Ancestry of William Frank Sanders Family

• Elias Plummer Sanders (Sr.) (See notes on Elias Sanders ancestry)
  ELIAS SANDERS was born abt. 1775, possibly in North Carolina, and died 1865 in Hart County Georgia. He married MARY CARTER in 1795. Mary was the daughter of Thomas Carter. She was born 1775 and died abt. 1850-1860. They are both buried in Hart County. Elias Plummer was a full blooded Cherokee Indian and was adopted by a Sanders family. In 1908 he owned 250 acres of land between Hart and Franklin Counties.
  Children of Elias and Mary were:
  
  • Calvin Plummer Sanders (abt. 1812-?) (Sarah Miller)
  • Thomas "Kit" Sanders (abt. 1808-?) (Isabella Trotman)
  • Jonathan P. Sanders (abt. 1810-?) (Orpha Miller)
  • Samuel B. Sanders (6/22/1808-?) (Annie Skelton)
  • Patience Sanders (1/11/1818-?) (John W. Smith; Joseph Hightower Vickerey)
  • Lewis Manley Sanders (abt. 1816-?) (Prudence Miller)
  • Rachel Sanders (abt. 1820-?) (Joel H. Dyar)
  • Mary Sanders (abt. 1800-?) (James A. Vickery)
  • Elias Sanders (Jr.) (abt. 1809-?)
    married Julia Vickery (b. abt. 1800)
    • Samuel Sanders (abt. 1836-?)
    • James Harrison Sanders (abt. 1838-?) (Mary Cornelia Powell)
    • Thomas Sanders (7/4/1853-2/15/1892)
    • Monroe Sanders (abt. 1844-?)
    • Nathan Sanders (abt. 1846-?)
    • Franklin Sanders (8/1840-5/1/1908)
      married to Alpha Evans (7/13/1847-4/14/1924)
      Company D, 37^th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, C.S.A. -wounded in leg in Civil War
      buried in Bowman Cemetery (Bowman, Georgia)
      • Henry Sanders (aft. 1865) (Janie Burden)
      • Gordon Sanders (aft. 1865) (Stella)
      • Lee Sanders (aft. 1865) (Mary M.)
      • Mamie Sanders (aft. 1865) (Herbert Fambrough)
      • Beulah Sanders (aft. 1865) (Crawford, Nixon, Childs)
      • Bertha Sanders (aft. 1865) (Ty Crawford)
      • Betty Sanders (aft. 1865) (Phillip Sanders)
      • Joe Sanders (aft. 1865) (Nettie Cheek)
      • William Marion "Pa Billy" Sanders (10/28/1865-6/18/1936)
        ordained Congregational minister (Pastor at Liberty Church 1916-1920)
        married on 1/5/1868 to Ida Jane Burden (10/16/1868-2/24/1941)
            daughter of Johnson Berry Burden and Martha R. Rousey
        buried at Liberty Congregational Church, Hart County, Georgia
        Lived on a farm in Bowman, Georgia [farmed for a living and preached for the glory of God]
        • Infant (5/31/1889)
        • Leonard Garland Sanders (7/15/1890-9/21/1973)
          married to Essie Elizabeth Fleming (9/28/1889-9/11/1968)
          • Cecil Alpha, Eva Mae, Ralph Augustus, Woodrow Wilson, Charles Thomas, Lena Avonelle, Joel Leonard, Marshal Webster, Sarah Louise
        • Clovis H Sanders (5/13/1893-1965) (Ada Goss Winn 1897-1980)
        • Ruby Vester Sanders (6/21/1896-?) (Jessie Stalnaker; Ora Fleming)
        • Inez Sanders (11/29/1904-?) (Cliford Warren, Emmet Wallace, John Graham)
        • Lamar Oran Sanders (8/7/1902-?)(Odelia Adams)
        • Mack Irwin Sanders (5/7/1889-?) (Lucille Maxwell)
        • Ruth Naomi Sanders (7/19/1911-2/4/1999)
          married to Harold McGarity (1912-1947)
          • Van, Phyllis, Linda, David
        • William Frank Sanders (Sr.) (7/24/1907-2/14/1970)
          married to Mae Love Turner (1/23/1913-3/21/1992)
          •       mother: Laura Ruth Wilson
          •       grandmother: Sophrona Wilkins
          • William Frank Sanders (Jr.) (Miriam)
            • Matt
          • Brenda Ruth Sanders    [Photo]
            married first to Edgar Foster Sanders (10/21/1939-5/28/2015)
            married second to Donald Alan Williams (10/26/1923-7/13/2013)
            married third to Robert Middour
            Born in Charlotte, NC
            • Laurie Ruth Sanders (Harold Craig Hamrick, divorced)
              • Jillian Blair Hamrick
              • Megan Brooke Hamrick
              • Carson Blaine Hamrick
            • John Wesley Sanders
            • David Edgar Sanders    [Photo]
              married to Kari Ann Vogt (divorced),
                   daughter of Larry Gene Vogt and Marion Louise Seay Vogt
              Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy (Retired)
              • Christopher David Sanders

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