When Edmund Anderson was born in 1778, in Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Anderson, was 32 and his mother, Anna Batterton, was 36. He married Anne Paar Boulware on 3 November 1814, in United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in St. Johns Township, Franklin, Missouri, United States in 1830. He died on 19 January 1835, at the age of 57.