Southey Sanders

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     Nickname: Suddy

     
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Event Date Details
Birth ABT 1778 Place: Craven County North Carolina, United States
Death BEF 1860 Place: Grundy County Tennessee, United States
Census 1820 Place: Franklin County, Tennessee, United States

1820 Census Franklin County Tennessee

In 1820 Southy Sanders was enumerated in the census of Franklin County, Tennessee. He was listed as twenty-six to forty-five years of age. Living with him were two children, a boy and a girl, under the age of ten. There was also a female, age sixteen to twenty-six, in his household who was the right age to be his wife Nancy. The families of Thomas and Jacob Sanders lived on either side of him.


1820 Census Franklin County, Tennessee
Page: 97     Quality: Primary
Data Date: 7 AUG 1820
Census 1830 Place: Franklin County, Tennessee, United States

1830 Census Franklin Co Tennessee

In 1830 Suddy Sanders was again the head of the household in Franklin County, Tennessee, living with his wife and six children, four sons and two daughters. Suddy was incorrectly listed as thirty to forty (he would have been at least fifty-two) and his wife was incorrectly listed as twenty to thirty. If she was the same wife that he had in 1850, she would have been thirty-six years of age in 1830. Living just a few households from them in 1830 was Solomon Sanders, who was listed as ninety to one hundred years of age.

 
Source:
1830 Census Franklin TN (Sanders)
Page: FHC Film # 24534     Quality:Primary
Census 1840 Place: Coffee County, Tennessee, United States

1840 Census Coffee County Tennessee

In 1840 the Sanders family lived in Coffee County. Suddy was incorrectly listed as fifty to sixty (he would have been at least sixty-two) and Nancy was correctly listed as forty to fifty. There are two males in the household aged fifteen to twenty who are not compatible with the known family data and remain unidentified. Otherwise, the numbers, ages, and sex of the children fit with the known family information.


Source:
1840 Census Coffee, Tennessee
Quality: Secondary
Census 1850 Place: Civil District 7 Grundy County Tennessee

1850 Census Grundy County Tennessee
In 1850 the family was in Civil District 7 of Grundy County, Tennessee, with two of the surviving triplets, George Washington and Delila, both sixteen years of age. Southy was seventy-six years of age and Nancy was fifty-six. Seven children lived with them.


Source:
1850 Census Grundy County Tennessee
Quality: Primary
War of 1812 1812 Place: Fought in the Battle of New Orleans
Southerland [Southey] Sanders in the War of 1812-1815

Southerland "Southey" Sanders was a participant in the War of 1812-1815 [Battle of New Orleans[. It is from the muster roll books for Capt Wm. Metcalf's Regiment that the use of the name Southerland was first found.

Southey's  company:

COLONEL WILLIAM METCALF:
DESIGNATION: 1st Regiment West Tennessee Militia
DATES: November 1814 - May 1815
MEN MOSTLY FROM: Davidson, Bedford, Franklin, Lincoln, Maury, Warren, and Giles Counties
CAPTAINS: John Barnhart, Daniel M. Bradford, Barbe Collins, John Cunningham, Lewis Dillahunty, Alexander Hill, Bird S. Hurt, John Jackson, Thomas Marks, William Mullen, Andrew Patterson, William Sitton, Obidiah Waller

BRIEF HISTORY:
Part of the division under Major General William Carroll's at New Orleans, this regiment comprised the right section of Carroll's line at the breastworks at Chalmette. Muster rolls show casualties in the engagements of December 1814 and January 1815. Lieutenant Colonel James Henderson was killed in the skirmish of 28 December 1814. Captain Daniel Bradford led the elite corps known as "Carroll's Life Guard." The division reached New Orleans in mid-December 1814 after an excursion down the Mississippi River.

Note from the Authors: Almost all the men named herein, where involved in actual campaigning, served in the Creek War of 1813-14 (a sub-conflict of the war of 1812) or in the New Orleans campaign which culminated in the victory of the Americans at Chalmette in Jan 1815.

Ironically, most deaths of Tennesseans where the result of an apparent epidemic of some unknown malady after the war was over, in the late winter and spring of 1815. History books do not seem to mention this epidemic but a perusal of the service records clearly reveals its existence."


Tennesseans in the War of 1812, Sistler, Byron & Samuel (Nashville, TN, 1992), page 446. Repository

Link Here for Regimental Histories of Tennessee Units During the War of 1812

The Southy Sanders Family of Grundy Co.Tennessee
Submitted By Alma E Dailey-Harings
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Southy Sanders was born between the years of 1774-1778 in Craven County, NC, and died before 1860 in Grundy TN. Much of the history to be discussed here in relation to Southy Sanders was revealed in the Revolutionary War pension files of his paternal uncle, Solomon Sanders of North Carolina. This file includes affidavits and documents dating from the late 1700Õs to the middle 1850's. Also included therein are the documents relating to his widowÕs pension application. From these records many facts are available to the historian in reconstructing the movements of this Sanders family. Sworn testimonies given by Solomon Sanders, his wife Mary, his nephews Southey and his brother, Thomas Sanders Sr. are found within this file along with many others testimonies that provide us with an important timeline of events in the lives of the Sanders Clan.

In the case of Solomon, a life that began in Craven County, North Carolina, in the year 1740, and ended in Franklin County, Tennessee, (now Grundy) on the twenty-ninth day of November, 1837.

Also found in this file are references to Solomon Sanders returning to Jones County, North Carolina from his home in Kentucky in 1792. His brother had died Jones County NC (previously Craven) leaving a widow and two sons (Southy and Thomas Sanders, Sr.). Solomon brought his brothers widow and two sons back to Kentucky where they all lived until shortly after the turn of the 19th century. Between 1802-1807, the Sanders Clan migrated to the area known as present day Grundy County Tennessee where they all settled and ultimately raised their families.

Even though all of these facts are spelled out within the documents of SolomonÕsÕ pension file, the names of Southies (and ThomasÕ) parents were never given. Therefore, their identities technically remain a mystery as of this writing.

Southy Sanders served in the military during the War of 1812 as well as the Creek War & New Orleans Campaign in 1812-1815. More details about his military service as well as his descendants can be found online by visiting his webpage at:

Southy Sanders married Nancy about 1813. It is believed that Nancy was born in Maryland abt 1794.

In 1820 Southy Sanders was enumerated in the census of Franklin County, Tennessee. He was listed as twenty-six to forty-five years of age. Living with him were two children, a boy and a girl, under the age of ten. There was also a female, age sixteen to twenty-six, in his household who was the right age to be his wife Nancy. The families of Thomas and Jacob Sanders lived on either side of him.

In 1830 Suddy Sanders was again the head of the household in Franklin County, Tennessee, living with his wife and six children, four sons and two daughters. Suddy was incorrectly listed as thirty to forty (he would have been at least fifty-two) and his wife was incorrectly listed as twenty to thirty. If she were the same wife that he had in 1850, she would have been thirty-six years of age in 1830. Living just a few households from them in 1830 was Solomon Sanders, who was listed as ninety to one hundred years of age.

In 1840 the Sanders family lived in Coffee County. Suddy was incorrectly listed as fifty to sixty (he would have been at least sixty-two) and Nancy was correctly listed as forty to fifty. There are two males in the household aged fifteen to twenty who are not compatible with the known family data and remain unidentified. Otherwise, the numbers, ages, and sex of the children fit with the known family information.


Southey Sanders died in Grundy County Tennessee bef 1860. His wife Nancy was listed in the 1860 Grundy Co TN census as a widow. She died there in May of 1860 of typhus fever at the age of 65.


Children from this marriage were:
Elizabeth
Thomas Jr
William M.
Jacob B. Jr
Caroline
Sarah
Mary Emeline
Delila (Triplet)
George Washington (Triplet)
Telitha (Triplet)


From the Franklin County Tennessee 1834 Court Minutes

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that Nancy Sanders, wife of Suddy Sanders, had at one birth on the fourth day of July 1834 three children which are now alive, to wit: George Washington Sanders, Delila Sanders, and Telitha Sanders. Whereupon it is ordered by the Court that the said Suddy Sanders, the father of said children, receive a certificate thereof.




Selected Statements From the Revolutionary War Pension File of Solomon Sanders:


 Mary Sanders who is applying for a Widows Pension  On  16 Dec 1852 Grundy County Tennessee:

Mary Sanders, aged 83, states her husband, pensioner Solomon SANDERS died 29 Nov. 1837. They were married May 1791 in Powell’s Valley in what is now Campbell County, Tennessee, at the home of James ALLY by William GIPSON. Mary removed from Powell’s Valley to Kentucky and from there to Grundy County, where she has lived for 45 years, and where her husband died. She states she has employed two agents to file her application but was never granted a pension, so now applies again. She appoints Taze NEWMAN her attorney in the matter.


Deposition of Thomas Sanders, 16 Dec 1852 for his Aunt Mary Sanders:

Thomas SANDERS aged 62 states he knew Solomon and Mary SANDERS from his earliest recollection. This was in the state of Kentucky. Thomas moved with his brother from the state of North Carolina to Kentucky when Thomas was “so young that he could not walk and keep up with the wagons.” Solomon and Mary SANDERS were at that time already married and living in Kentucky. Mary continues to reside on the place settled by Solomon.

Deposition of Southey Sanders 16 Dec 1852 for his Aunt Mary Sanders
 Luthey (?) [sic Southey] SANDERS aged 74 states he has known Solomon and Mary SANDERS since he was a boy. His mother was a widow living in Craven County, N.C., when his uncle Solomon came to where his mother lived and moved them to Kentucky where his own family lived. “And three for the first time he saw his aunt Mary SANDERS” This was in 1792. At that time he was told by his uncle that they had been married in Powell’s Valley some time prior to Solomon’s journey to North Carolina. He further stated he lived with Solomon and Mary SANDERS for several years in Kentucky. He declares that nearly 50 years ago they all, his mother and Solomon SANDERS and his family moved to what is now Grundy County.

Source:
Revolutionary War Pension File of Solomon Sanders
Source Text: Hard Copy on file

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    What is Known About The Father of Southey & Thomas Sanders Sr

    What is Known About The Mother of Southey & Thomas Sanders Sr

    What is Known About Solomon Sanders-Paternal Uncle to Southey & Thomas Sanders Sr

     
    Source:
    Sanders Family Article/ Middle TN Journal of Genealogy
    Quality: Primary
    Source Text: Hard Copy on File
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    Southy Sanders Deposition Pg 1 of 3
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    Southy Sanders Depositoin Pg 2 of 3
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    Southy Sanders Depositon (Pg 3 of 3)

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