First Name:
Charles
Last Name:
Anderson
Type: Light Keeper
Born:
1854
Died:
1912
Place(s)
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1884
Year Departed:
1884
Begin Salary:
600
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Year Started:
1884
Year Departed:
1912
Begin Salary:
560
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Aug 28, 2017
KEPT LIGHT FOR YEARS
Beaufort, Jan 26 [1912] -- Charles Anderson, a Swede by birth and for 27 years in charge of the Parris Island light house, near Port Road, died early Wednesday morning. His body was brought up to Beaufort by his assistant, Paul Wright, and interred Thursday afternoon in the Evergreen cemetery of this city. Mr Anderson had been in ill health for about nine months.
January 27, 1912 The State, Columbia, SC