Emma Rebecca (Sanders) Alston (1846 - 1920)

Born 28 Feb 1846 in Sumter, South Carolina, United States

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Died 4 May 1920 at age 74 in Sumter, South Carolina, United States

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Emma was born in 1846. She passed away in 1920.

• Mrs Emma Rebecca Alston died at her home near Hagood in this

county Tuesday night as a result of a hip fracture she had sustained the Friday before. She had been in failing health for the past year and her constitution was not sufficiently robust to recover from this fall she had when entering the Ellerbe's home to pay a call. Mrs Alston had spent all the 75 years of her life in the old Sanders homestead, left her by her father, the late William Sanders. Her husband, Dr John Ashe Alston, died some 35 years ago.

Mrs Alston is survived by her only child, Algernon Alston, who with his family lived with her, and one sister, Mrs George Graham, of Sumter. Her brother-in-law, Dr Rowland Alston, of Charleston, attended the funeral which was held at the Shiloh burying ground at the Church of the Ascension at Hagood.

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• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8QL-YQB : 23 December 2020), Emma Sanders in household of Wm Sanders, Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZTN-XBW : 11 November 2020), Emma R Saunders in entry for William Saunders, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8RB-7JF : 3 January 2021), Emma Sanders in entry for William Sanders, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M569-W5Q : accessed 23 January 2021), Emma R Alston in household of William A Alston, Sumter, South Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 114, sheet 11A, family 183, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1465; FHL microfilm 1,375,478.
• 1920 United States Federal Census, Year: 1920; Census Place: Rafting, Sumter, South Carolina; Roll: T625_1712; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 141 , Ancestry.com Operations INc. (2010), 1920 Census
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 January 2021), memorial page for Emma Rebecca Sanders Alston (28 Feb 1846–4 May 1920), Find A Grave: Memorial #71818230, citing Episcopal Church of the Ascension Cemetery, Rembert, Sumter County, South Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Vikki (contributor 47528213) .