SANDERS, Edward A., NY., then St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
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EDWARD A. SANDERS, FRANKLIN.--Edward A. Sanders was born in New York, July 2,
1817.  He received a meagre education in the public schools of Ohio, where he
spent his boyhood.  He started doing for himself at the age of twenty-one
years as a brick maker and bricklayer, and has been thus engaged most of his
life.  He was married to Miss Goff, who was born in Virginia in 1820.  There
were born to this marriage eight children, five of whom are still living:
Delicia, wife of George Howard;  Flora,  Helena, wife of Jules Meyeret;  John
H. and  Gordan. Those dead are:  Anna, died 1861;  Cyrus, died 1873;  Borena,
died 1854.  The mother of these children died in 1866.

Our subject has had a checkered career.  During the Civil War he was pressed
into service (though neutral) by the Federal authorities.  They also destroyed
a great amount of property in the way of boats and  stock for him.  They also
appropriated twenty-four bales of cotton belonging to him.  In recent years
all his property was destroyed by fire.  Notwithstanding that, he still has a
comfortable house in Franklin.  He also has 160 acres of timber land in St.
Mary parish, and some interests in Virginia.

Our subject is a Methodist in belief, though not a communicant.  The rest of
the family are Roman Catholics.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 384.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.