Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a sketch of William Beverly Anderson cut from a newspaper. Anderson was born in Kentucky in 1859. His father, George W. Anderson, had a successful shoe store in Portsmouth, and William joined him in 1874, after being a farmer for years. He remained in the business until his father's death in 1895. William took over the shoe store after this.
Also picture: newspaper advertisement for Edward T. Welch Wholesale Confectioner on Second (2nd) Street
Reprint photograph.
William Asbury Sam(p)son
b. February 5, 1829
d. November 6, 1892, 63y 9m 1d
Buried: Stockdale Cemetery
Married; Ariette Onsrepta Smith
December 27, 1849
#2 Nancy Cook James, August 27, 1865, Jackson County, Ohio.
