Obit: John Horatio Sanders, 1951, Lincoln Parish, LA
Submitted by: Jeffrey L. Martin, 8706 Chelsworth Dr., Houston, TX 77083


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John Horatio Sanders (April 26, 1860 - April 10, 1951)

SOURCE: Newspaper clipping from (probably Shreveport) newspaper

JOHN SANDERS SUCCUMBS TO LONG ILLNESS

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Rose-Neath funeral chapel
for JOHN H. SANDERS, 91, retired livestock dealer, 1602 Allen avenue, who died
at 9:30 a.m. yesterday in a local hospital after a long illness. 

Graveside services will be conducted later in the day at 1 p.m. at Longstraw
Cemetery in Ruston. 

Sanders, a native of Georgia, had been a Shreveport resident for the past 40
years. He had made his home with Mrs. Minnie Taylor. He served as deputy
sheriff of Lincoln parish where he lived for a number of years before coming
to Shreveport.

Surviving, in addition to Mrs. Taylor, are one son, H. Ray Sanders,
Shreveport; two other daughters, Mrs. Charles P. Schultz, Houston, and Mrs.
Curt R. Buck, San Antonio; nine grandchildren; 10 great grandchildren; and two
great-great-grandchildren.

[Submitter's Note: John Horatio Sanders owned the general store in Choudrant
for many years up until about 1926. He was also said to have been mayor and
sheriff at the same time.              - Jeffrey L. Martin, gg-grandson]