor Gladys Copenhaver 4th

      Parents: Irwin McLain Anderson

                       Emma Jane Anderson

       Occupation: Advertiser copyeditor/ Businessman / Author

                              Best Sellers Dark Laughter & Winesburg Ohio

       Cause of Death: peritonitis Intestinal Blockage

       Contribution: Swallowed tooth pick while eating olive

       United States Military:  Ohio Army National Guard

                                 Rank:  Corporal

       Date of Enlistment:  April 25, 1898

       Date of Mustard out:  May 24, 1899

       Disable American Veteran: Yes

       Served: Spanish American War

       Time of Death: 5:49 P.M. Panama Time

       Date of Burial: March 26, 1941

       Informant:  Eleanor Gladys Copenhaver Anderson 4^th wife

       Cremation: Yes

       Informant: Mrs. Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson

       Religion: Agnostic

       Find A Grave Memorial# 29

                Find A Grave Memorial# 109141197

       Interment: Round Hill Cemetery. Marion Smyth County Virginia

All Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003 results for Sherwood Anderson

Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963)

Chicago, Illinois

27 Mar 1941

Obituary

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Sherwood Anderson

 Marion, Va., March 26, [AP]. Sherwood Anderson, who died at Colon, Panama, March 8, while in route to Chile, was buried today in a grave overlooking the southwest Virginia town where he had edited two weekly newspapers and made his home for 15 years

Newspaper Title	Location	Date of Publication	Event
Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963)	Chicago, Illinois	27 Mar 1941	Obituary

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Special Note:  Sherwood Anderson he was recorded as Lawrence Anderson  September 13, 1876 Camden, Preble ,Ohio, USA

Cornelia Platt Lane 

[1877-1867]

Name: Cornelia Platt Lane

Born: May 16, 1877; Toledo, Lucas ,Ohio, USA

Died:  April 29, 1967 Greenboro Nursing Home , Greensboro, Gilemore, North Carolina, USA

Spouse: Sherwood Berton Anderson

Parents: Robert Herber. Lane

                 Katherine “Kate” Pepple

Occupation: Public School Teacher—Michigan City, La Porta, Indiana, USA

                       Private School Teacher—Marion, Smyth, Virginia, USA

                       Taught English, French & Latin

Political: Socialist 

Hobby: Correcting English with her favorite Color the red pen

Cause of Death: Arteriosclerosis Heart Disease 

Date of Interment: May 1, 1967 

Social Security #: 230-42-3234 A

Age at Death: YRS: 89

Residence: 608 Windt St

                     Greensboro, Guilemore, North Carolina, USA

Certificate#: 12339

Funeral Home: W. Ray Funeral Home

                            Madison, Rockland, County North Carolina USA

Find A Grave Memorial# 63838823

Informant: Mrs. Marion “Mimi” Anderson Spear

Interment: Woodland Cemetery Madison Rockingham County North Carolina

 NORTH CAROLINA DEATH RECORD

First Wife of Author Dies

 MADISON—Mrs. Cornelia Lane Anderson, 89, of Madison, the first wife of the late Sherwood Anderson, the well-known American Author, died at 10:55 a.m. Saturday at the Greensboro Nursing Home.

Funeral Plans are incomplete.  They body is at Ray Funeral Home.

 She was a native of Toledo, Ohio, and was educated at Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.  She was a retired Latin Teacher, having taught for many years in Indiana and Virginia.  She had made her home in Madison since her retirement.

Survivors are daughter, Mrs. Russell Spear of Madison; son, John Sherwood Anderson of Chicago, Ill,; half-brothers, Everett Lane of Grand Rapids, Mich. And James Lane of Lakeland, Mich.

 Memorial Should be made to the Madison Library

Date: Sunday, April 30, 1967 

Paper: Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, NC)  

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Source: http://phw01.newsbank.com/cache/arhb/fullsize/pl_005232014_0239_45641_370.pdf

Married: 16 May 1904 Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, USA

Marriage Lic#: 7022 

EOM: Divorce: Docket L 3025-8

Marriage Record

Date of   Divorce: July 27, 1916  Berrien County Court House by Circuit Court Judge George W. Bridgman

Divorce Documents Cornelia L. Anderson, Plaintiff, vs Sherwood Anderson, Defendant, in Docket L 3025-8 filed in the Circuit Court for the County of Berrien [Michigan], In Chancery.  The County Seat of Berrien is St. Joseph. 

Issues: Robert Lane, John Sherwood, and Marion “Miami” Anderson

Notes: Divorce Information Author Walter Bates Rideout 1^st Volume American Novelist Sherwood Berton Anderson.

SHORT-Bio

During Anderson’s second escape to Chicago, he met and fell in love with Cornelia Lane of Toledo. They married in 1904 and two years later they headed to Cleveland where he accepted the job as the president of the United Factories Company. After the birth of Cornelia and Sherwood’s first son, Robert in 1907, Anderson decided he needed to make more money to support his family. Anderson started up his own company and by 1908, Anderson Manufacturing Company was a success. Around the same time, his passion for literature increased. Anderson desperately tried to fulfill both his financial obligations to his family and his person obsession with literature, but the battle was difficult. Sherwood was also having trouble in his marriage. Anderson was quite the lady’s man and the marriage did not slow him down. On his business trips, “Anderson would slip away from them [business meetings], into an alley, for his own quick good time, or check into a hotel under an assumed name.” The tension between his personal gratifications, his troubled marriage and family obligations all came to a break down in November of 1912.

 Source:

http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/anderson/biography.htm

CHILDREN

ROBERT LANE ANDERSON

[1907-1951]

1.   Robert Lane. Anderson

    Born:  August 16, 1907 Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA

    Died: June 7, 1951 Marion, Smyth, Virginia, USA

    Spouse: Mary Leigh Chryst

    Parents: Sherwood Berton Anderson

                     Cornelia Platt Lane

    Occupation: Journalist

    Age at Death:  YRS: 44 MOS 10 DYS: 8

    Cause of Death: Sudden Death Natural after Vigilant

    Military Service: United States Navy Intelligence Officer

    Military Serial#: 138

    Political Party: Democrat

    President of the Young Republican Club

     Number: 227-03-3065; Issue State: Virginia; Issue Date: Before 1951

    Find A Grave Memorial# 82359742

    Funeral: Seaver & Son Funeral Home

                   Marion, Smyth, Virginia, USA

   Informant:  Mrs. Robert Lane Anderson deceased Wife

                        Marion, Smyth, Virginia, USA

    Physical Description: Weight: 160 Complexion: Light Eye Color:  Brown Hair Color: Brown Height: 5 10

    Political Office Held: Mayor of Marion Smyth County Virginia

    Interment: Round Hill Cemetery Marion Smyth County Virginia

Married: January 11, 1932, Smyth, Virginia, USA

EOM Death of Robert

Issues: Margaret Lane, And Elizabeth Anderson

Marion Publisher Mayor Succumbs

Marion, June 7,--[AP] Robert Lane Anderson, 44, mayor of Marion and newspaper publisher, died unexpectedly late this afternoon on the golf course here.

Anderson, editor and publisher of the Smythe County News, was the son of the late Sherwood Anderson, Novelist and playwright.  He succeeded his father as publisher of the paper.  He was a native of Ohio.

During World War II, Anderson served with the Navy.  He was active in civic Affairs here, was former president of the Marion Chamber of Commerce, and former president of the Marion Kiwanis Club.

Survivors include his wife, the former Mary Cryst; two daughters Misses Margaret and Elizabeth Anderson, of Marion; his mother. Mrs.c Cornelia Anderson, of Marion; one brother, John Anderson, of Abington; one sister, Mrs. Russell Spear, of Madison, N.C.

Daily Press Newport News Virginia, June 8, 1951 Fri Page 20 Robert Lane Anderson

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Birth Record

Death Record

MILITARY RECORD

JOHN SHERWOOD ANDERSON

2.      John Sherwood. Anderson

 Born:  December 31, 1908   Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

 Died: July 7, 1995 5521 S. Dorchester St.

                                  Chicago Cook County Illinois

 Spouse:  Mary Eleanor Crist 

Parents: Sherwood Berton Anderson

                 Cornelia Platt Lane

 Occupation: Artist-Teacher

Residence: 5521 S. Dorchester St.

                     Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA 60637

 Cause of Death: Personal

 Age at Death: 86 years, 6 months, 6 days

Death Certificate #: 612674

Funeral: Gerald Sullivan

                Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

Social Security #: 224-12-6203

Physical Description: Weight: 150 Complexion: Light Eye Color: Brown Hair Color: Brown Height: 5 10 Military Draft WII#: 579-261

Cremated: July 11, 1995  Cremation Park Cemetery

                                              Romeoville, Will, Illinois, USA

Cremation Society of Illinois Society

                    6471 N. Northwest HWY.

                    Chicago, Cook, Ill, USA 60631

Informant: Mr. Peter C. Anderson [son of John]

Inurnment:  Park Crematory Romeoville, Illinois—Cremation Society of Illinois

6471               Northwest Hwy, Chicago Cook Ill 606331

Married: 13 Nov 1937 Virginia

EOM: Death of Mary [Eleanor]

Issues; Judith, Peter, and Mark Sherwood Anderson

DEATH RECORD

 MILITARY RECORD

John Sherwood Anderson

In December 1926, writer Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) and his wife Elizabeth took two of their three children, John (1908–1995), and Marion (aka Mimi, 1911–1996), to Paris. “Within a few days . . . Elizabeth entered Mimi in a private French girls school, and Sherwood placed John in a pension to pick up French and, at Gertrude Stein’s suggestion, in the Académie Julian to study painting. The Andersons joyfully attended the Christmas party Gertrude had invited them to . . . .” While both parents left Paris soon after, it was arranged that Mimi was to stay on at her school until June 1, John at the Académie until September 1.

“John . . . who had expected to find Stein someone ‘arty with a long cigarette holder,’ had seen her several times and was much impressed by her ‘horse sense.’ After the older Andersons had left, John called on her frequently and became one of her favorites. She noted that upon his parents’ leaving he at once changed from ‘an awkward shy boy’ to an assured, handsome young man; decades later he would think of his whole stay in Paris as a young art student as ‘a golden time.’” (Walter B. Rideout, Sherwood Anderson: a Writer in America, v.1 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.)

Sherwood married his fourth wife Eleanor Copenhaver in 1933. The couple lived, on and off, at the exclusive the home of Mary Emmett (Mrs. Burton Emmett) at 54 Washington Mews in Greenwich Village. This painting was purchased by E.A. (presumably Elmer Adler) during the period they were at this address. In 1939, the writer came to Princeton to deliver a Spencer Trask Lecture entitled “Man and His Imagination.” He is quoted as saying, “The use of the imagination on a grand scale can lead to disastrous results. Every good storyteller is a born inventor, but when he lets his invention run away with him he destroys his story.” Daily Princetonian 64, no. 124 (20 October 1939). Elmer Adler brought Anderson’s painting to Princeton the next fall

Source:

https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2014/10/28/john-sherwood-anderson/

MARION "MIMI" ANDERSON

3.Marion Mimi Anderson

    Born:  October 29, 1911 Elyria, Elyria County, Ohio 

    Died:   January 20, 1996 Madison, Rockingham, North Carolina, USA'

  Spouse: Russell   Mayo Spear

    Parents: Sherwood Berton Anderson

                     Cornelia Platt Lane

    Occupation: Newspaper Journalist

     Residence: Hunter St, Madison, Rockingham, North Carolina, USA

     Age at Death: YRS: 84 MOS: 4 DYS 20

    Cause of Death: Unknown

    Find A Grave Memorial# 155027165

    Funeral: A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Madison Public Library. 

   Mortuary: W. Ray Funeral Home 

                           Madison Rockingham North Carolina, USA 

    Cremation: January 22, 1996

                         Buried In four Parts of the world 

    Interment: Woodland Cemetery Madison Rockingham County North Carolina 

Married: 02 Apr 1932 North Amherst,  Essex ,Massachusetts, USA

EOM: Death of Russell Mayo Spear

Issues: Karyln, Michael & David

 

Marion Anderson Spear  in the North Carolina, Death Indexes, 1908-2004

Name: Marion Anderson Spear [Marion Anderson Anderson]  Gender: Female Race: White Marital Status: Widowed Social Security Number: 243483964 Father's Last Name: Anderson Age: 84 Date of Birth: 29 Oct 1911 Residence City: Madison Residence County: Rockingham Residence State: North Carolina Date of Death: 20 Jan 1996 Death City: Madison Death County: Rockingham Death State: North Carolina Autopsy: No Institution: Home Attendant: Physician Burial Location: Cremation in state Source Vendor: NC Department of Health. North Carolina Deaths, 1993-96

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Lancaster Eagle Gazette Lancaster Ohio January 24, 1996 Wed Page: Marion Mimi Anderson Spear

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https://www.newspapers.com/image/295036091/?terms=Marion%2BMimi%2BSpear

Only daughter of Sherwood Anderson dies

Madison, N.C. [A.P.]—Marion “Mimi” Anderson son Spear, a newspaperwoman and the only daughter of author Sherwood Anderson, died Saturday after a long illness.  She was 84

Mrs. Spear was born to Anderson and his first wife, the late Cornelia Lane Anerson.

During her life as a newspaper woman, Mrs. Spear helped Anderson Scholars build biographies of the writer known for his novels and short stories, most notably his collection “Winesburg, Ohio.”

Anderson was a member f Gertrude Stein’s Paris Colony of authors and artists known as the “Lost Generation.”  In his memory, Mrs. Spear helped Organize the Sherwood Anderson Literary Foundation in 1989 to award Scholarships to young writers  Mrs. Spear was the widow of Russell Mayo Spear of Madison.  The coupled owned Madison’s newspaper, The Messenger, for more than 40 years.

Mrs. Spear is survived by a daughter and two sons.