William T. SANDERS b. 1849 IL. Henry SANDERS b. 1851 IL. Alfred George SANDERS b.1854 Mo. Mary SANDERS b. 1857 Mo.
Parents: _____SANDERS Melinda (HUSSEY) SANDERS b.1817 Ky. Melinda's mother Elizabeth (Betsy) HUSSEY b.1787 Ky. ------- SANDERS family said to have been of (Penn. ) Dutch descent. Also said to have gone west to Ky. and IL. after the War of 1812, from the state of Virginia.
____SANDERS was said to have died during the Civil War. Sometime after the C.W. Melinda and her mother, Betsy HUSSEY, took the four children to Vernon Co. Mo. where Melinda bought a horse/mule farm in Coal Twnshp, Vernon Co. They were found on the 1870 census for Deerfield Twnshp, Vernon Co., Mo. Have copy of Melinda's land ownership deed witnessed 1875.
Alfred George SANDERS, along with his brother Henry, left their mother Melinda at her home in Vernon Co.Mo.(In the spring of 1876) They headed west for the Colorado gold fields. They stopped off in Stafford Co. Ks. There Alfred met Margaret Jane (GIBSON) MCKINNEY, a young widow with a five year old son, Charles. They promptly got married (at Great bend Ks.) Henry headed on to Colorado and was never heard from, thereafter.The next spring of 1877, the young couple loaded up a covered wagon and traveled back to Vernon Co.Mo.On April 29'th 1877 Hiram Ripley SANDERS was born on his Grandmother's farm.When Hiram was three months old,the young couple loaded up the wagon and headed back to Ks. Just outside old Fort Scott, Ks. the wagon dropped in a hole in the trail and the baby was thrown out of his mothers arms, and the wagon ran over his left arm and crushed it.In nearby Fort Scott, an old ex-army doctor cut off his arm.( In the C.W. days and for years after, the surgeons would cut off a damaged limb with no thought of trying to save it.)
Alfred George SANDERS b. 1854 Mo. d. 25 Dec. 1925 Hardtner, Ks. md. Margaret Jane GIBSON McKINNEY 1875 Great Bend, Ks. Bur. Hazelton Ks
Margaret Jane GIBSON b. 5 Jan., 1854 Bedford, Ia. d. 5 Nov., 1945, Hazelton, Ks. bur. Hazelton, Ks.
md. 1'st Charles Frank McKINNEY 3 July, 1869 in Independence, Mo. He died in 1873.
One child: Charles Newton McKINNEY b.8 Jan. 1871 Newton, Ks. d. 20 March 1947
Margaret Jane and Alfred SANDERS children:
Hiram Ripley SANDERS (Harm) b. 29 April 1877 in Vernon Co. Mo. He md. Josephine MARTIN (Josie) in 1907. Josie died 4 July 1908 and is buried at Kiowa Ks. They had one child: Frank Joseph SANDERS b. 29 June 1908
Hiram md. Mary Lavina ODELL 18 Feb. 1916 at Enid, Ok. He died 17 Dec. 1957 at Corning,Ca.
Joseph Henry SANDERS b. 31 July 1879 md. Bessie Florence Martin (Josie's sister)He died 28 July 1948
Cora Belle SANDERS b. 8 Nov. 1881 md. Scott CIRCLE Mar. 1899 d. 11 Nov. 1948
Margaret Mae (Maggie) SANDERS b.18?? md. Lloyd LANDRETH 21 Dec. 1904 She died 1950
Daisy Ellen SANDERS b. 12 Jan. 1886 md.Calvin KOONTZ 28 Sept. 1904 She died 23 April 1989
Joseph, Cora, Maggie, and Daisy were all born in Stafford Co. Ks.
The HUSSEY family is said to have come from the Tn. Pioneers. Betsy HUSSEY and her husband had their three children in Ky., then pioneered in Hardin Co. IL.( ca. 1825)
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