Lorena C. Anderson

Insignia - Woodmen Circle
Lorena C. Anderson
Born May 3, 1855
Died Sept. 20, 1910

Photo Credit: Rosa G. Gonzales

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Lorena C. Anderson

Lorena Cleveland was born May 3, 1855. By the 1900 census (ED 130, p. 9B) she was a native of Texas. She lists her father as from Ohio and her mother as from Germany. On December 30, 1886 she married Capt. Charles Anderson, son of Swedish born Captain John Anderson and Hannah Bowen Yung (who also has relatives in Old Bayview). Charles followed the life of a seaman like his father and brothers and was captain of the schooner “Two Brothersâ€. He died of typhoid fever on October 31, 1888. Lorena was thus left childless and a widow relatively early in life, but she never married again. By the 1900 census she reports that she had her widowed father living with her at the family home in the 900 block of Mesquite Street. The census notes that after her husband died she earned a living as a dressmaker, and she owned her home free of any mortgage. Her father, James Cleveland, lists himself as a native of Ohio, born in January of 1830. Presumably Lorena cared for her father until his death because in the 1910 census (ED 98, sheet 24) she is living alone. She died shortly after the census as she only lived until September 20 of 1910 and was buried next to the remains of her husband Charles.

Research and transcription: Michael A. Howell