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EDWARD A. SANDERS, FRANKLIN. -- Edward A. Sanders was born in New York, July 2,
1817. He received a meagre education in the public schools of Ohio, where he
spent his boyhood. He started doing for himself at the age of twenty-one years
as a brick maker and bricklayer, and has been thus engaged most of his life. He
was married to Miss Goff, who was born in Virginia in 1820. There were born to
this marriage eight children, five of whom are still living: Delicia, wife of
George Howard; Flora, Helena, wife of Jules Meyeret; John H. and Gordan. Those
dead are: Anna, died 1861; Cyrus, died 1873; Borena, died 1854. The mother of
these children died in 1866.
Our subject has had a checkered career.
During the Civil War he was pressed into service (though neutral) by the Federal
authorities. They also destroyed a great amount of property in the way of boats
and stock for him. They also appropriated twenty-four bales of cotton belonging
to him. In recent years all his property was destroyed by fire. Notwithstanding
that, he still has a comfortable house in Franklin. He also has 160 acres of
timber land in St. Mary parish, and some interests in Virginia.
Our
subject is a Methodist in belief, though not a communicant. The rest of the
family are Roman Catholics.
Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, published in 1891, Biographical Section, page 384.
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