Tipton County IN Archives Biographies.....Sanders, William 1842 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   WILLIAM SANDERS, farmer and stock-raiser, is a native of Hendricks County,
Ind.; was born November 15, 1842, and is the son of Samson and Sarah (Russel)
Sanders, both natives of North Carolina. William Sanders, at the age of ten,
came to Tipton County, and was reared in the forest by one of the pioneer
farmers. At the age of nineteen, he enlisted, in July, 1861, in Company G,
Thirty-ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He participated in battle at
Shiloh, at Corinth, Crab Orchard and Stone River, after which his regiment was
mounted and known as the Thirty-ninth Maryland Infantry. Mr. Sanders re-enlisted
in 1864, near Murfreesboro, Tenn., after which he was detailed as company
blacksmith. In June, 1865, he was honorably discharged. He returned home and
invested his money in eighty acres of wild land, and made several changes until
1877, when he, in February, 1877, returned to Windfall, and conducted a
blacksmith shop for two years, and in December, 1880, purchased his present home
of sixty acres, where he has since resided. Mr. Sanders was married in March,
1861, to Miss Mary A. Jones, of Madison County. They had one child -William. He
was next married in March, 1866, to Miss Sarah Level; they have had five
children-Rosetta, Clinton (deceased), Mary E., Francis M. and James. Mr. Sanders
was reared a Democrat, and is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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