Sanderson, Corchran D. 1837 - 1911

SANDERSON, EATON

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Date: 1/1/2010 at 09:07:23

Death of C. D. Sanderson.

C. D. Sanderson, aged 73 years, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. O. Eaton, near Newton at 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon, January 23 (1911). His disease was dropsy of the heart and he has been a great sufferer and gradually declining since last August. Excepting a few years spent in the south, Mr. Sanderson has lived in this vicinity since before the Civil War. He had been a widower for many years and had no near relatives living excepting his daughter, Mrs. Lou Eaton, with whom he has long made his home and who with her husband, have been tenderly devoted to their aged father.

Funeral services were held at Hixson Grove Chapel at 2 o'clock this Wednesday afternoon, conducted by rev. E. S. Brown. Interment was in Slagle Cemetery. ~ Newspaper unknown.
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Death of C. D. Sanderson

A Resident of Jasper County for About Fifty-Six years

Corchran D. Sanderson died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lou Eaton, Jan. 25, 1911, aged 75 years, 9 months and 27 days. Mr. Sanderson was born in the town of Newmarket, Highland County, Ohio, March 26, 1837. He came of good families who came to Ohio before the war of 1812. His lineage is Irish, Scotch and Welch. Mr. Sanderson came to Jasper County, Iowa, April, 1855, then a young man, when the prairies of Jasper County were unsettled. He was united in marriage with Miss Susan C. West Jan. 31, 1860. After marriage he settled on a farm of his own just east of the old John Moss farm, know afterward as the John Wheeler and later as the R. P. Holmes farm, and in a house known as the Enoch Ross homestead in an early day.

He engaged in buying stock for himself and for others for several years. His wife died April 19, 1869, leaving two little girls, Jennie and Lou, the former having died in infancy.

Mr. Sanderson in later years spent several years in Texas and Louisiana but all the time claiming Iowa as his home. During the Booerich war he made three trips from New Orleans to Cape Town, South Africa, in charge of three ship loads of horses, two ships under the stars and stripes and one under the British Lion. In making these trips he traveled 4,900 miles.

Politically he was a democrat. At one time he was a member of Hixson Grove Chapel, Methodist Protestant church, of which he was a strong friend until death.

The funeral services were held in the old church, conducted by his old friend, the Rev. E. S. Brown, of Newton, after which the body was laid to rest in Hixson Grove cemetery by his numerous old friends to await the Resurrection day. ~ Newspaper unknown.

Transcriber note: Death date is different as well as burial, one article has Hixson Grove Cemetery and the other has Slagle Cemetery.