Anna Matilda (Downing) Anspach was born on January 13, 1886. She was the daughter of Charles James and Martha (Carmen) Downing.

She married Charles Henry Anspach and they had two children:

1. Leroy David Anspach

2. Grace Laura (Anspach) Giles

Anna died on December 10, 1919 at the age of 33 and is buried in Ridgeway Cemetery in Ridgeway Township, Lenawee County, Michigan.

"Anna Matilda was born January 13, 1886. She married a man from Detroit named Charles Henry Anspach, who had a son, Charles, Jr.  Charles and Anna's first born, LeRoy David, was born May 10, 1914, but lived less than three months. He died on August 1, 1914, with spinal meningitis.

After their daughter, Grace Laura, was born, Charles quit his job in Detroit, and since all the Downings were prosperous farmers, he felt obligated to try his hand at making their living off the land, too. They lived on several different farms in the Ridgeway area, but he finally realized he was no farmer, so he gave up that occupation.

When she was only 32 years old, Anna developed cancer. She thought it was the result of an accident she had some years before, where she was thrown out of a buggy. During Anna's last weeks, Estella (her mother) took care of her in their home...On December 10, 1919, at the age of 33 years, 1 month, and 3 days, Anna succumbed to the dread disease."