Obituary: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Spencer SANDERS

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Daily Northwestern February 16, 1889

Spencer Sanders died Friday morning about two o'clock at the
residence of his daughter, Mrs. Newell on Main street.  The
deceased was in his ninetieth year.



Daily Northwestern February 22, 1889

Obituary

Spencer Sanders was born April 13, 1799, in the state of
Rhode Island, and died in Oshkosh, Wis., February 15, 1889. 
He was the second son of a family of ten children.  His
parents both lived to be ninety-two and his grandmother
ninety-nine years of age.  In early boyhood he moved with
his parents to the state of Connecticut.  In 1822 he married
Lucky Fish of Voluntown, Conn.  In 1828 he moved to
Sullivan, Madison county, New York.  Seven of his family of
eight children survive him.  Geo. S. Sanders, of Minnesota,
E.W. Sanders, Oshkosh, Wis., A.T. Sanders, Fisk, Wis., Mrs.
Denny, Summit, Wis., Mrs. Forbes, Kansas, Mrs. Newell and
Miss Rilla Sanders, of Oshkosh.  In 1835 he came to Genesee,
Waukesha county, Wis.  His first wife died in 1865.  He
subsequently married Miss Julia Anderson, of Summit, Wis.
She died in 1884, since which time he has lived with his
daughter in this city.  He was actively engaged in farming
until eighty-four years of age.  He was for sixty years a
member of the Methodist church.  A man of excellent
Christian character and sterling worth.  After a long and
useful life he has entered into rest.  He leaves behind me
as a heritage to his family and friends, the record of a
noble life.