Samuel David Sanders

Samuel David Sanders

• Father: Samuel Gillespie Sanders b. 1852, d. 30 September 1892
• Mother: Mary Wade Shipp b. March 1852, d. 4 March 1929

• Samuel David Sanders was born on 21 December 1880 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee.
• Mary Wade Shipp appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas, at College Street. Other members of the household included Samuel David Sanders, Mary Shipp Sanders, Nannie Gillespie Sanders, Albert Godfrey Sanders, Shipp Gillespie Sanders, Martha Pegues Sanders, John Randolph Sanders and Samuel David Sanders.
• He married Hattie B. Street, daughter of Harry Street and Alice W. Clinton, on 18 May 1909 in Texas, indexed in both Grayson and Hopkins counties (?)
• Samuel David Sanders registered for the draft on 9 September 1918 in Brooks County, Texas, while living with his wife Hattie in Falfurrias, self-employed there as a farmer.
• He officially witnessed the death of Hattie B. Street on 13 August 1955 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
• Samuel David Sanders became a widower at the 13 August 1955 death of his wife Hattie B. Street.
• The following appeared on 15 October 1962 in the Denton Record-Chronicle: Miss Mary Shipp Sanders, 83, of 1902 Bell, a retired professor at Southwestern University in Georgetown, died at 10 a.m. Sunday in Flow Memorial Hospital.
       A native of Georgetown, Miss Sanders attended the University of Chicago and Columbia University. She had served as county superintendent of schools in Williamson County and as supervisor of education in Johnson County.
       Survivors include two sisters, Miss Nannie G. Sanders and Miss Martha P. Sanders, both of Denton; three brothers, S. D. Sanders of Boerne, Albert G. Sanders of Jackson, Miss., and Randolph Sanders of Mineola; and several nephews and neices.
       Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Cole Chapel of the First Methodist Church. The Rev. Noel Bryant, pastor, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Al Murdock. Burial will be in Georgetown Cemetery under the arrangement of Schmitz-Floyd-Hamlett Funeral Home.
       Miss Sanders had served the American Association of University Women as historian for a number of years and had been publicity chairman of the association this year. She was, at one time, director of Christian education at First Methodist Church in Denton and has been active in the Wesleyan Service Guild. She was an accredited teacher of training courses for Methodist churches.
       The family has requested that memorials be made to the American Heart Association or to the American Cancer Society.
• Samuel David Sanders died on 12 June 1970 at age 89 in Boerne, Kendall County, Texas, at Hill Top Nursing Home . His death was officially witnessed by Mary Burnett Sanders.
• He was interred at Mission Burial Park, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 9 Dec 2013

• Charts: Descendants of PEGUES Claudius & Marcia Saunders