She was a deep thinker on the most advanced social and religious topics of her day, and occasionally published her views on woman in her political and civil relations.

[4] Margaret Mills Anderson[5] was born in a country place near Danville, Kentucky, September 3, 1832.

Simeon H. Anderson, a lawyer and orator, who died while he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.

John Owsley (1635–1687), who in 1660 was made rector of the Established Church in Glouston, England, in which place he served sixty years.

[1] Ample means gave her fine educational advantages, her studies including classical learning and all the events of the era.

[1] During the revision of the constitution of Kentucky towards the end of the 19th-century, she was chosen one of six women to visit the capital and secure a hearing before the committees on education and municipalities, and on the Woman's Property Rights Bill, which was under discussion.

The work was begun with a few thousand dollars and was sustained and carried on by gratuitous contributions from the people of the city.

[7] An elected officer of the John Marshall Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, she served as its historian in 1902.

[12] Margaret Anderson Watts died April 30, 1905, at the home of her daughter, Julia Mead, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.