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John Franklin Sanders Sr.

Born 5 Mar 1830 in Montgomery, Illinois, United States

Ancestors

Son of Moses Martin Sanders Sr. and Amanda Armstrong (Faucett) Sanders

Brother of William Carroll Sanders, Richard Twiggs Sanders, Rebecca Ann (Sanders) Sanderson, Martha Brown (Sanders) Knight, David Walker Sanders Sr., Joseph Moroni Sanders, Sydney Rigdon Sanders, Emma (Sanders) Tidwell, Eliza Jane Sanders, Hyrum Smith Sanders and Moses Martin Sanders Jr.

Husband of Mary Irene (Clement) Sanders — married 15 Jul 1855 in Union Fort, Utah

Husband of Jane (Gibson) Sanders — married 22 Mar 1858 in Brigham Young's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah, USA

Descendants

Father of Nancy Irene (Sanders) Cox, John Franklin Sanders Jr., Mary Eliza (Sanders) Thompson, Phebe Jane (Sanders) Jones, Martin Henry Sanders, Amanda Ann Sanders, Thomas Alma Sanders, Amy Elmira (Sanders) Siegel, Olive Loretta Sanders, William Franklin Sanders, Ellen Clymena (Sanders) Cardon and Joseph Myron Sanders

Died 18 Mar 1896 at age 66 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona Territory

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John became a member of the LDS Church between 1830 - 1848.

John Sanders Sr. was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

Biography

John was born in 1830 in Illinois.

He is the son of Moses Sanders and Amanda Fausett.

LDS Early Church Ordinance: Baptism on March 1, 1838 (Reference: Family Group Sheet-Self; Temple Index Bureau; Early Church File)

He initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with his mother and siblings in 1850 with the Warren Foote Company, Amanda Armstrong Faucett Sanders (Age: 40), Martha Brown Sanders (Age: 17), Joseph Moroni Sanders (Age: 13) and Emma Sanders (Age: 10). Several years later, in 1863 he crossed the plains again, this time as a captain of his own out-and-back company (John F. Sanders Company).

He passed away in 1896 in the Arizona Territory and is buried in the City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona.^[1] Find A Grave has a photo of his headstone and house. There is also an extensive history of the family in his bio.

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Sources

↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #25461386

Randy Huskey, firsthand knowledge. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Randy and others.
Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints 1830-1848, Volume 38, RUS—SHE Compiled by Susan Ward Easton Black, Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University. https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/334417?availability=Family%20History%20Library
LDS Pioneer Overland Travel 1847-1868 web site: https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/pioneers/4083/john-franklin-sanders

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:

Larry Sanders : Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #724942
Charley Sanders : Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup R-FT357996, FTDNA kit #905015

It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:

~6.25% ~25.00% Don Masters : 23andMe
~3.12% ~12.50% David Van Dam : 23andMe
~3.12% Kathleen (Creel) Leppert : AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Kathy_Creel_Leppert + Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T511544 [compare], FTDNA kit #692383
~1.56% Robert Van Dam : 23andMe, GEDmatch M572509 [compare]
~1.56% ~1.56% Janice (Heatherly) Peay : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A574060 [compare], Ancestry member JanicePeay
~1.56% David Sanderson : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch PF2600349 [compare], Ancestry member disander1
~1.56% Krisanne (Kight) Hoopes : AncestryDNA
~0.78% ~6.25% Sandrala Montgomery : 23andMe, GEDmatch m609043 [compare]
~0.78% Scott Riddle : 23andMe
~0.78% Roger Ivie : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A224777 [compare], Ancestry member roger_ivie
~0.78% Jerri (Thorpe) McCoy : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A096597 [compare], Ancestry member JKTMC
~0.78% Alicia (Rhodes) Kayga : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A872758 [compare], Ancestry member aliciakayga
~0.78% ~3.12% Rosemary Hopkins : AncestryDNA
~0.78% Clyde Wiles : MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch H286832 [compare]
~0.39% L (Hess) B : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A295598 [compare], Ancestry member LauraHB55

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Rejected matches › John Sanders (1828-1897) › John Randall Sanders (abt.1830-)

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John Franklin Sanders Sr. (1830 - 1896)

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