| What is Known about the Mother of Southey & Thomas Sanders Sr |
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What is Known About Mrs. Sanders
My GGGG Grandmother
Notes by Alma Harings
* I know that she was the mother of (my ggg grandfather) Thomas Sanders, Sr, who was born in Jones County (formally Craven Co) North Carolina
in 1790. She was also the mother of Southey (aka Suddy) Sanders who was born in Craven County NC (later known as Jones Co)
A female between 70-80 yrs of age was found living in the Franklin Co TN household of Thomas Sanders Sr. in 1830. It is highly possible that this
was his mother. She is not found in the census record for 1840 and is determined to have passed sometime after 1830.
Franklin County TN later becomes known as Grundy County TN where both of her known sons live out the remainder of their lives . (Thomas
Sanders. Sr. dies in 1855 and Southey Sanders before 1860)
* I know that she was the wife of // Mr. Sanders of Craven Co NC whose given name is also currently unknown. He died between 1790-1792 leaving
his wife alone in NC with (at least) two sons, Southey and Thomas Sanders Sr.
*I know that she was the sister-in-law of <a href= "http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=weets44&id =I492">Solomon
Sanders</a> who came to NC sometime after his brothers death to take his widowed sister in law and her two orphaned boys back to live with his
family in KY. Solomon made the trip from KY to NC in 1792 (see deposition of Joshua Phipps below for more details)
* Her husband (and my gggg grandfather) was the brother of the Rev War Soldier, Solomon Sanders who was born in Craven Co NC in 1740.
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*Deposition of Joshua Phipps
Statement given under oath in Grundy Co TN Sept 1893
Document was taken from and is a part of the Revolutionary War Pension File
of Solomon Sanders (1740-1837) (filed in Franklin Co TN)
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Exhibit A
State of Tennessee!
Grundy County TN
Be it known that on this day/ of September A.D., eighteen hundred and fifty three personally/appeared before the Subscriber an Acting
Justice of the Peace in/and for said County, Joshua Phipps, aged eighty three/years just and being first duly sworn according to Law doth/on his oath
makes the following affidavit. That he was well/acquainted with Solomon Sanders who was a Revolutionary/Pensioner of the United States, that he
first knew him in North/Carolina, and that he moved to Powells Valley, Tennessee but what was then a part of North Carolina, in Seventeen
hundred/and ninety, and affiant went with him when he moved/and assisted him on the road and he well remembers that/the next Spring he married
Mary Sanders, who now lives in this Said County, this was the next year after they moved to Powells Valley, which was in the year Seventeen-hundred
and ninety/one,
***** affiant would further declare that he stayed in Seventeen/Ninety two with the wife of Solomon Sanders, Mary Sanders,/who now lives a
neighbor to affiant, while he went back to/North Carolina after his brothers' wife, the mother of Southey/and Thomas Sanders who now lives in this
Said County/that he was at the marriage of Solomon and Mary Sanders/above stated and saw them married and is confident it was/in the year herein
above stated- say seventeen hundred and / Ninety one. He remembers that it was some time before / the Indians took Curtis Station in what is now
Knox County / Tennessee- for Solomon Sanders above stated had then returned from North Carolina after he had married and the Indians and Curtis
Station was taken in, he thinks, 1793. Affiant then further declares that he has no interest in the applications of Mary Sanders for a pension in any
way either personally or otherwise.
Joshua Phipps
Sworn and subscribed before me an acting justice of the peace in and for said county and I would hereby certify that Joshua Phipps who makes the
foregoing affidavit is a man in whom full faith and credit may be placed and is an old and patriotic citizen of said County. In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand this day of September A.D. 1853.
Jonathan Tipton, Justice of the Peace for Grundy Co., Tennessee
Notes Source: Revolutionary War Pension File of Solomon Sanders
Notes Source: 1830 Census Franklin TN (Sanders)
Notes Source: Alma E Dailey-Harings
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