Kinfolks
By Evelyn Flood

Thomas Peter Sanders Story.

Many, many Northern Arkansas families are descended from
Capt. Thomas Peter Sanders.
Surnames as Dickey, Fowler, Dickens, Martin, Hale, Wright
Ramsey, Hall, Hammon, Shinn, Keys, Bolin, Kent, Criner, Hefley,
Lively, Hill,Davis, Greenhaw and McCutcheon are associated with the
Sanders family.

Peter was born in 1818 in Bedford County, Tennessee, son of
Peter Sanders and Marchial Tarbutton of North Carolina.
Peter married Mary Jane Moody , born 1818 in Bedford County, Tennessee,
about 1837 in either Illinois or Tennessee.

Peter was called Captain Sanders, having served in Fourth Missouri
Cavalry Confederate States of America, enlisting in May of 1861 in
Oregon County, Missouri.
His physical description states he had blue eyes, dark hair,
sandy complexion and was 6 feet tall.
The average height for Civil War Soldiers was about 5 feet 5 inches,
so Peter was tall for that period of time.

It is said he had extensive land holdings in Texas County, Missouri
which he lost or had to sell during the Civil War.

By 1869 his family moved to Marion County, Arkansas and then into
Newton County, AR.
The family is on the 1880 Newton County, Arkansas Census in Prairie
Township with son Samuel Newton Sanders, age 17, born Missouri.

My records show the following ten children:
1. MARY SANDERS born 1838 who married "
(1)Richard Douglass in 1855 in Texas County, Missouri and
had two Douglass children:
Peter and Dan.
Mary Sanders Douglas married (2) Richard Dickens.

2. NANCY SANDERS born 1839 in Illinois.
Nancy married JAMES "Buckety Jim" MARTIN in 1856 in Texas County, Missouri and they had the following children:
(i)Dialpha Josephine Martin
(ii)Jefferson Davis Martin
(iii)Susan C Martin
(iv)Francis J Martin
(v)Leatha Catherine Martin
(vi)Sarah A Martin
(vii) Ephriam Town Martin
(viii) Thomas P Martin
(ix)Elizabeth Martin and
(x)Bartholomew Martin .
Nancy Sanders Martin’s husband James was in the Civil War.
James Martin’s parents were William Martin and Leatha Hart from
Bedford County,Tennessee.

3. THOMAS PETER SANDERS JR.was born May 1844.
Thomas served in Co. E, Fourth Regiment Marmaduke’s Brigade (CSA).
He was wounded in the Civil War.
He married first to:
(1)Nancy A (maiden name unknown) and a daughter Sarah Sanders was born in 1871.
Thomas then married
(2) MARY MALISSA HALE in 1871 in Newton County, Arkansas.
I found a marriage for Sarah J Sanders to JOHN WRIGHT in Boone County,Arkansas (Index D-365)on 11 September 1892.

In the 1890s Thomas and Mary moved to Yell County, Arkansas near
Dardanelle.
Thomas and Mary Malissa Hale Sanders are on the 1900 Yell County, Arkansas Census with daughter Sarah J and son-in-law John Wright and Wright grandchildren:
Emma 7; Rockzi 5; Fannie 3 and Albert D Wright six months.

In 1909 a Tom Sanders, age 65, married Mrs. MARY M. MILLSAPS, age 43, in Newton County. Could this be Thomas Peter Sanders above?

4. SUSAN SANDERS, born April 1846 married SAMUEL THOMAS NUNN in 1856 in Wright Co. Missouri.
Samuel Nunn joined the Confederate Army in July 1863 .
Their children were:
Peter Horace; Margaret Jane; Thomas Rice; Elizabeth, William Jefferson;Marion Edgar and Ella Nunn.
Susan Sanders Nunn died in 1909 while visiting in Oklahoma.

5. JASPER SANDERS, born Mar 1847 served in Fourth Missouri
Cavalry in Burbridge Regiment during Civil War.
Jasper married :
(1) MARY JOSEPHINE RAMSEY in 1871 in Newton Co. AR.
Their children were:
(i)Charley Sanders 1872 who may have married EDNA SNOW;

(ii)James W Sanders 1873 who married LUQUILLA FOWLER and had children:
Josephine, Hattie and Earl Sanders.
J W Sanders, age 21 of Western Grove, married LOU FOWLER. age 17 on 13 October 1895 in Boone County, Arkansas.
Earl Sanders died 2/3/1988 in Santa Rosa, CA at home.
Watching Wheel of Fortune, in fact. He had even cooked his own breakfast that morning.

(iii)Jane Sanders born 1875

(iv) Mary Jennie Sanders born 1876 who married JAMES HALL

(v) Jasper Jr. Sanders born 1877 who married DELLA MARTIN and had
children:
Roxie, Hulan, Vadie and Bonnie Sanders.
They are on the Newton County, Arkansas 1910 Census in New Hope Township.

(vi)Thomas Peter Sanders born 1878

(vii)Walter A Sanders born 1879

(viii) Georgia E Sanders born 1883

(ix) Nancy C Sanders born 1884

(x) Grover C Sanders born 1887

(xi) William H Sanders born 1888 and

(xii)Hugh T Sanders born 1889.

Mary Josephine Ramsey Sanders died between 1889 and 1893.
Do not know where she is buried.

Jasper Sanders Sr. married:
(2)MARTHA HAMMON in 1893 in Newton County, Arkansas.
By 1900 there were two more children:
(xiii)Walcie Sanders born Dec 1896 and

(xiv)Otis B Sanders, born March 1899.

6. SARAH JANE SANDERS died as a young child.

7. ANGELINE SANDERS died as a young child.

8. LILLY ELIZABETH SANDERS, born 1853, married
THOMAS JEFFERSON SHINN in 1871 in Newton County, Arkansas.
Their children were: James, Clarence, Thomas J, Peter Sanders Shinn,
Earnest , Jennie, Pearl, Maude, Ozie, Claude and Clyde Shinn.
The Thomas J Shinn family was living on the 1910 Newton County,
Arkansas Census in Prairie Township.
Nephew George F Sanders, age 21 is living with the Shinn Family.

9. HARRY (W.R.)SANDERS born 1857 married SARAH L HILL in 1882
in Newton County, Arkansas.
There is a Sarah Sanders, widow, on the 1910 Newton County, Arkansas
census living in Prairie Township. Is this Sarah Hill Sanders?

10. MELISSA SANDERS died as a young child.

11. SAMUEL NEWTON SANDERS, born 1863 married CYNTHA J KEYS in
1885 in Newton County, Arkansas .
Cynthia was daughter of Elisha Cassel Keys and Margaret M Davis.
Their children were: Elisha Campbell Shinn, George Floyd, Viola,
Margaret Jane, Malissie, Thomas Peter and Claudia Sanders.

The family is on the 1910 Newton County, Arkansas Census in New Hope Township with children: Campbell 23; George F 21; Viola 18; Margaret 16; Malissie 8; Thomas 6 and Claudie Sanders , age 2

Son George F Sanders, age 25 of Western Grove married BEATRICE GRAY, age 19 of Western Grove, on 20 September 1914 in Boone County, Arkansas.
Samuel Newton Sanders died in 1919 and Cynthia Keys Sanders died in 1918,both at Atwood, Oklahoma.

Captain Thomas Peter Sanders died on 6 Nov 1882 at Cave Creek and
sleeps his Eternal rest in Old Dodson Cemetery, Newton County, Arkansas.
Do not have record of when Mary Jane Moody Sanders died and where she
is buried.
Mary Jane Moody Sanders was living with her daughter Nancy Sanders Martin on the 1900 Newton County, Arkansas Census in Polk Township, Visit 128-133. Mary Jane was born July 1818, age 82, widow, and had 11 children, with 7 living children at time of census.

Found several pieces of land that were in the Sanders Families in
Newton County, Arkansas.
So many people discount land records as not important in their
research. This is not true.
Homestead records many times give genealogy information.
You need all the numbers listed to send for the land records.

SANDERS, JASPER; Vol. AR2510.021
Land office Harrison, 10 March 1886, Doc.#4600, Misc. Doc #5035
Homestead Original; Part #1; NWNE, Section 22, Twp 16North,
Range 19 West,
Part #2: S NE, Section 22, Twp. 16 North, Range 19 West,
Part #3: NENW, Section 22, Twp 16 North, Range 19 West 160.000 acres.

SANDERS, JASPER N;
Vol. AR3155.157, Land Office, Harrison, 12 May 1905
Doc.#4922, Cash Entry; Part #1:
NENW, Section 13, Twp 16North, Range 19 West, 40.000 acres

SANDERS, NEWTON S:
Vol. AR3150.462. Land Office Harrison, 30 December 1905. Doc #16911. Misc. Doc #31534, Homestead Original; Part #1 S SW,
Section 8, Township 16North, Range 19 West
Part #2: N NE, Section 17, Twp. 16North, Range 19 West, 160.000 acres

SANDERS, THOMAS
Vol AR2560.371,
Land Office Harrison, 13 February 1891, Doc #7301,
Misc. Doc.#8527, Homestead Original; Part ##1: NWSE Section 13,
Twp. 13North, Range 23West,
Part #2: E SW, Section 13, Twp. 13North, Range 23 West, 120.000 acres

SANDERS, THOMAS E
Vol. AR2610.439, Land Office Harrison, 17 December 1894,
Doc #9904, Misc. Doc #20290, Homestead Original; Part #1
NWSW, Section 13, Twp. 13 North, Range 23 West
Part #2: E SE, Section 14, Twp 13 North, Range 23 West
Part #3: NENE, Sec. 23, Twp. 13 North, Range 23 West, 160.000 acres.

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