A Portrait and Biographical Record of Hendricks County (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895)--pages 1082-1083
Thomas T. Anderson, deceased, of Plainfield, Hendricks County, Ind. The grandfather of Thomas T. Anderson was born in New Jersey and moved to Ohio and married Mary Thatcher and had born to him the following children: Julia A., Thomas T., Eliza, Joel, Martha, Ruth. They both lived near Cincinnati some years, then moved to Kosciusko County, Iowa, where they died. The father, Thomas T. Anderson, was born in Ohio March 20, 1815, was a brick-mason, but usually engaged in farming, especially in his later life. He married Martha N. Ashcroft, daughter of Archibald and Ann Ashcroft, of Ohio. Their children, in order, were: Mary A., Lydia, Julia A., Asenath, all now deceased. The wife died June 9, 1857, a member of the Society of Friends. The second marriage of Thomas T. Anderson, Sr., was with Annie White, widow of William C. Williams, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Coffin) White, of Guilford County, N.C., but later of Morgan County, Ind., having come here in 1825, and building a rail pen to put goods in until they could build a cabin. Both are deceased. One child was born to Mrs. Anderson by her first marriage, Hulda A., married to a Timberlake of Indianapolis. Mrs. Anderson's children by her second marriage were Lanie (deceased), Joel (deceased), Benjamin W. and Eli H., who attended the academy at Plainfield and now is living with the mother and managing a 320-acre farm, with a good house and barn. Politically he is a stanch Republican.