Brief Life History of William Henry
When William Henry Sanders was born in July 1850, in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States, his father, Stephen C. Sanders, was 27 and his mother, Nancy Elizabeth Caraway, was 30. He married Martha Lehi “Mattie” Caraway on 29 March 1883, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Civil District 7, Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died about 1905, at the age of 56.
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- William H Sanders, "United States Census, 1900"
- W H Sanders, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- William H Sanders in entry for Nannie May Nichols, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English (Devon), Dutch, and North German: variant of Sander , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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