Sanders, William A (b. 24 JAN 1834, d. 26 MAR 1925)

Note: William Anderson SANDERS, son of Jonathan Preston Sanders and Orpha Miller, b. January 24, 1834 in Elbert Co, GA and died March 26, 1925 Elbert Co, GA. Bur. March 27, 1925 in Milltown Bapt Ch Cem, Hart Co, GA. He married(1) Elizabeth Ann Caroline CARTER September 15, 1859 in Hart Co, GA by Rev James T W Vernon. She was born June 19, 1837 in Franklin Co, GA and died February 13, 1891 in Hart Co, GA, Burial : Milltown Bapt Ch Cem, Hart Co, GA

Children of William Anderson SANDERS and Elizabeth Ann Caroline CARTER:
Lucy Ella SANDERS was born October 12, 1862.
Fannie Angeline SANDERS was born August 7, 1860 and died July 15, 1891.
Sarah Caroline "Sallie" SANDERS was born September 25, 1865 and died June 28, 1929.
Albert Perry SANDERS was born March 2, 1868 d. 16 Dec 1895
Emma Alicia SANDERS was born July 15, 1870 and died April 12, 1912.
Florence Newton SANDERS was born July 31, 1873 d. 1941 TN
Mourning Louisa "Lou" SANDERS was born December 20, 1875 d. 29 Jan 1943 Macon, GA
John Harrison Sanders b. 12 Jun 1878

1910 US Census Moss, Elbert Co., GA #23
W. A. Sanders head age 76 2nd marriage married 16 years b. GA
Francis wife age 60 1st marriage married 16 years b. GA (no children)
George Noble age 16 black servant

1920 US Census Moss, Elbert Co., GA family #75
William A. Sanders Head age 85
Francis wife age 70
Florence Vaughter male age 68 boarder
Paul Lackey age 15 helper

Note: Anne is mentioned several times in her father's (Thomas Sanderson) will in 1778.

A Joseph Poyner of Currituck, NC also had a wife named Ann.

Note: Currituck County Wills

Thomas Sanderson
Jan. 30, 1778; May 28, 1778
Currituck Co. Will Book 1, pp. 136-140

In the name of God Amen, I THOS. SANDERSON of Currituck County in the state of North Carrolina being weak in body but sound and disposing mind and memery do make this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following.

Imprimis: I give and recommend my soul to Almighty God and as touching such wourldly estate whare with it hath pleased God to bless me with in life I give devise and dispose of in the following manner and form,

I give and bequeath to my Son THOMAS SANDERSON a negro woman called Generous to him and heirs forever-----------

Item: I give to my Grand Daughter MARY SANDERSON one negro girl called Darkist to her and her heirs.

Item: I give to my Son THOMAS SANDERSON all the children an increas of a negro woman which he hath in his possession called Generous to him and his heirs.

Item: I give to my grandson THO. SANDERSON one negro boy cal Juperter to him and his heirs.

Item: I give to my Grandson THOMAS SANDERSON Son of THOMAS, a peace or percel of land known by the name of Dews Quarter as also twenty five acres of land on the main that ??? most convenient for timber to the afsd. Dews Quarter as also one grey mare which he hath now in possession to him and his heirs forever.

Item: I give to my Son THOMAS SANDERSON the plentation wheron he now lives and the remainder of my land adjoining thereto to him and his heirs forever.

Item: I gis and bequeath to my Son JESSE SANDERSON the plantation whereon I now live with the out land thereto belong- ing as it lays marked out by devision line as also an island called Grandys Island to him and his heirs for ever.

Item: I give and bequeth to my Son JESSE SANDERSON an island called the Narrows Island as also twenty five acres of land lying to the westward of the manner plentation lands and adjoining thereto to him and his heirs forever

Item: I give to my Son JESSE SANDERSON my plantation on the ridge with the lands therto belonging lying between BENJAMIN POYNER and RICH. SANDERSON to him and his heirs forever.

Item: I give to my Son JESSE SANDERSON one negro woman called Tariken one negro man called Cuise one negro man called Charls one negro woman called Sarah one negro man Quash one negro lad called Menus one negro woman called Nell one negro boy called Icamus one negro woman called Bass one negro child called Juath to him the said JESSE and his heirs forever.

Item: I gis to my Grandson THOMAS SANDERSON Son of LEMUEL my plantation whereon JESSE SANDERSON now lives with the out lands and marshes thereto belonging as it lays marked out by devision lines, as also three cows and calves and three ewes and lambs to him and his heirs forever.

Item: I give to my Son JOHN SANDERSON my plantation on the Ridge whareon he formely lived with the lands thereto belonging as they lay marked off as also the stock of cattel thereto belonging to him and his heirs forever.

Item: I give to my Son JOHN SANDERSON one negro man called Jonas one negro woman called Dinah and all her children as also two stears on the Narrows Island also one brown mare and one walnut desk to him and his heirs forever.

Item: I give to my Son JESSE SANDERSON fifty acres of land lying on the banks adjoining NATHEN POYNER bank land to him the said JESSE and his heirs forever.

Item: I give to my Grandson THOMAS SANDERSON Son of LEMUEL, one negro man called Cass one negro woman called Juda one negro boy called Sam one negro boy called Caso one negro boy called Tom and one negro man called Tom to him and his heirs forever.

Item: I give to my Daughter ANNE POYNER one negro woman called Tab and her two children one negro girl called Sal one large Black mar and her colt to her and her heirs

Item: I give to my Grand Daughter NANNY POYNER Daughter of NATHEN one negro girl called Finiah to her and her heirs

Item: I give to my Daughter MARY POYNER the plantation wheron she now lives with the out lands thereto belonging as it lays marked off one small walnut desk one negro woman called Pug and her four children and one sorrill mare with a blase face to her and her heirs forever.

Item: I give to my Grand Daughter ANNE POYNER Daughter of BENJAMIN one negro girl called Jemimah to her and her heirs

Item: I give to my Daughter JULIA BARNTT(sic) one cow and calf and two sheep to her and her heirs.

Item: I give to my Grand Daughter ANN BARNETT one negro girl called Hannah to her and her heirs.

Item: I give to my Grand Son THOMAS BARNETT one negro boy called Pompy to him and his heirs

Item: I give to my Grandson LEMUEL SANDERSON the plantation whereon my Son LEMUEL formly lived and the woodland thereto belonging as it lays marked out also one negro lad called Dick to him and his heirs forever.

Item: I give to my Grand Son THOMAS SANDERSON Son of LEMUEL my plantation on the Ridge whereon WILLIAM MITCHEL formly lived with the out land thereto belonging as it lays marked off to him and his heirs

Item: I give to my Daughter ANNE POYNER one hundred acres of land lying between ROBERT GIPSON and SARAH GIPSONS to her and her heirs forever.

Item: It is my will and desire that my old negro woman Hannah have the liberty of gowing to which of my children she thinks proper.

Item: I give to my Son JESSE SANDERSON all my cattle belonging to the manner plantation as also all my hogs and all my sheep excepting such as I have already hereto for given to said JESSE and his heirs forever

Item: I give to my Grand Son THOMAS SANDERSON the Son of LEMUEL one small mehogany desk one feather bed and furniture to him and his heirs.

Item: I give to CALEB SANDERSON one feather bed provided he should ever return to injoy it.

Item: I give to my Son JESSE SANDERSON one large mehogany desk and also all the rest and residue of my house- hold furniture of what kind soever to him and his heirs.

Item: I give to my Son JESSE SANDERSON all my cooper tools and all my black smiths tools to him and his heirs

Item: I give to my Son JOHN SANDERSON eight pounds in ??? of one half of smith tools

Item: I give to my Son JESSE SANDERSON one sorrell mare and one yearling ditto to him and his heirs.

Item: I give and bequeth to my son JESSE SANDERSON all the rest and residue of my estate of what kind soever both within and without real or personal which hath not been before mentioned to him the sd. JESSE SANDERSON and his heirs forever.

Lastly I do herby nominate constitute appoint my Son JESSE SANDERSON to be whole, sole executor of this my Last Will and Testament hereby revoaking and disallowing all former will or wills hereto for by me made ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament in witness whareof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 30th day of January Anno Dom. 1778

THOMAS SANDERSON

Signed sealed published and declared
by the testator to be his last will and
testament in the presents of

JOSEPH ENNALLS

WILLIAM DOWDY

DAVID JONES
signum

Recorded and examined this 28th day of May 1778

Note: An entry on Ancestry.com gives Serena's parents as Daniel Sandlin and Jane (Bray) Sandlin.
Birth and death dates are taken from that entry.

Event: Type: Fact 1
Date: 1923
Place: Buried Hopewell cem., Ripley Co., IN

Note: In 1896, Mary Grigsby Vawter wrote to Sarah. (My dear and only Aunt) She mentions Mollie, a cousin Ben and asks where is McCuin.

Note: 1910 US Census Prairie, Tipton Co., IN
Joseph W. Scales (sr) age 61
Denicelle Scales age 25 dau
Vina Scales age 20 dau
Joseph W. Scales (jr) age 24 son

1920 US Census Prairie, Tipton Co., IN
Joseph W. Scales age 72 b. NC widow owns home
Drusie Scales age 36
Joseph Scales age 35

Note: Marriage record Stokes Co. NC, 12 Oct 1835 Thomas M. Scales to Elisa Vawter. Bondsmen Ebenezer W. Ward and Willie Ward. They migrated to IN ca 1854 where brother, James Madison Vawter, located. Thomas M. Scales is shown as witness to the will of James in Tipton Co., IN in 1872.

1850 Stokes Co. NC census:
Thomas M Scales....43....NC
Eliza Scales....30....NC
Sarah Scales....13.....NC
John R Scales....11....NC
Elizabeth Scales...8....NC
Samuel Scales....6....NC
Joseph Scales....3....NC
Eliza C Scales....1....NC

1860 US Census Prairie, Tipton Co., IN
Thomas Scoles (Scales).......... age 53......... NC
Eliza Scoles .............age 55............. NC
John Scoles.......... age 20............. NC
Elizabeth Scoles.......... age 18.......... NC
J. Samuel M. Scoles......... age 16 ......... NC
Joseph W. Scoles.......... age 12............. NC
Martha Scoles........... age 6......... IN

1870 Tipton, IN census: (same page as James Madison Vawter)
Thomas M Scales....63....NC
Eliza Scales....63 ?.....NC
Elizabeth Scales....27....NC
William Scales....24....NC
Martha Scales....16....IN

1880 US Census Prairie, Tipton Co., IN #286
Thomas M. Scales age 72 b. NC
William Scales age 32 son b. NC
Mary J. Scales age 25 dau in law b. IN
Family #287
David A Thatcher age 24
Martha Thatcher age 26 wife b. IN
Indiana Marriage Collection Bk5, page 199
Martha Scales to David A. Thatcher 22 Nov 1879 Tipton Co., IN

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Note: 1920 Harrison Tx Census:
Robert Colston 23 TX
Daisy Colston 19 TX boarder
Vesta S Vawter 72 TX mother (?) son Ed is next door

Note: Adopted child

Note: 1880 Shelby Township, Ripley, Indiana census: (page 47)
Emsley Shaddy….45…farmer…Ind. OH…Penn
Olive Shaddy….44….Ind. Ind. Ind.
6 children, including LAURA E SHADDY, age 5

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The pioneer Sharpes came to this country with the Scotch-Irish immigration
which began about 1698. By 1776 there were 400,000 in America. The 1790
census lists 217 Sharpe families in America with 36 in NC. Joseph Sharpe came
with his son, Thomas Sharpe, Sr. to Cecil Co., Md. before 1718. he settled at
Fair Hill, Cecil Co., MD. with Thomas who named his plantation "Sharpe's
Industry."
Thomas Sr. gave the land for Sharpe's Graveyeard and helped establish Rock
Creek Church nearby. He was a member of the Cecil Co. Committee of Safety.
Thomas Sharpe, Jr., son of Thomas Sr., served in the Revolutionary War at Kings
Mt.(see his record).

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Note: Source: Organization of the Rock Church, (Cecil County, MD)
Elders:
Thomas Sharp, Sr., Lived near Centre school house, was commissioner Jun 28th, 1720 , became elder, and died 1749.

His will dated January 9, 1747/8:
To my well beloved wife Isable one third of all my moveable estate at her own disposal forever..
Son Walter Sharp, twenty pounds
Son Thomas Sharp, sixty pounds
Son James Sharp, fourty pounds
Son-in-law John Smith, twenty pounds
Daughter Hanah, (?) thirty pounds
Son-in-law David Wherry, twenty pounds
Daughter Sarah, thirty pounds
Son Joseph Sharp, Fourty pounds when he comes to 21 years

His son, Thomas Sharpe, Jr, was the first to spell the name with an "e'.

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Note: 1850 Iredell North Carolina census:
C. J. Sharpe 45 NC
C A Sharpe 34 "
Horrit (?) A Sharpe 15 "
Sarah T Sharpe 13 "
Julia M Sharpe 11 "
Courtney A Sharpe 9 "
Calvin W Sharpe 7 "
William D Sharpe 5 "
James I Sharpe 4 "
Clayborn I A Sharpe 2 "

1860 Calhoun Alabama census:
C I Sharp 55 NC
C A 44 "
Calvin W 18 "
William 16 "
James 14 "
Augustus 12 " Claborn I. A. ?
Thomas 9 "
Laura E 6 "
Mary 8/12 Ala

1870 Calhoun Alabama census:
C I Sharp 65 NC
Cotney Sharp 54 "
Thomas Sharp 19 "
Mary Sharp 10 Ala
son James, 24, is living next door.

1880 Calhoun Alabama census:
Clabern I Sharp 75 NC
C A Sharp 64 "
Mary C Sharp 20 Ala