alternate spelling: Saunders
obituary:
Confederate Veteran Dies
Norvell Douglass Saunders Answers Last Roll Call February 26
Norvell Douglass Saunders died February 26, 1911, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Cullen Douglass, near Gallatin. Mr. Saunders who was in his seventy-eighth year, was a native born Sumner countian. For a brief period he lived in Mississippi during which time he inlisted in the 176 Miss. Regiment and proved himself a soldier of true worth taking part in the first-general engagement at Mansasses Gap on the 21st of July 1861, in which battle he was severely wounded. While convalescing he rendered post service at Canton, Mississippi. Mr. Saunders was married in 1864 to Miss Emily A. Cantrell, a member of a noted pioneer family of Sumner County. His wife died in May, 1910. The following children survive: Mr. William Cantrell Saunders of Fort Worth, Texas; Mesdams I. M. Baker, John Baker, and Mrs. Cullem Douglass, all of this vicinity. Services were held at the residence of Mrs. Douglass by Rev. R. M. DuBose, Monday, after which a large conconse of relatives, neighbors and friend followed him to the place of interment in the Gallatin Cemetery. Comrades and members of his Bivouac stood round the open grave as the coffin was lowered to its final resting place, cassing a leaf of ever-green as a token of love and true effection.
(Thursday, March 2, 1911)
Obituary contributed by Linda Kasyan (#47047133) who cited her source as http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~providence/obit_index.htm
obituary:
Confederate Veteran Dies
Norvell Douglass Saunders Answers Last Roll Call February 26
Norvell Douglass Saunders died February 26, 1911, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Cullen Douglass, near Gallatin. Mr. Saunders who was in his seventy-eighth year, was a native born Sumner countian. For a brief period he lived in Mississippi during which time he inlisted in the 176 Miss. Regiment and proved himself a soldier of true worth taking part in the first-general engagement at Mansasses Gap on the 21st of July 1861, in which battle he was severely wounded. While convalescing he rendered post service at Canton, Mississippi. Mr. Saunders was married in 1864 to Miss Emily A. Cantrell, a member of a noted pioneer family of Sumner County. His wife died in May, 1910. The following children survive: Mr. William Cantrell Saunders of Fort Worth, Texas; Mesdams I. M. Baker, John Baker, and Mrs. Cullem Douglass, all of this vicinity. Services were held at the residence of Mrs. Douglass by Rev. R. M. DuBose, Monday, after which a large conconse of relatives, neighbors and friend followed him to the place of interment in the Gallatin Cemetery. Comrades and members of his Bivouac stood round the open grave as the coffin was lowered to its final resting place, cassing a leaf of ever-green as a token of love and true effection.
(Thursday, March 2, 1911)
Obituary contributed by Linda Kasyan (#47047133) who cited her source as http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~providence/obit_index.htm
alternate spelling: Saunders
obituary:
Confederate Veteran Dies
Norvell Douglass Saunders Answers Last Roll Call February 26
Norvell Douglass Saunders died February 26, 1911, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Cullen Douglass, near Gallatin. Mr. Saunders who was in his seventy-eighth year, was a native born Sumner countian. For a brief period he lived in Mississippi during which time he inlisted in the 176 Miss. Regiment and proved himself a soldier of true worth taking part in the first-general engagement at Mansasses Gap on the 21st of July 1861, in which battle he was severely wounded. While convalescing he rendered post service at Canton, Mississippi. Mr. Saunders was married in 1864 to Miss Emily A. Cantrell, a member of a noted pioneer family of Sumner County. His wife died in May, 1910. The following children survive: Mr. William Cantrell Saunders of Fort Worth, Texas; Mesdams I. M. Baker, John Baker, and Mrs. Cullem Douglass, all of this vicinity. Services were held at the residence of Mrs. Douglass by Rev. R. M. DuBose, Monday, after which a large conconse of relatives, neighbors and friend followed him to the place of interment in the Gallatin Cemetery. Comrades and members of his Bivouac stood round the open grave as the coffin was lowered to its final resting place, cassing a leaf of ever-green as a token of love and true effection.
(Thursday, March 2, 1911)
Obituary contributed by Linda Kasyan (#47047133) who cited her source as http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~providence/obit_index.htm
obituary:
Confederate Veteran Dies
Norvell Douglass Saunders Answers Last Roll Call February 26
Norvell Douglass Saunders died February 26, 1911, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Cullen Douglass, near Gallatin. Mr. Saunders who was in his seventy-eighth year, was a native born Sumner countian. For a brief period he lived in Mississippi during which time he inlisted in the 176 Miss. Regiment and proved himself a soldier of true worth taking part in the first-general engagement at Mansasses Gap on the 21st of July 1861, in which battle he was severely wounded. While convalescing he rendered post service at Canton, Mississippi. Mr. Saunders was married in 1864 to Miss Emily A. Cantrell, a member of a noted pioneer family of Sumner County. His wife died in May, 1910. The following children survive: Mr. William Cantrell Saunders of Fort Worth, Texas; Mesdams I. M. Baker, John Baker, and Mrs. Cullem Douglass, all of this vicinity. Services were held at the residence of Mrs. Douglass by Rev. R. M. DuBose, Monday, after which a large conconse of relatives, neighbors and friend followed him to the place of interment in the Gallatin Cemetery. Comrades and members of his Bivouac stood round the open grave as the coffin was lowered to its final resting place, cassing a leaf of ever-green as a token of love and true effection.
(Thursday, March 2, 1911)
Obituary contributed by Linda Kasyan (#47047133) who cited her source as http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~providence/obit_index.htm
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