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Home in 1880: Brooklyn, Conecuh, Alabama Isaac M. Sanders 30 , Ga Selina Sanders 26, AL James
Sanders 7, AL John Sanders 5, AL Shelby Sanders 3, AL Hubert Sanders 11M, AL William Perdue
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Title: Memorial record of Alabama : a concise account of the state's political, military,
professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people. City
of Publication: Madison, Wis. Publisher: Brant & Fuller Date: 1893
Few planters in southern
Alabama are as widely known as Isaac M Sanders, one of the intelligent and representative men of Conecuh
county. His parents were James N. and Nancy Jane Sanders, the father a native of Georgia, born in Jones
county, in the year 1822. He was a leading farmer of Pike county, Ala., to which part of the state
he removed with is father, Isaac Sanders, about the year 1853, and is remembered as a man of excellent
moral character, of whom it has been said, by those who knew him best, that a better farmer and more
scrupulously honest and upright citizen it was never their fortune to meet. In 1844, in the state of
Georgia, he married Nancy Sledge, and in 1852 moved to Pike county, Ala., where Mrs. Sanders died, in
1859. She bore her husband four children, namely: Amos A., Isaac M., Thomas S., and Mary A. Mrs. Sanders?
second marriage was solemnized, in 1861, with Mrs. Perdue, and she also became the mother of four children,
whose names are as follows: Amanda J., wife of James C. Shirley; James Alice, wife of Dr. William
Eiland; Elizabeth Victoria, wife of Samuel Casey, ad Stephen W., who resides with his widowed mother
at Troy, Ala. Mr. Sanders dies full of years and honors and greatly lamented by a large circle of relative
and friends, in November, 1890. Isaac M. Sanders was born November 2, 1849, in Upson County, Ga., and
at the age of three years was brought by his parents to Alabama, of which state he has since been a
resident. His educational training embraced the common school course, and at the age of twenty he began
his life work as an agriculturist, which he has since followed with success such as few planters attain.
After his marriage, which was consummated December 20, 1871, with Mary S. Perdue, he followed his chosen
calling for three years in Pike county, and in 1875 moved to his present large plantation, consisting
of 1,500 acres, two miles northwest of Brooklyn, where he has since resided. In addition to his farming
interests, Mr. Sanders is also connected with the timber business of Conecuh county, being principal
member of the J. M. Sanders milling firm, which owns a large mill on Indigo creek, south of Brooklyn,
where square timber is manufactured on an extensive scale. Mrs. Sanders, a most estimable lady, is
a daughter of Jalus and Alvira Perdue, and was born and raised in Pike county, Ala. She has borne her
husband six children, namely; James Jalus, John A., Shelby B., Hillary Hubbard, Amos B., and Capt. Monroe.
Mr. Sanders is notable example of the successful self-made made man. He began the struggle of life
without a dollar of his own, but the school of adversity, in which his early life was invigorated, proved
an experience which in after years enabled him to overcome discouraging obstacles and wring success,
from that which to many a man of less firm purpose would have proved defeat. All of his business transactions
are dictated by shrewd common sense and a correct judgment that seems to be inborn and intuitive, and
he impresses those with whom he comes in contact as a man of more than ordinary intelligence and sagacity.
His family of manly boys, whom he is raising to practical work, and educating with unstinted purse,
would be a credit to any father, and right proud is he in the reflection of the good name inherited
from a noble ancestry will, in no wise, suffer by the injudicious action of any of his children. In
politics, Mr. Sanders is a democrat, and in religion a Baptist.
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