!Mendocino Herald--Feb. 7, 1868--Page 3 Col. 1 Walter Anderson--Obituary--We are requested by a relative of his to give place to the following obituary notice of Walter Anderson whose death was noticed under the proper head in our last weeks issue: Walter Anderson was born August 5, 1785. He ws the first white child born on the Seneca River in South Carolina. He emigrated to Kentucky at an early day, and from thence to Illinois. He came to California in 1845, in company with "old John Potter" and was the first settler of Anderson Valley, from whom that valley takes its name, in 1851. Several attempts have been made to induce him to set up a claim to a Spanish Grant, covering Anderson Valley, but the old man's honesty prevented the swindle. Nothing of the kind has yet happened in Anderson Valley and we have good reason to believe it never will. Perhaps the old gentleman has made nothing, in a worldly sense, by this abstinence from a participation in the common evil of California, but if there is a just God in Heaven, he will there receive his reward. His request was that he should be buried by the side of his wife, the partner of his joys and sorrows, on the old homestead in Anderson Valley. Though he was temporarily interred here, we learn it is the intention of his friends to comply with his request by removing him thither as soon as the weather has fairly settled. At the day of his death, the old gentleman could see to read without his spectacles, never having lost his eyesight. He was at
the time of his death eighty-two years and six months of age.

!Buried at Boonville, Rawles-Babcock Cemetery next to his beloved wife Rhoda