John T. Sanders was my uncle. I have no pictures of him and know very little about him, except that my father said he liked to play a fiddle and my older sister remembers him as a large man with an outgoing personality. His wife, the formerly Lula Skipper, died in 1901, after she and John had been married eleven years. They were the parents of three children: Carl, Levi (named after Levi Lindsey Sanders), and Modest (Levi's twin). I remember Levi (or uncle Lee as we called him) coming to visit my father and mother once when I was a small child. This must have been about 1951 and Lee showed us the automatic transmission in his car-quite a novelty at the time. --Gary Sanders
From the Athens Daily Review, Athens, Henderson County, Texas, Thursday, May 12, 1938, p. 1:
JOHN T. SANDERS DIES; BURIAL TO BE ON FRIDAY
John T. Sanders, 76, resident of the Murchison community for the past sixty-one years, died sometime Wednesday night. the well known and highly respected citizen of Murchison was found dead in his bed at 6:00 o'clock Thursday morning. Deceased was the father of Lee Sanders of Athens and a brother of A. W. Sanders, Athens merchant.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the First Baptist Church of Murchison. Rev. T. H. Irwin of Tyler and Rev. D. R. Carlidge of Athens, both close friends of the deceased, will be asked to conduct the services. Interment will be in the Red Hill cemetery.
Pall bearers named were: Eugene Webb, Delmas Sanders, Gurley Sanders, Millard Sanders, ST (rest of line illegible).
Honorary pall bearers will be: Oran Scott, Ollie Wells, B. K. Barnes, Walter Lewis, Percy Lewis, Clark Turner, Early Taylor, Will Dyer, John Dyer, Clyde Simmons and Joe Harper.
John Taylor Sanders was born July 30, 1872, near Stephenville in Erath county, but was brought to Henderson county in 1876 by his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Jess Sanders who are buried in the Red Hill cemetery. Mrs. John Sanders, the former Miss Lula Skipper, died at Murchison in 1901 and lies buried in the Red Hill cemetery.
Mr. Sanders is survived by two sons, Lee Sanders of Athens and Carl Sanders of Corsicana and one daughter, Mrs. Modest Taylor of Murchison. Two brothers, A. W. Sanders, Athens, and J. J. Sanders, Murchison and one sister, Mrs. Frank Carroll, Athens.
From the Athens Daily Review, Athens, Henderson County, Texas, Thursday, May 12, 1938, p. 1:
JOHN T. SANDERS DIES; BURIAL TO BE ON FRIDAY
John T. Sanders, 76, resident of the Murchison community for the past sixty-one years, died sometime Wednesday night. the well known and highly respected citizen of Murchison was found dead in his bed at 6:00 o'clock Thursday morning. Deceased was the father of Lee Sanders of Athens and a brother of A. W. Sanders, Athens merchant.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the First Baptist Church of Murchison. Rev. T. H. Irwin of Tyler and Rev. D. R. Carlidge of Athens, both close friends of the deceased, will be asked to conduct the services. Interment will be in the Red Hill cemetery.
Pall bearers named were: Eugene Webb, Delmas Sanders, Gurley Sanders, Millard Sanders, ST (rest of line illegible).
Honorary pall bearers will be: Oran Scott, Ollie Wells, B. K. Barnes, Walter Lewis, Percy Lewis, Clark Turner, Early Taylor, Will Dyer, John Dyer, Clyde Simmons and Joe Harper.
John Taylor Sanders was born July 30, 1872, near Stephenville in Erath county, but was brought to Henderson county in 1876 by his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Jess Sanders who are buried in the Red Hill cemetery. Mrs. John Sanders, the former Miss Lula Skipper, died at Murchison in 1901 and lies buried in the Red Hill cemetery.
Mr. Sanders is survived by two sons, Lee Sanders of Athens and Carl Sanders of Corsicana and one daughter, Mrs. Modest Taylor of Murchison. Two brothers, A. W. Sanders, Athens, and J. J. Sanders, Murchison and one sister, Mrs. Frank Carroll, Athens.
John T. Sanders was my uncle. I have no pictures of him and know very little about him, except that my father said he liked to play a fiddle and my older sister remembers him as a large man with an outgoing personality. His wife, the formerly Lula Skipper, died in 1901, after she and John had been married eleven years. They were the parents of three children: Carl, Levi (named after Levi Lindsey Sanders), and Modest (Levi's twin). I remember Levi (or uncle Lee as we called him) coming to visit my father and mother once when I was a small child. This must have been about 1951 and Lee showed us the automatic transmission in his car-quite a novelty at the time. --Gary Sanders
From the Athens Daily Review, Athens, Henderson County, Texas, Thursday, May 12, 1938, p. 1:
JOHN T. SANDERS DIES; BURIAL TO BE ON FRIDAY
John T. Sanders, 76, resident of the Murchison community for the past sixty-one years, died sometime Wednesday night. the well known and highly respected citizen of Murchison was found dead in his bed at 6:00 o'clock Thursday morning. Deceased was the father of Lee Sanders of Athens and a brother of A. W. Sanders, Athens merchant.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the First Baptist Church of Murchison. Rev. T. H. Irwin of Tyler and Rev. D. R. Carlidge of Athens, both close friends of the deceased, will be asked to conduct the services. Interment will be in the Red Hill cemetery.
Pall bearers named were: Eugene Webb, Delmas Sanders, Gurley Sanders, Millard Sanders, ST (rest of line illegible).
Honorary pall bearers will be: Oran Scott, Ollie Wells, B. K. Barnes, Walter Lewis, Percy Lewis, Clark Turner, Early Taylor, Will Dyer, John Dyer, Clyde Simmons and Joe Harper.
John Taylor Sanders was born July 30, 1872, near Stephenville in Erath county, but was brought to Henderson county in 1876 by his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Jess Sanders who are buried in the Red Hill cemetery. Mrs. John Sanders, the former Miss Lula Skipper, died at Murchison in 1901 and lies buried in the Red Hill cemetery.
Mr. Sanders is survived by two sons, Lee Sanders of Athens and Carl Sanders of Corsicana and one daughter, Mrs. Modest Taylor of Murchison. Two brothers, A. W. Sanders, Athens, and J. J. Sanders, Murchison and one sister, Mrs. Frank Carroll, Athens.
From the Athens Daily Review, Athens, Henderson County, Texas, Thursday, May 12, 1938, p. 1:
JOHN T. SANDERS DIES; BURIAL TO BE ON FRIDAY
John T. Sanders, 76, resident of the Murchison community for the past sixty-one years, died sometime Wednesday night. the well known and highly respected citizen of Murchison was found dead in his bed at 6:00 o'clock Thursday morning. Deceased was the father of Lee Sanders of Athens and a brother of A. W. Sanders, Athens merchant.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the First Baptist Church of Murchison. Rev. T. H. Irwin of Tyler and Rev. D. R. Carlidge of Athens, both close friends of the deceased, will be asked to conduct the services. Interment will be in the Red Hill cemetery.
Pall bearers named were: Eugene Webb, Delmas Sanders, Gurley Sanders, Millard Sanders, ST (rest of line illegible).
Honorary pall bearers will be: Oran Scott, Ollie Wells, B. K. Barnes, Walter Lewis, Percy Lewis, Clark Turner, Early Taylor, Will Dyer, John Dyer, Clyde Simmons and Joe Harper.
John Taylor Sanders was born July 30, 1872, near Stephenville in Erath county, but was brought to Henderson county in 1876 by his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Jess Sanders who are buried in the Red Hill cemetery. Mrs. John Sanders, the former Miss Lula Skipper, died at Murchison in 1901 and lies buried in the Red Hill cemetery.
Mr. Sanders is survived by two sons, Lee Sanders of Athens and Carl Sanders of Corsicana and one daughter, Mrs. Modest Taylor of Murchison. Two brothers, A. W. Sanders, Athens, and J. J. Sanders, Murchison and one sister, Mrs. Frank Carroll, Athens.
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