William Wilfred Saunders MD (1902 - 1993)

Born 13 Jun 1902 in The Dalles, Wasco Co., Oregon, USA

Ancestors

Son of Freas Brown Saunders and Lola Anne (Ewbank) Saunders

Husband of Paula Johanna Erna (Hartmann) Saunders RN — married 27 Jan 1941 in San Francisco, California, USA

Died 22 Sep 1993 at age 91 in Medford, Jackson Co., Oregon, USA

Biography

Childhood:

In 1902 Bill was born in The Dalles, Oregon. His mother, Lola Anne Ewbank Saunders, was 25 years old when her first child was born; his father, Freas Brown Saunders, was 28 years old when Bill was born. The Dalles is a town on the South bank of the Columbia River, just downstream from an enormous set of rapids that have historically prevented navigation any farther upstream.

In 1904 the family moved to Arlington, Oregon, a few miles upstream from The Dalles. There his sister, Florence, was born in August of 1904 when Bill was a little over 2 years old.

In 1906, when Bill was 4 years old, he and his sister Florence and his parents went East for the celebration of the Golden Wedding Anniversary of his grandparents. They rode trains half way across the continent from Oregon to the vicinity of Cleveland, Ohio at the south end of Lake Erie. The celebration took place at 77 South Water St. in Oberlin, Ohio, at the home of William and Mary Elizabeth Saunders. During this visit Bill met all of the children of William and Mary E. as well as most of the spouses and children of his aunts and uncles.

Bill wrote about a side trip of that 1906 visit. The Maud Webster who they visited was the older half sister of his mother with whom she had grown up in Kansas and The Dalles. Bill wrote, "We, that is Mother, Florence and I, visited her at her home in Warren, Penna. in June of 1906. I remember the occasion because I got to lick the spoon after my birthday cake was iced. I also remember the boat trip there and back to Cleveland (from Erie) with the old side-wheeler steamers with rocking-beam actions."

In 1906 Bill and his sister Florence and his mother visited Cadillac, Michigan on the way home from the Golden Wedding celebration. Bill wrote, "At Cadilliac we had our first ride in Uncle Will's new car. The old one was a carriage-wheeled Studebaker with a buckboard dash and a tiller for steering. But we rode in the snazzy new model with big brass acetylene headlamps, big brass radiator, leatherette mud guards, a running-board to help climb up to the front seat, and two longitudinal rear seats with a little stairway at the back. It had a regular steering-wheel with a brass horn attached complete with rubber bulb to sqeeze. I don't remember anything about the trip but do remember the trouble we had getting started. It seems that the acetylene generator had to be checked first, but when Uncle Will opened the carbide charging door of the little cylinder on the right running-board and used a match to light the interior, the residual gas flared and singed his whiskers. But no harm was done, at least we proceeded."

The family spent the summer of 1906 thru the fall of 1907 in Shaniko, Oregon, where Bill's father managed a wool warehouse. What Bill remembered of Shaniko is "the water tower next door that ran over from time to time, the school house to the left around the corner, the general store with it's cheese knife next to the cracker barrel, it's coffee grinder that smelled so swell and it's hardware department next door...the wool-press near the warehouse where the raw wool from big sacks was baled in 500-lb units wrapped in burlap held by steel bands. The power was supplied by a span of horses pulling a bar in a circle that turned a pulley which turned the press screw. I believe that it was the second season [that] Dad got Mother to bake Parker-House rolls for me to deliver for the morning break which in those days was for beer, not coffee. Dad, who always was a slave driver as a boss, objected to the effects of the beer."

From the fall of 1907 thru September of 1908 his family lived on a land grant farm 10 miles south of Arlington. His father worked at farming there. Bill wrote of the farm, "The establishment there consisted of a two-room shack, a sizeable water tank near-by, a barn without a roof for the half-dozen horses, and the 160 acres, only part of it flat enough to plow. The water tank was filled about every month by hauling from the Berthould's farm, about 7-8 miles by road, in a tank wagon, an all day job."..."Dad plowed for days, seeded, and all the rest only one season. In the fall a flock of Canada geese lit in our field and Dad shot half-a-dozen."

"The summer of 1908 we "farm-sat" a ranch a few miles nearer town. There I loved to crawl over a combine harvester parked in the barn yard, and I learned how to sprint when a big turkey-gobbler disputed my use of his territory."

In September of 1908 the family moved into the town of Arlington and Bill entered First Grade there. Bill wrote, "When we moved to town, F. and I sat atop the load of furniture and equipment in the big open-bed wagon for a long, long ride." In December of 1908 when Bill was 6 years old his second sister, Helen, was born in Arlington. Bill wrote of this event, "When Helen arrived in Dec 1908, I had been told that Mother was sick and sent off to school as usual. I was greatly surprised when a friend of the family told me on the way home, that I had a new sister. All I had noticed was that Mother was getting fat."

On May 27, 1909 Bill graduated from First Grade. His Diploma of Promotion reads, "This certifies that Wilford Saunders has satisfactorily completed the studies required by the State Course of Study in the First Grade of the Arlington Public School in District No. 3, at Arlington, Oregon, and is hereby promoted to the Second Grade." The diploma was signed by his teacher, Mrs. C. W. Shurte. Bill wrote, "In Arlington the school was a two or three room affair, all I saw was the home room with about four grades which got the teacher's attention in turn while the rest of us wrote our lessons on scratchy slates. Every so often we would line up and march around the room for exercise. I was delighted one day when I got to lead the parade tho I was only a second-grader; I didn't know that was to be my last day there before moving to The Dalles in October."

In 1909 his family moved back to The Dalles, where his father continued to live until 1960. Bill's father managed a warehouse handling wheat and a flour mill. The 1920 U.S. Census lists Freas B. as a "Weigher" in a "Flour Mill". Bill recently wrote, "In 1911-1912 the mill where Dad worked burned to the ground (a spectacular blaze that lit up the whole town) but the warehouse part was mostly saved. They started to rebuild immediately so Dad continued with his job with new assignments." After that job, until about 1960, Bill's father ran a couple of trucks hauling freight around The Dalles.

In January of 1910 when Bill was 7 years old, his youngest sister, Mary, was born in The Dalles. The family was recorded in the U.S. Census of 1910.^[1] A baby boy was born to the family in 1914, but he died within days of his birth.

Bill's mother's half-sister, Lizzie Barnes, lived with the family and helped with the housework around 1910. Bill has written of Lizzie, "She cooked for the Bertolds during their summer harvest for several years and did odd jobs as available". Florence remembered that a high school girl, Mildred Angle, later lived with the family and helped with the housework.

Sometime around 1915, Bill and his family visited his mother's half-sister Dora who lived somewhere on the Klikitat River near Goldendale, Washington. The trip took a whole day: 9 miles on the train to Rowena, ferry across the river to Lyle, then a dinky train toward Goldendale.

Bill and his sisters worked in the cherry orchards near The Dalles at harvest time all during their later childhoods. Bill started working in the orchards when he was 12; one year he was straw boss there. Florence worked at packing cherries. At home, it was Bill's responsibility to always have enough kindling chopped for the wood stoves that were used for cooking and for heating the family house.

Bill's interest in the new field of electricity developed during high school; he and some friends built an electromagnet at school. Bill continued to live in The Dalles until he graduated from High School there in 1919, on his 17th birthday.

College Years:

Bill was a student at Oregon State College at Corvallis, Oregon during the school years from 1919 thru 1924. His progress was slightly delayed when he couldn't complete a course in blacksmithing because of a broken arm. He finished his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in June of 1924.

December of 1919 brought unusually bad snow and cold to Corvallis. Most of the students were sent home for an early Christmas but Bill and the other students who lived East of the mountains had to stay on campus; they all moved into one dormitory to conserve heat.

Bill spent the summer of 1920 chasing pine beetles on Mt. Shasta.

Bill wrote, "In 1921 I went to ROTC camp at Camp Knox,Ky. The pay and travel allowance were enough to take me to Cleveland to see Ashton's, Al's, Sue's families." "In 1921 Cousin Charles worked at a steel plant in Cleveland, next to the river that burned (from oil pollution). He gave me one of the high-lights of the summer when he took me to see an open hearth furnace pour 100 tons of steel. That was the time we were pinched for speeding on the way down. He had to stay in the clink in Lakewood while I drove his car thru the Main down-town district to get a bail bond at Police hq."

In 1921 Bill visited his Uncle Will and Aunt Mary at 432 E. Harris St. in Cadillac. His Aunt Mary E. Graham Saunders entertained him for a week during that summer. Clyde and Helen lived next door at 434 E. Harris St. as they had in 1906 when Bill and Florence visited. Clyde and Helen had married in 1905 and had a son in 1906. Marion lived down the street at no great distance (Cadillac was not a large town).

Bill completed academic terms at Corvallis that ended 17 Dec. 1921, 18 Mar. 1922 and 10 June 1922.

The summer of 1922 Bill worked as a call boy for the Southern Pacific Railroad at Gerber, California. He had to go round to the lodging houses and make sure that the train crews were up early enough to take the trains out on time.

Bill spent June 15, 1922 thru July 26, 1922 at Camp Lewis, Washington. He completed the ROTC Advanced Camp in Field Artillery there.

During the summer of 1922 Bill worked in the north end of California's Central Valley, on a crew that was constructing high voltage power lines. It was on this job that he had his first try at driving a truck, a model T full of dynamite that he volunteered to drive up a rutted road to a construction site.

By September 20, 1922, Bill was back at Oregon State Agricultural College, signing up for classes. Bill completed an academic term at Corvallis that ended 16 Dec. 1922. On January 2, 1923, Bill was appointed Cadet Captain in the Field Artillery Unit of the ROTC.

In 1923 Bill worked for three months as a call boy for Southern Pacific at Gerber, California. He worked for another three months as a timekeeper for Pacific Gas and Electric in the upper Sacramento valley. It was here that he contracted Malaria.

On September 28, 1923, Bill was appointed Cadet Major in the Field Artillery Unit of the ROTC. On 23 Dec. 1923 Bill was appointed Second Lieutenant, Field Artillery of the Officer's Reserve Corps of the Army of the United States. On the ninth day of June, 1924, Bill received his degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.

Work and Further Study:

In 1924 the new graduate Engineer traveled to Schenectady in Upstate New York; he rode the train to New Orleans, took a steamer to New York and then a train upstate to Schenectady. He worked as an engineering interne for General Electric. He worked 10 hours per day, 5 1/2 days per week at this job; he was paid $.50/hour. Bill took a course in Contemporary American Philosophy at Union College in Schenectady in the Fall of 1925. Bill was impressed by the height of the winter snowdrifts in this area.

In December of 1925 Bill was in Dubuque, Iowa, to help to start installation of radio receivers in phonograph cabinets. One assignment of the GE job took Bill to Philadelphia during June and July of 1926. In July of 1926 he took an auto trip to Boston with "pals".

"In 1926", Bill wrote, "I attended Uncle Ashton's funeral and later the same year, stopped on my way West from Schenectady for more visits.

In February of 1926 Bill's mother died at The Dalles. His father broke up the family home soon afterwards.

During the winter and spring terms of 1926-27 Bill studied at the University of Oregon in Eugene. He took courses in differential equations, chemistry, French, and Philosophy of History. Bill sailed on the S.S. Admiral Schley from Portland to San Francisco on 11 June 1927.

On 12 Oct. 1927 Bill was appointed First Lieutenant, Field Artillery in the Army of the United States. He attended an O.R.C. Camp in Monterey in 1928.

In 1927-31 Bill lived in Palo Alto, California. Bill lived in the Romanders' Boarding House in 1930.^[2] At this time he worked with Charley Litton as a Radio Engineer for Kolster Radio. Bill later worked for Federal Telegraph Company, designing radio transmitters for ship-to-shore service. Bill studied Elementary German at University of California Extension Division in 1928. On 7/9/31, Bill rode a Pullman car from the Oakland Pier to Chicago.

In 1931-1933 Bill lived in E. Orange, New Jersey. He worked for Federal Telegraph as a Radio Engineer. He also took chemistry classes at Columbia University in New York City. His sister, Florence, was working as a nurse in New Jersey at this time.

Of 1931 and 1932, Bill has written, "Florence and I spent Xmas in Cleveland in 1931, driving from Newark on a long Week-end. The next year we toured thru Cleveland, to Cadillac, Sault Ste. Marie, and home down the St. Laurence and the East coast." They visited Clyde Saunders and his family at Sault St. Marie in September of 1932. They drove to Huntington, W.Va., on a long weekend to see Janette Cochran. In March 1932 they drove to Washington, D.C., to see F.D.R. inaugurated on a chilly day. They visited Kate Chase Heene and her four children at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, in 1932.

In 1933 Bill moved to Stanford. He "stopped thru Cleveland on the way West from Newark in 1933." He said of his job as a radio engineer while the Depression deepened that he was the next in line to lose his job, so he quit and went to Medical School before he could be fired.

Medical School:

In 1933-37 Bill lived in Stanford, California. He finished a bachelor's degree in chemistry at Stanford University during this time. His diploma indicates that he received a Bachelor of Arts - with Distinction on 18 June 1934. Stanford University School of Medicine allowed him to matriculate on October 2, 1934.

In 1937-43 Bill lived in San Francisco, California.^[3] He graduated from Stanford University Medical School there. He contracted TB from a pediatric patient and had to take time out from his studies to recover; the "cure" for his TB was to collapse half of his right lung and to give him bed rest for some months in Marin General Hospital. The Depression made it hard for Bill to get money from his savings to live on while he was in the hospital; his sister Florence had to beg and plead with the people at a bankrupt savings bank to be allowed to withdraw his money from his own account. Bill received his M.D. degree June 13, 1940.

Bill was an Intern at San Francisco County Hospital when he met his future wife, Paula Hartmann, who was a nursing shift supervisor on a ward there. Bill and Paula married at San Francisco's City Hall during their lunch hours on January 27, 1941; Bill's sister, Florence, was there as a witness.

Married Life:

Bill and Paula first lived in San Francisco on Franklin St. near Sacramento and later near San Francisco General Hospital.

In 1943 Bill and Paula lived in Orinda, California. Bill was a Radiologist at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland and Richmond during this time. He completed his Radiology residency in 1944.

From 1944-46 Bill and Paula lived in a tiny house on a street in Berkeley near the University of California. Bill's first daughter was born in 1945 at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland. Bill's first look at his daughter was during a break between his patients at work; Paula's attending doctor had called him to announce that he was a father.

In 1946 Bill's family moved to a house in Oakland, California. Then Bill resigned at Kaiser Hospital and got a position as a Radiologist at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in San Francisco under the auspices of a Joint University Deans' Co.

In 1951 Bill took a 30 day trip from the U.S. West Coast to a meeting in Boston. He took along Paula, her sister, Hertha, and Hertha's daughter, Eleanor.

From 1946-51 Bill and his family lived in an apartment on the grounds of the "Fort Miley" V.A. Hospital. The apartment was near enough to San Francisco's Golden Gate that the fog horns on the channel lighthouse were a constant background for much of the year. A favorite diversion was watching the men bobbing in a small boat trying to get supplies to the lighthouse keepers. Bill's second daughter was born in June of 1949 and brought to this home.

In 1951 Bill and his family moved to a new house in Sausalito, California. Bill and Paula had planned the house with an architect and they did part of the finish work on the house. Bill continued to construct built-in furniture for years after the family moved in. The house was not quite finished and the family barely moved in when the extended family celebrated their first Christmas there.

In the Summer of 1956 Bill took Paula and Patty to Mexico in conjunction with an international Radiology convention. In addition to Mexico City, Cuernavaca and Taxco, they also visited several archaeological areas. Bill records this as "...From Sausalito to Tijuana by car. Plane to Mexico City. Bus tours to Taxco & Puebla. Puddle-jumper to corn-field in Oaxaca." The airplane rides on this trip were especially memorable; the flight to Mexico City couldn't get above the thunder storms so we got a "roller-coaster" ride; during the landing at Oaxaca we could see nothing but corn fields out the side window until after the wheels were on the ground. Six year old Sandi stayed with Paula's parents at their "Ranch" despite her protests.

Sometime during the Sausalito years, Bill and his family were visited by his cousin Charles from Cleveland. Charles' mother, Ollie Gove Saunders, and his brother, Melvin Saunders, lived in Sausalito all during the years that Bill and his family did.

During these years Bill's family generally spent Easter vacations camping in the deserts or exploring the California Missions. They frequently visited the "Ranch" of Paula's parents for Christmas and hosted the extended family for Thanksgiving or the other way round. The girls generally visited their Aunt Hertha or their grandparents for part of each summer. Summer vacations for Bill's family were mostly longer camping trips to the north and east of California. The last Sausalito summer the family towed a small live-in trailer to the headwaters of the Columbia River and back.

In 1958 Bill moved his family to Martinsburg, West Virginia. He worked as a Radiologist for the V.A. there while showing his family the sights of the East Coast. The family lived in an apartment attached to the corridors of the V.A. Hospital.

In the Summer of 1959 Bill, Paula, Patty and Sandi all went to Europe. After attending a convention in South Germany, they took a couple of weeks of bus trips with others from the convention and then traveled to France and Italy as a family. Meeting and visiting with some of Paula's family in North Germany was one of the high points of the trip. Bill's report of this trip is "1959 JUL-AUG Europe with Paula, Pat & Sandi. Martinsburg to Cosman's in N.J. Idlewild airport (JFK) to Gander, Shannon, Munich (midnight to midnight). Innsbruch. North German Tour (Neuremberg, Frankfort, Mainz, Bonn, Cologne, Ruhr cities, Hartz Mts., Hamburg, Luebeck). Amsterdam, London, Paris, Milan, Florence, Rome." The climax to this trip was more than 24 (mostly sleepless) hours between hotels traveling from Rome to Germany to Shannon (where two of the plane's four engines were torn out for repair) to Gander and finally New York; the next evening the family was visiting Jimmy Cosman's home when two airplanes collided over New York City.

In the Fall of 1959 Bill accepted a post as Professor of Radiology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. After several delays, he and the family moved into a house near the N.W. edge of the District of Columbia. They lived there until Bill retired in June of 1962.

Retirement:

Bill and his family moved to Palo Alto, California during the summer of 1962. Bill and Paula drove West alone and chose the house. Pat and Sandi rode the train from summer camp in Virginia to find their new home in California. Pat went away to college in the fall so she spent only holidays and vacations in the Palo Alto house. Sandi graduated from high school in 1967 and moved out of the house soon afterward. The family took several camping and hiking vacations in the West during these summers.

In 1968-74 Bill and Paula lived in an apartment in the hills of Menlo Park. During this time they made a number of trips.

"1969 Feb-Mar. Hawaii with Paula. Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, Oahu. (3 days each with rental car)."

"1971 Apr-May. Greece & Turkey with Paula. S.F., N.Y., Paris, Athens, Istambul by air. Bus to Troy, Pergamum, Izmir, Sardis. Air to Athens, then bus to Delphi, Olympia, Nauplion, Piraeus. Then Cruise to Santorini, Crete, Rhodes, Kusadasai (Ephesis). Finally Athens and home."

"1972 Mar-Apr. Mexico with Paula. S.F., Mexico City, Guadalahara, Patzcuaro, Acapulco, Mexico, Merida, Uxmal, Chichen-Itza, Cosumel."

"1972 Jul-Aug. Scandanavia with Paula. Iceland, Helsinki, Turku, Stockholm, Uppsala, DeLacarlia, Sogne Fjord, Bergen, Oslo, Copenhagen, Elsinore, Aarhus, Odensee."

Bill and Florence visited their cousin, Mrs. Lola Ewbank Powell, in Portland, Oregon, in 1972. They and Paula also visited Mrs. Sue Ewbank Miller in The Dalles, Oregon.

"1973 Feb-Mar. N.Z. & Aus with Paula. Honolulu, Aukland, Rotorura, Christ Church, Queenstown, Mt. Cook, Milford Sound, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Alice Springs, Cairns, Sydney, Fiji, Tahiti, L.A." A high point of this trip was landing on a N.Z. glacier in a small airplane. One of the more striking episodes of that trip was Bill's climb up Ayer's Rock. He brought back pictures of himself with his hat and face swathed in fine netting to keep the tiny flies out of his eyes, nose, ears, etc. When his legs wouldn't push him up the rock any more, he turned around and backed his way up the steep grade.

"1973 Sept-Oct. Alpes & S.W. France with Paula. Frankfort, Baden, Garmisch, Innsbruch, Saltzburg, Melk, Vienna, Bolzano, Zermatt, Geneva, Nice, Arles, Nimes, Carcassonne, Lourdes, Bordeaux, Loire valley, Normandy, Rouen, Paris."

"1974 May-June. Great Britain & Ireland with Paula. London, Stratford, Salisbury, Plymouth, Bristol, Cork, Killarney, Limerick, Galway, Dublin, Ruthin Castle, Wales, Carlisle, Glasgow, Inverness, Edinburgh, York, Coventry, Oxford, Gatwick airport, Paris and home."

"1974 Dec. Caribbean Cruise with Paula. Ft. Lauderdale, Bahamas, St. Thomas, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad, Caracas, Aruba, Panama, Montego Bay, Ft. L. and home."

"1975 Apr-May. Italy with Paula. Milan, Verona, Bolzano, Venice, Ravenna, San Marino, Assisi, Rome, Naples, Capri, Paestum, Messina, Siracusa, Palermo, Naples, Rome, Siena, Florence, Pisa, Portofino, Genoa, Milan."

"1975 Sept. British Columbia with Paula and Florence. Drove to Vancouver, Banff, Waterton Lakes-Glacier, Sun Valley, Boise, Burns, Lakeview and home."

"1977 May-June. Iberia with Paula. Lisbon, Nazare, Coimbra, Salamanca, Segovia, Madrid, Toledo, Cordoba, Granada, Malaga, Tangier, Cadiz, Seville, Ayamonte, Sagres, Lisbon and home."

"1977 Sept. Ontario with Paula. Toronto thru Chicago, North Bay, Cochrane, Moosonee, Cochrane, Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Espanola, Toronto. Here we rented a car and drove along the St. Lawrence to Ottawa and Back to Toronto thru the uplands."

"1979 July. Swiss Alps with Paula and UC Alumni. I had rail pass. Hq at Montana, a Rhone valley ski resort, we tripped thruout the Rhone valley, and all Switz. Paula and I saw St. Bernard pass and Aosta in Italy. Went to Thun and back thru switch-back RR thru Bernese Alps. Went to JungFrau Hoch. Went up Rhone to Aldermat and the east. Another day to Basel. Then we rented a car and drove thru Innsbruch and the Brenner Pass, thru the Italian Dolomites to Bolzano and back to Zurich and so home."

"1980 Oct-Nov. Stanf. Alum. Mediterranean Cruise with Paula. Athens, Corinth canal, Siracusa, Malta, Agrigento, Tunis, Dougga, Trapani, Palermo, Naples, Pompeii, Messina, Athens."

"1983 Jan. Orinoco and Antilles with Paula. Air to San Juan, Puerto Rico, St. Maarten, Domenica, St. Lucia, Barbados, Tobago, Ciudad Guayana (Angel Falls), Antigua, St Kitts, St Thomas, San Juan and home."

In 1974-85 Bill and Paula lived in an apartment in Mill Valley, overlooking the tidelands of Richardson Bay. Paula died in Mill Valley in April of 1985.

"1985 July. Alaska with Florence. Car to Seattle. Air to Anchorage. Bus to Valdez. Ferry to Whittier. Bus to Anchorage, Denali, Fairbanks, White Horse, Skagway. Ferry to Juneau. Air Seattle, and so home."

In 1985 Bill moved to a full-care facility in Medford, Oregon. His sister, Florence, soon moved into her own unit down the hill from him. They ate most of their meals in the dining room, at very social tables for eight. Bill spent some of his leisure time in his last years learning how to use Personal Computers. Bill and Florence and a friend took several car trips together; Bill and Florence visited their nephew, Lad, and his family many times. Bill took a few bus trips early in his stay at Medford, but was content to stay at home in his later years there.

In 1992 Florence put on an elegant Birthday dinner for Bill's 90th birthday on June 13; many of his fellow residents at "The Manor" honored him. His daughter, Sandi, and her son, Sean, got to Medford in time for the dinner and stayed just long enough for the making of a family portrait the next day. His older daughter, Pat, flew in from Boston for the celebration; she was able to stay a couple of days after the dinner for a fairly leisurely visit with Bill and Florence.

Bill died at Medford, Oregon 22 September 1993; he was 91 years old. ^[4]

Updated 7 July 1995 by Pat Saunders

Find A Grave Memorial for William Saunders

Sources

1. ↑ 1910 United States Federal Census from Ancestry.com

   "Name Wilfrid Saunders

   Age in 1910 7

   Birth Year abt 1903

   Birthplace Oregon

   Home in 1910 Dalles Ward 2, Wasco, Oregon

   Street Clay Street

   Race White

   Gender Male

   Relation to Head of House Son

   Marital Status Single

   Father's Name Freas B Saunders

   Father's Birthplace Pennsylvania

   Mother's Name Lola Saunders

   Mother's Birthplace Kansas

   Native Tongue En

   Attended School Yes

   Household Members

   Name Age

   Freas B Saunders 34

   Lola Saunders 31

   Wilfrid Saunders 7

   Florence Saunders 5

   Helen Saunders 1"

2. ↑ 1930 United States Federal Census from Ancestry.com

   "Name William Saunders

   Age in 1930 27

   Birth Year abt 1903

   Gender Male

   Race White

   Birthplace Oregon

   Marital Status Single

   Relation to Head of House Lodger

   Home in 1930 Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California

   Street Address Cowper

   House Number in Cities or Towns 209

   Dwelling Number 418

   Family Number 611

   Home Owned or Rented Rented

   Attended School No

   Able to Read and Write Yes

   Father's Birthplace Pennsylvania

   Mother's Birthplace Kansas

   Able to Speak English Yes

   Occupation Electre Engineer

   Industry Radio

   Class of Worker Wage or salary worker

   Employment Yes

   Household Members

   Name Age

   Charles Romander 63

   Hannah Romander 60

   Hugo Romander 29

   Henery Tomick 29

   William Saunders 27

   Carma L Thoreson 68

   George Roviz 57"

3. ↑ 1940 United States Federal Census from Ancestry.com

   "Name William W Saunders

   Respondent Yes

   Age 38

   Estimated Birth Year abt 1902

   Gender Male

   Race White

   Birthplace Oregon

   Marital Status Single

   Home in 1940 San Francisco, San Francisco, California

   Inferred Residence in 1935 Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California

   Residence in 1935 Palo Alto Santa Clara California

   Resident on farm in 1935 No

   Sheet Number 1A

   Institution San Francisco City And County Hospital

   Occupation Interne

   Attended School or College No

   Highest Grade Completed College, 5th or subsequent year

   Hours Worked Week Prior to Census 99

   Class of Worker Wage or salary worker in private work

   Weeks Worked in 1939 26

   Income 60.08

   Income Other Sources Yes

   Household Members

   Name Age

   William W Saunders 38"

4. ↑ "Social Security Death Index Name William W. Saunders SSN 572-14-6388 Last Residence Medford, 97504, Jackson, Oregon, USA Born 13 Jun 1902 Died 22 Sep 1993 State (Year) SSN issued California - Before 1951".

• Paternal relationship of Freas Saunders to Bill Saunders is confirmed by a triangulated group consisting of Steve Bishop 1C GEDmatch A672157, John Ellithorp 6C GEDmatch A804609, Dina Helock 6C GEDmatch A862308, David High 6C GEDmatch M925223, , and Pat Saunders GEDmatch A007556 sharing @25 cM segment on chromosome 15 from 33,130,741 to 57,928,789. All five descend from Jacob Zimmerman and one of his wives.

• Maternal relationship of Lola Ewbank Saunders to Bill Saunders is confirmed by a triangulated group consisting of Raymond Shriver II 4C GEDmatch A074517, Julie Bishop 4C1R GEDmatch A474818, Steve Bishop 1C GEDmatch A672157, and Pat D Saunders GEDmatch A007556 sharing a ? cM segment on chromosome 14 from 33,664,258 to 36,400,549. All four descend from William Scott and Elizabeth Coe. Elizabeth Coe's father was Ebenezer Coe who served during the Revolutionary War.

• Paternal relationship of Freas B Saunders to Bill Saunders is confirmed by a triangulated group consisting of [Kelly O'Leary] 2C1R GEDmatch A238950, Steve Bishop 1C GEDmatch A672157, and Pat D Saunders GEDmatch A007556 sharing a 13.5 cM segment on chromosome 18 from 70,917,614 to 76,102,273. All three descend from William Saunders and Mary E Ashton.

• Paternal relationship of Freas B Saunders to Bill Saunders is confirmed by a triangulated group consisting of [Kelly O'Leary] 2C1R GEDmatch A238950, Steve Bishop 1C GEDmatch A672157, and Pat D Saunders GEDmatch A007556 sharing a 14.1 cM segment on chromosome 1 from 15,275,882 to 22,518,476. All three descend from William Saunders and Mary E Ashton.

• Maternal relationship of Lola Ewbank Saunders to Bill Saunders is confirmed by a triangulated group consisting of Julie Bishop 4C1R GEDmatch A474818, Steve Bishop 1C GEDmatch A672157, and Pat D Saunders GEDmatch A007556 sharing a 35.4 cM segment on chromosome 14 from 33,664,258 to 73,006,350. All three descend from Mark S Finicum and Phebe Scott.

• Death data from Oregon Death Certificate for William Wilfred Saunders.
• Birth date and place from 1940 Oregon delayed birth certificate for "William Wilfred Saunders" written in his own hand.
• Name of "Wilford Saunders" was used on certificate of promotion from First Grade on 17 May 1909 in Arlington, Oregon.
• "Wilford W Saunders" appears on U.S. Census of 1920 for South Dalles Precinct, The Dalles City, Wasco Co., Oregon.
• Documents from his college days show the gradual evolution of his name to William Wilfred Saunders.