Nancy Jane Campbell

GEDCOM Note

ELI SANDERS was born ca 1798 in Virginia. He is first found in Lincoln Co., TN. and on 25 July, 1827, he mar NANCY JANE CAMPBELL in Madison Co., Al. (adjoining Lincoln Co., TN). She was dau of WILLIAM B. CAMPBELL and named in his will in 1855. By the time probate papers were filed on this will, Eli and Nancy were living in Itawambia Co., in an area which soon became part of Lee Co., Ms. Eli and Nancy had the following known ch: THOMAS A. SANDERS b. 1832 (mar LUCINDA WOODARD in 1869); JANE SANDERS, b. 1833 (mar 1st HAMPTON and 2nd GEORGE THOMAS BARNETT in1860); WILLIAM A. SANDERS, b. 1837; JOHN SANDERS, b. 1839; MARY A. ("Molly") SANDERS, 1842 AL-1935 Lee Co., MS (mar 1st ROBERT NANCE HORTON and 2nd ELI HOPKINS); SARA MARGARET SANDERS, b. 1844 died Oran, TX (mar FRANK M. BAILEY); and SUSAN ANN SANDERS (mar 1st JOHN A WOOLRIDGE and 2nd a THOMPSON). She died in OK. In her very old age, great grandmother Mary A. ( Molly") above had my father and another of her grandchildren take her to Aberdeen, Ms. to testify before the Indian Commission which was in session there, for the purpose of obtaining free land in Oklahoma for persons of Indian descent. A transcript of her testimony stated she had no concrete proof of her Indian claim but that a sister had obtained land and had taken the required papers with her when she went to Oklahoma. Grandma Molly did say that Eli Sanders' mother was an Indian woman, who died when he was small and that their father knew little of his family. Due partly to her age at that time and the vagueness of her testimony, I do know know how much this weighs against the sincerity of her belief that it was true.

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