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Robert Barber Anderson, son of William Anderson, grandson of Robert Anderson, late of Giles County, Tennessee, and great-grandson of William Anderson, of Revolutionary memory, and his wife, Nancy Stephenson, of South Carolina, was born March 13, 1840. He lives in Chester County, South Carolina, on an extensive plantation near Richburg. He is a successful farmer, a very popular, good humored man—a man who to be known is to be admired for his charity, industry and Christian virtues. He has been twice married. His present wife was a Miss Barber, a relative. She is a noble, good woman, a lenient and painstaking stepmother. She and her husband have no children. They are leading members of the Mount Prospect Southern Methodist Church. There were born unto Mr. Anderson and his first wife four children, three sons and one daughter. Joseph, the oldest son, was graduated from a South