Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Saunders, Tom February 1900
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Jackson Argus - Wk of March 2, 1900
Uncle Tom Saunders Dead – An Old Citizen

Uncle Tom Saunders, the oldest citizen of this county, died at the home of his 
daughter, Mrs. W. A. Elder, at Indian Spring last Sunday.

Mr. Saunders was an old merchant of this county and has hauled thousands of 
good from Savannah to Iron Spring where they were retailed.  When the war 
between the states broke out Mr. Saunders was too old to go to war and so he 
stayed at home and merchandised.  He was a man of much intelligence and of 
strong individually.  He was regarded with great respect by all who knew him 
and it can be said truly of him” an old landmark has gone”.  Concerning Mr. 
Saunders death the Flovilla correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution said on 
Monday:
Thomas Jefferson Saunders, the oldest inhabitant of Indian Spring, died last 
night of heart failure.  Mr. Saunders was born 1808 and was a pioneer citizen 
and merchant of this place coming here immediately after the treaty with the 
Indians, which ceded to the state of Georgia all the part of Butts county known 
as the Indian Spring reserve.  He was always a successful and useful citizen.  
On his ninetieth birthday he with Dr. E. B. Elder voted for Allen D. Candler 
for governor, it being Mr. Saunders’s last vote and Dr. Elders first.  With the 
passing away of Mr. Saunders the last of the old set – Elder, Collier, Bryan, 
Wright, Lawson and others, all of whom lived to be very old – have gone.

Mr. Saunders leaves three daughters, ten grandchildren and four great 
grandchildren, his daughters being Mrs. Jeannie Elder, of Indian Spring, Mrs. 
Lonia Health of Macon, and Mrs. Susan Slaughter of Jackson.  The funeral 
services and burial will occur tomorrow at 10 o’clock at the family burying 
ground at Indian Springs.

Jackson Argus – Butts County
Week of March 2, 1900


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