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Alice Elizabeth Anderson

March 13, 1855 – June 18, 1938

Lived 83 years

Quincy Valley Cemetery · Quincy, Washington

Life story

Alice Elizabeth Allen was born in 1855 in New York to Hiram and Mary Prince Allen. They moved to Appleton, Wisconsin when she was 5 years old in 1860. She married Edwin William Anderson on 9 April 1876 in Winnebago, Wisconsin. They had two sons together Fred E. Anderson born 1877 and Haley H. Anderson born in 1891. She was living in Quincy, Washington in 1920, when her husband Erwin passed away from a stroke on 15 December 1921. She was living in Longview, Washington in 1930 and passed away in Ephrata, Washington on June 18, 1938 from malignant stomach cancer and bronchial pneumonia, when she was 83 years old.

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1855

Born March 13

1859

Alice was 4 when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species

1863

Alice was 8 when Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address

1876

Alice was 21 when Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call

1889

Alice was 34 when Washington became the 42nd state

1892

Alice was 37 when Quincy began as a Great Northern Railway camp

1903

Alice was 48 when the Wright brothers made the first powered flight

1916

Alice was 61 when William Boeing founded the company that became Boeing

1920

Alice was 65 when Prohibition began

1933

Alice was 78 when construction began on Grand Coulee Dam

1938

Passed away June 18, age 83

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The Anderson name at Quincy Valley Cemetery

EA Erwin William Anderson1850 – 1921 AA Amy S. Anderson1898

Chester Steven Anderson1911 – 1975

Mae Bell Gertrude Anderson1912 – 1983 AA Arthur Melvin Anderson1920 – 1994 AA Arthur M Anderson1920 – 1994

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