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Note: 1880 Census, Town of Belton, Mt. Pleasant Township, Cass County, Missouri enumerated June 2, 1880 Dwelling #20, Family #21 ALDERSON, G.G., head, w/m, 30, KY KY KY, teamster _________, R.A., wife, w/f, 35, MO KY OH _________, C.E., daughter, w/f, 5, MO KY MO _________, J.C., son, w/m, 2, MO KY MO (probably Chester) 1900 Census, Mt. Pleasant Township, Cass County, Missouri Dwelling #321, Family #323 ALDERSON, George G., head, w/m, July 1849, 50, KY KY KY, Farmer _________, Rachel A., wife, w/f, Jan'y 1844, 56, MO UN OH, married 26 yrs, mother of 5, 3 living _________, Chester, son, w/m, March 1878, 22, MO KY MO, Farmer, single _________, Naomi, daughter, w/f, March 1881, MO KY MO 1910 Census, Mount Pleasant Township, Cass County, Missouri enumerated May 11, 1910 Dwelling #372, Family 376 ALDERSON, George G., head, m/w, 60, KY KY KY, farmer-general farmer _________, Rachel A., wife, f/w, 6?, MO KY IN, married 37 years, mother of 5, 3 living 1920 Census, Mt. Pleasant Township, Cass County, Missouri Dwelling #317, Family #324 ALDERSON, George G., head, m/w, 70, KY KY KY, Farmer, Widow _________, Elmore, brother, m/w, 72, KY KY KY, Widow JACKSON, Naomi E., daughter, f/w, 38, MO KY MO, Widow ________, Mildred, granddaughter, f/w, 16, MO MO MO ________, Ruth, granddaughter, f/w, 14, MO KS MO ________, Kenneth, grandson, m/w, 12, MO KS MO ________, Morris, grandson, m/w, 10, MO KS MO ________, Lois, granddaughter, f/w, 8, MO KS MO ________, Nadine, granddaughter, f/w, 5, MO KS MO History of Cass County, Missouri Topeka: Historical Pub. Co., 1917, 858 pgs. (page 431&432) G. G. Alderson, a prominent farmer and stockman of Mt. Pleasant township, belongs to a pioneer family of Cass County. He was born in Simpson County, Kentucky, in 1849, and is a son of John B. and Ruth (Thompson) Alderson. The Aldersons are an old Virginia family and at an early date removed from that state to Kentucky. They have been tillers of the soil for generations, and men and women of noble character. G. G. Alderson come to Missouri with his parents in 1856, when he was about seven years of age. The family located in Cass County on a farm and two years later they removed to Louisburg, Kansas. Kansas was yet a territory at that time, and in 1864, the Alderson family sold their claim in Kansas and after the war returned to Cass County. G. G. Alderson remembers many incidents in connection with the Civil War. He saw Quantrill and his men when they were on they way to Lawrence, Kansas, and also saw them returning after the Lawrence raid. After the war, the Alderson family, like many others whose places had been devastated, were practically destitute and had great difficulty in getting a start. Everything movable on their place had been destroyed or carried away, even the fences. The first horse which Mr. Alderson ever owned, he took in exchange for four months' work. Later he traded this horse for a team. In 1873, shortly after his marriage, Mr. Alderson followed farming for a few years, when he removed to Belton and followed building, making a specialty of building stone foundations for residences and other buildings, and many of the houses standing in Belton today rest on foundations that he built. In 1892 he returned to the old homestead and bought the interests of the other heirs and has since made his home there and been very successful in farming and stock raising. He has specialized in raising mules, which he has found very profitable. Mr. Alderson was married in 1873 to Miss Rachel A. Young, a daughter of Chesney and Elizabeth Young, Cass County Pioneers. Mr. Young entered three hundred acres of land near Belton at a very early day. At one time he owned one hundred and sixty acres of land in the vicinity of Fifteenth Street, Kansas City, which he sold in 1849. He was an extensive cattle man. He died in 1851. In 1854 his widow married William Mullen, and four children were born to them. Mrs. Alderson was one of a family of six children, born to her mother's first marriage. To Mr. and Mrs. Alderson have been born four children, two of whom are now living: Robert Chesney Alderson, and Noami, who married William A. Jackson, a son of C. S. and Matilda Jackson. He died in 1915. To Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were born six children, as follows: Mildred, Ruth, Kenneth, Morris, Lois, and Nadine. Mr. Alderson is one of the real pioneers of Cass County. When he came here this country was practically all open prairie, covered with a rank growth of blue stem. Independence, Missouri, was the nearest postoffice, and conveniences, which are the usual ear-marks of civilization, were sadly lacking, yet the people of those days enjoyed themselves. They had their parties and took just as much interest, and perhaps more, in life than people do nowadays. OBITUARY---Death of George Alderson George Gibson Alderson was born July 12, 1849, in Allen County Kentucky. He died August 17, 1921, at his home south of Belton, aged 72 years, 1 month and 5 days. Mr. Alderson came to Missouri at the age of seven. In 1872, he was married to Mrs. Rachel A. Jackson. Mr. Alderson had made his home on the farm, near Belton where he died, for twenty eight years, and was a resident of the vicinity of Belton almost all of his life. Surviving him are a son, Chester Alderson; a daughter, Mrs. Will Jackson; eight grandchildren; three brothers and a sister, Will Alderson, of Waldron, Kans; Irving Alderson, of Excelsior Springs, Ark; Elmore Alderson, of Belton, and Mrs. Mary Armstrong, of Howard, Kans. He also leaves three half-brothers and a half sister. His death will be mourned by a host of friends who live in this community. The funeral services were conducted on Friday at the Baptist church, of which Mr. Alderson was a member, by Rev. Roy Osbourne Chaney and was attended by a large company of the deceased man's friends. Burial was at the Belton cemetery.
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