When Emmett Colby Anderson was born on 14 August 1862, in Rocky Fork Township, Boone, Missouri, United States, his father, William W. Anderson, was 25 and his mother, Susan Jane Bush, was 18. He married Nancy B. "Nannie" Roberts on 18 July 1880, in Boone, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Centralia, Boone, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Boone, Missouri, United States in 1921. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 30 September 1925, in Columbia, Boone, Missouri, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Centralia, Boone, Missouri, United States.
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Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
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