Conecuh County AlArchives Biographies.....Sanders, Isaac M. November 2 1849 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   ISAAC M. SANDERS. -Few planters in southern Alabama are as widely known as
Isaac M. Sanders, one of the intelligent and representative men of Conecuh
county. His parents were James N. and Nancy Jane Sanders, the father a native of
Georgia, born in Jones county, in the year 1822. He was a leading farmer of Pike
county, Ala., to which part of the state he removed with his father, Isaac
Sanders, about the year 1853, and is remembered as a man of excellent moral
character, of whom it has been said, by those who knew him best, that a better
farmer and more scrupulously honest and upright citizen it was never their
fortune to meet. In 1841, in the state of Georgia, he married Nancy Sledge, and
in 1852 moved to Pike county, Ala., where Mrs. Sanders died, in 1859. She bore
her husband four children, namely: Amos A., Isaac M., Thomas S., and Mary A. Mr.
Sanders' second marriage was solemnized, in 1861, with Mrs. Perdue, and she also
became the mother of four children, whose names are as follows: Amanda J., wife
of _James C. Shirley; James, Alice, wife of Dr. William Eiland; Elizabeth
Victoria, wife of Samuel Casey, and Stephen W., who resides with his widowed
mother at Troy, Ala. Mr. Sanders died full of years and honors and greatly
lamented by a large circle of relatives and friends, in November, 1890. Isaac M.
Sanders was born November 2, 1849, in Upson county, Ga., and at the age of three
years was brought by his parents to Alabama, of which state he has since been a
resident. His educational training embraced the common school course, and at the
age of twenty he began his life work as an agriculturist, which he has since
followed with success such as few planters attain. After his marriage, which was
consummated December 20, 1871, with Mary S. Perdue, he followed his chosen
calling for three years in Pike county, and in 1875 moved to his present large
plantation, consisting of 1,500 acres, two miles northwest of Brooklyn, where he
has since resided. In addition to his farming interests, Mr. Sanders is also
connected with the timber business of Conecuh county, being principal member of
the J. M. Sanders milling firm, which owns a large mill on Indigo creek, south
of Brooklyn, where square timber is manufactured on an extensive scale. Mrs.
Sanders, a most estimable lady, is a daughter of Jalus and Alvira Perdue, and
was born and raised in Pike county, Ala. She has borne her husband six children,
namely; James Jalus, John A., Shelby B., Hillary Hubbard, Amos B., and Capt.
Monroe. Mr. Sanders is a notable example of the successful self-made man. He
began the struggle of life without a dollar of his own, but the school of
adversity, in which his early life was invigorated, proved an experience which
in after years enabled him to overcome discouraging obstacles and wring success,
from that which to many a man of less firm purpose would have proved defeat. All
of his business transactions are dictated by shrewd common sense and a correct
judgment that seems to be inborn and intuitive, and he impresses those with whom
he comes in contact as a man of more than ordinary intelligence and sagacity.
His family of manly boys, whom he is raising to practical work, and educating
with unstinted purse, would be a credit to any father, and right proud is he in
the reflection of the good name inherited from a noble ancestry will, in no
wise, suffer by the injudicious action of any of his children. In politics, Mr.
Sanders is a democrat, and in religion a Baptist.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 719-720

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