Cass County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Sanders, Edna Bell (Vaughn) 
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Cemetery:           Chain Lake Cemetery
Name:               Edna Bell (Vaughn) Sanders

Date Of Photograph: May 26, 2007
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Edna B. Sanders 

1885-1980

Edna Sanders shares a marker with her husband Oscar Sanders. Edna was born 2 
Aug 1885 in Cass Co.   Edna Bell Vaughn was the daughter of Uriah Vaughn b. 
1857 and Helena Anderson b. 1865.   Edna Vaughn had 6 siblings: Byron Ulysses 
Vaughn b. 30 Dec 1881, Sadie Vaughn (Ford) b. 28 Oct 1883, Harlan Vaughn b. 
1887, Retta Vaughn (Brown) b. 1889, Glendora Vaughn (Evans) b. 10 Mar 1898.  

Edna achieved an eighth grade education.  When 16 years of age Edna worked for 
$2.50 a week!

At the age of 24, Edna B. Vaughn married Oscar Sanders on 21 Jan 1905 in Cass 
County, Michigan. They lived in Calvin Township and later moved to Porter 
Township.  Their offspring were Lester Sanders, b. 1906, Estella Bernice 
Sanders, b. 25 Feb 1909 Cass Co., Marshall Howe Sanders, Sr. b. 10 Mar 1911 
Porter Twp,  Myrl Sanders, b. 1918.  

Edna was a member of Mt. Zion Church, but in 1928 she became a charter member 
of the Calvin Community Chapel Church.   She was president of the Uplift 
League, a communion keeper, and an Eastern Star member.  She was a tireless 
church worker for the two primary fund raisers; the annual Grove/Bush Meeting 
and the fall Rabbit Supper. 

Edna Vaughn Sanders died 8 Sep 1980 at the age of 95.  Her service was held at 
Calvin Community Chapel on Thursday 11 Sep 1980 at 3:00 P.M., Reverend Julius 
Davis officiated.  The organist was Jackie Simpson Haines, and the soloist was 
Sarah Davis.  Pallbearers: Hursell Grady, Kenneth Haines, Alvin Steele, Emerson 
Haines, Clarence Haines and Ivan Lawson.  Internment was at Chain Lake 
Cemetery.  Funeral Services were conducted by Connelly Funeral Home, 
Cassopolis, Michigan.

Chain Lake Cemetery entrance coordinates are 41 deg 51’ 36”N, 85 deg 53’ 15”W



Additional Comments:
Additional Comments: 
Contributors:  Maurice Wilson Sanders, author of “Allen-Sanders Descendants”, 
1985, Rosanna Allen Wilson, author of “Allen History 1924”, and Debra 
McIntosh, “Ancestry of Charles Sidney Smith.” 
Relationship: Edna B. Sanders is mother of Marshall Howe Sanders, Sr.  She is 
the paternal Grandmother of Marshall Howe Sanders, Jr. and Maurice Wilson 
Sanders and 6 other grandchildren. 
Transcribed and Photographed:  Sharon A. Simeon and Marshall H. Sanders, Jr. 


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