OSCAR WILLIAM ANDERSON was born April 1866 in Sweden. He immigrated to the US in 1882 and lived in Bishop Hill, Illinois where he met Alyce Laura ERICKSON. They were married in Kirkland, Washington on June 24, 1890. He lived in Kirkland, Washington much of his life. The 1900 US Census lists him as a coal miner; in 1920 he was a blacksmith living with his daughter Juanita and husband. In 1940 he was divorced and living in Palmer, Alaska. He died in Alaska in 1940.
Alyce Erickson Anderson and Oscar William Anderson, who both died in 1940, are buried in adjacent graves in the Seldovia City Cemetery, Plots #53 and #54.