Benjamin
James
(Ben)
Saunders
Born in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, Bahamas
Ancestors 
Brother of
Eugenia Maud Saunders, Juanita Jane (Saunders) Taylor, Gilbert Robinson Saunders, Lorrie Mabel (Saunders) Roberts and Bessie Viola (Saunders) Lowe
Husband of
[private wife (1900s - 1960s)]
Husband of
Mabel Lenora (Lowe) Beccaise
— married
25 Mar 1900 in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, Bahamas
Descendants 
Father of
Everett Benjamin Saunders, [private son (1920s - unknown)], Libby Saunders and Thalia Minerva (Saunders) Lowe
Died
at age 73
in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, Bahamas
Profile last modified
| Created 20 Apr 2015
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Ben Saunders is part of a Bahamian family.
Biography
Benjamin James "Ben" Saunders was born in 1879 in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, Bahamas to Jimmy Saunders and Lyddie Sweeting.
Ben Saunders married twice: first, 25 March 1900, in Green Turtle Cay, to Mabel Lenora "Mae" Lowe, daughter of Jabez Austin Lowe; and second, about 1920, to Olive Minerva Sawyer, daughter of Samuel Horace Sawyer and Minerva Beatrice Lowe Sawyer.
Ben and Mae Saunders had a son, Everett Benjamin (William Everett) Saunders, born 4 July 1900 at Green Turtle Cay. Olive Minerva and Ben Saunders had children Libby Melvina, Hilda Elizabeth, Thalia Minerva, Benjamin James, and Robert Irvin/Irwin Saunders. [Another daughter born 1933?]
Benjamin James Saunders, farmer, died 11 September 1953 in Green Turtle Cay at 73 years of age. He is buried there in the cemetery at New Plymouth.
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Sources
Bahamas Births, 1850-1891. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. Father: James Saunders; Mother: Lydia Sweeting; FHL Film Number: 222944; Reference ID: 120.
"Bahamas Civil Registration, 1850-1959", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDZ-7BB7 : 3 August 2015), James Benjamin Saunders and Leonara Mabel Lowe, 1900.
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 for James Benjamin Saunders, South Carolina, Charleston County, Draft Card, S.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ben 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:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ben 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:
- Charles Saunders
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup I-M223, FTDNA kit #115338, MitoYDNA ID T15862 [compare] - James Saunders :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup I-M223, FTDNA kit #124099, MitoYDNA ID T17288 [compare]
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~0.78%
Edmund Wright :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A356521 [compare], Ancestry member Rustywright32
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Irene (Lowe) Payne :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T829035 [compare], FTDNA kit #310477
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~0.78%
Martha (Wallace) Judge :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T246819 [compare], FTDNA kit #647238
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~0.78%
Charles Lowe :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T140927 [compare], FTDNA kit #542045
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~0.78%
Pamela Lowe :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #808399
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Mary (Roberts) Wilson :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch CT7230311 [compare], FTDNA kit #978252
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Charles Roberts :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch DD7815059 [compare], FTDNA kit #458575
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