Mary (Carter) Sanders (1775 - abt. 1855)

Born 1775 in South Carolina

Ancestors

Descendants

Died about 1855 at about age 80 in Hart County, Georgia, USA

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Biography

Mary Carter was born in 1775, in South Carolina, a daughter of Thomas Carter Jr and Mary Elizabeth Chilton. Her family was living in the Ninety Six District of South Carolina at the time of the American Revolutionary War. Her father is honored by the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, as Ancestor #A020072. Applications for membership in the Society of the DAR have been made by the descendants of Mary Carter and her husband, Elias Sanders. ^[1]

Three of the children of Mary and Elias: Elias Sanders Jr., Mary Elias Sanders and Patience Sanders married Vickery siblings, whose parents were Aaron Vickery and Millie Dodson. Children of Mary and Elias are:

1. Thomas Sanders (b. ca. 1795) mar. Isabella Totman
2. Elias Sanders Jr. (b. 10 Jan 1797) mar. Julia Vickery
3. Mary Elias Sanders (b. 1800) mar. James B. Vickery
4. Calvin P. Sanders (b. 13 Aug 1803) mar. Sarah Miller
5. Lewis Manley Sanders (b. ca. 1804) mar. 1) Prudence Miller and 2) Sarah (unknown)
6. Samuel B. Sanders (b. 22 Jun 1808) mar. Anna Skelton
7. Rachel Elizabeth Sanders (b. ca. 1810) mar. Joel H. Dyar
8. Jonathan P. Sanders (b. ca. 1812) mar. 1) Orpha Miller and 2)Frances Dunn
9. Patience Sanders (b. 11 Jan 1818) mar. 1) Joseph Hightower Vickery and 2) John Washington Smith

Mary (Carter) Sanders is on the United States Census of 1850, living in Franklin county, Georgia. ^[2] Mary and Elias are buried in the Elias Sanders Family Cemetery, in Hart county, Georgia, laid out from territory that formerly was Elbert and Franklin counties in 1854. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A020072
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZYG-145 : 20 December 2020), Mary Sanders in household of Elias Sanders, Franklin, Georgia, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84514966/mary-sanders

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LTQ2-PCH
• "Pioneers of Hart County" publication, editor Travis Parker, The Joseph Vickery Family article April 12, April 19 (Elias Vickery Family), and April 26 (The William H. "Skinner" Bill Vickery Family), May 3, May 10 (The John Parker Vickery Family),1979. Prior to the establishment of the Hart County Historical Society.

Acknowledgments

• handwritten family ancestry chart received by Brenda Cockrum Gravitt from William Vickery Weldon and Edward Vickery.