Eugene M. Sanders

1860 - 1927  (67 years)

• Name	Eugene M. Sanders
  Born	1860	Monroe County, Mississippi, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	9 Jul 1927	Queens, Queens, New York, USA
  Person ID	I2012	Decker Family Tree
  Last Modified	11 Oct 2019

  
  

  Father	John Randolph Sanders,   b. 1823, Tuscumbia, Colbert, Alabama, USA ,   d. Oct 1868, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA  (Age 45 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Cornelia Susan Watlington,   b. 1838, Tennessee, USA ,   d. Oct 1868, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA  (Age 30 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	4 Jun 1857	Monroe County, Mississippi, USA
  Family ID	F711	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marion Elizabeth Speirs,   b. 30 Jul 1858, Columbus, Mississippi ,   d. 10 Mar 1948, College Point, Queens, New York, USA  (Age 89 years)
  Married	1882	Mississippi, USA
  Children	1. S. Sanders   2. D. Sanders
  Last Modified	11 Oct 2019
  Family ID	F715	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  When Eugene M. Saunders was born about 1860, in Monroe County, Mississippi, his father, John, was 37 and his mother, Cornelia, was 22. His father was a prominent artist whose exant work includes "Arabian Girl" "Madonna" and a self portrait. When he was about 7 years old, his family moved to Tennessee to live among some other family members. His parents contracted Yellow Fever and when he was 8 years old both parents died within a week of each other. He went back to Mississippi (where most of his family lived) and was living with his uncle, James Caswell Saunders and I presume he lived with him until adulthood. He married Marion Elizabeth Speirs in 1882 in Mississippi. They moved to Missouri where their two children were born, but by his late 20s they family lived in New York City where he was initially a clerk and then a bookkeeper and finally an accountant. He died on July 9, 1927, in Queens, New York, at the age of 67.