Brief Life History of Moses
When Moses Saunders was born on 7 March 1795, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Joseph Hill Saunders, was 43 and his mother, Abigail Corning, was 42. He married Sarah Stanwood in 1815, in Nova Scotia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 20 August 1841, at the age of 46, and was buried in Ohio, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Moses Sanders/Saunders, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mosas Saunders in entry for John Witham and Sarah S Saunders, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Moses Sanders in entry for Eunice Crosby, "Nova Scotia Deaths, 1864-1877"
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1823
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Name Meaning
English (Surrey and Kent): variant of Sander , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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