According to Ruth Beddingfield Helms in The Heritage of Henderson County, Volume II, Around one hundred eighteen years ago the Rev. John Wesley Anderson and his wife Lucinda Matilda McCrary were buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery. He was the son of John Anderson and Margaret Elvira Reid Anderson. John Wesley was a Baptist Minister and circuit rider. He served one term in the North Carolina Legislature in 1891. He and his wife had 16 children. During the summer of 1899, he contracted typhoid fever while helping care of sick parishioners and died. Matilda was left with 13 children at home ranging from 9 months to 22 years old. She died of typhoid fever a few weeks after the death of her husband.”
