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After graduating from Hendrix, Elisabeth Harton taught high school in North Little Rock. She soon found a more glamorous life in New York City, where she was a hostess at Schraffts Restaurant, all while maintaining contact with John Peyton Anderson, son of Stonewall Anderson, the first President of Hendrix College.

When she and John married, they moved to Guilford College in North Carolina, where she coached women's sports and he coached men's. After her husband received his Ph.D. in psychology at Columbia University, they had their sons, John Peyton Jr., and Daniel Stonewall. During WWll, Dr. Anderson was commissioned as an offer in the Medical Service Corps and they were stationed on Monterey Peninsula. When the war was over, they moved back to Arkansas where her husband held teaching positions, first at Hendrix then at the University of Arkansas. Their daughter, Elisabeth Dove, was born in Arkansas.

Anderson was devoted to raising her children, and to the flock of colorful birds she fed on her back porch. She was active in the effort to preserve the Buffalo River in its wild state. Her grandchildren (Jeanne Elisabeth, Holly Elisabeth, Storm Peyton, Harton Daniel, and John Peyton lll) gave her great joy, though she didn't get to meet her youngest grandchild or any of her six great-grandchildren (Elisabeth, Ted, Emelia, Daniel, Payton, and Steele).

Anderson lived in Little Rock and Fayetteville, but in her heart, the big house in Conway was always home. She died in 1975 after a brief illness.