Sanders, Alexander

SANDERS

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Date: 7/2/2021 at 20:13:31

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.583

ALEXANDER SANDERS
Alexander Sanders, owning one hundred and twenty-three acres of rich and productive land in Squaw Township, his home place of eighty acres being located on section 29, was born in West Virginia, February 4, 1859. His parents, Peter and Rebecca (Bolyard) Sanders, were natives of Virginia, but the former died when Alexander was a small boy, while the mother came to Iowa and lived in New Virginia until the time of her demise.
Alexander Sanders came to this state when a young man and has since been identified with the agricultural interests of Warren County. He and his wife reside on eighty acres on section 29, Squaw Township, which was given the latter by her father at the time of her marriage. They own one hundred and twenty-three acres of farming land in this township, and Mr. Sanders is meeting with a creditable measure of success in the cultivation of his fields, which annually return golden harvests in return for the care and labor that is bestowed upon them.
On the 1st of February, 1883, Mr. Sanders was united in marriage to Miss Rosa J. Keller, a daughter of Franklin Keller, whose sketch appears on another page of this work. Eight children wereborn to this union, seven of whom are living, and the record of the family is as follows: Lola O., who died when six weeks old; Lillian, the wife of Frank Sims, of Lafayette, In­diana ; and Bess E., Lyda B., Ethel F., Loren, Hildred C., and Rosamond, all at home.
Mr. Sanders is a Republican in his political views, and he and his family are members of the Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church. They have an extensive circle of friends throughout the community, the hospitality of the best homes being freely and cordially extended them.