Spouse William later married her sister Mary Hancock Saunders. He is buried in Louisville. Their daughter was Xantippe "Tip", a famous portrait painter. They were cousins of Mark Twain.
Mark Twain's parents once lived in Columbia in a cabin that stood where B.F. Chewning's house later stood.
Daughter Tip's Obituary:
December 12, 1922 Adair County News
Mark Twain's Cousin Dies
Miss Xantippe Saunders, 85, for many years one of the leading artist of this city, died at 10:45 o'clock last Tuesday morning at her home, 3128 Western Parkway. Miss Saunders first began her serious work as an artist under Professor Pering of Louisville, continuing her studies in New York under Professor Eaton and Professor Wilmorth. Later she was associated with Cornelia Pering, of this city for over twenty five years, the art school being known as Pering and Saunders.
She was a cousin of Mark Twain and possessed the same gifts of wit and humor with which he was endowed. While she outlived her most of her contemporaries, her cheerful, bright and optimistic disposition won for her a host of friends among the younger generation. She was known particularly for being a portrait painter.
After the funeral services the interment was in Cave Hill Cemetery.
*This section originally from the Louisville Herald
Miss Saunders was a native of Adair County, Ky, her mother being a Miss Hancock, and there are yet many of her relatives living in the surroundings of Columbia. She was a very popular young woman, and especially was a favorite of the young people of the community. She was a leader in social functions, and her company was eagerly sought.
Her father, Mr. William Saunders was a native of England, was a skilled penman was a schoolteacher by profession. He and another teacher, also an Englishman, Daniel Booty, came to Columbia at the same time, and entered upon this profession. It was in the Mt. Pleasant community he met and married Miss Hancock, the mother of Miss Tip. The mother died when Tip was a small girl and in a few years, married another Miss Hancock, sister of the deceased wife, who is also dead.
Near the Mt. Pleasant church Mr. Saunders erected an academy and received boarding pupils for a number of years. Tradition tells us that the late Judge Jas. Garnett, Gen. P.W. Bardin, deceased and Hon. W.F. Neat and many other men who became prominent, attended this school. When Mr. Saunders was about fifty years old, he accepted a position as bookkepper for a Louisville House and removed, with his daughter to that city. He did not remain in this position but a short time, resigning it to accept a position in Norton's Bank, which he held until his death, which occurred about twenty five years ago.
As an artist, Miss Saunders had but few equals. After receiving advantages in New York, she spent a year or two abroad.
A specimen of her work can be seen on the tom of Mrs. Prudie Lyon, the first wife of W.R. Lyon, in the Columbia cemetery. It is the deceased picture and is burned into the stone, the weather having no effect upon it.
The passing of this distinquished character removes from Kentucky one of her most distinquisted women, one whose memory will linger for ages.
Judge Junious of this place (Columbia) was a cousin of the deceased.
Mark Twain's parents once lived in Columbia in a cabin that stood where B.F. Chewning's house later stood.
Daughter Tip's Obituary:
December 12, 1922 Adair County News
Mark Twain's Cousin Dies
Miss Xantippe Saunders, 85, for many years one of the leading artist of this city, died at 10:45 o'clock last Tuesday morning at her home, 3128 Western Parkway. Miss Saunders first began her serious work as an artist under Professor Pering of Louisville, continuing her studies in New York under Professor Eaton and Professor Wilmorth. Later she was associated with Cornelia Pering, of this city for over twenty five years, the art school being known as Pering and Saunders.
She was a cousin of Mark Twain and possessed the same gifts of wit and humor with which he was endowed. While she outlived her most of her contemporaries, her cheerful, bright and optimistic disposition won for her a host of friends among the younger generation. She was known particularly for being a portrait painter.
After the funeral services the interment was in Cave Hill Cemetery.
*This section originally from the Louisville Herald
Miss Saunders was a native of Adair County, Ky, her mother being a Miss Hancock, and there are yet many of her relatives living in the surroundings of Columbia. She was a very popular young woman, and especially was a favorite of the young people of the community. She was a leader in social functions, and her company was eagerly sought.
Her father, Mr. William Saunders was a native of England, was a skilled penman was a schoolteacher by profession. He and another teacher, also an Englishman, Daniel Booty, came to Columbia at the same time, and entered upon this profession. It was in the Mt. Pleasant community he met and married Miss Hancock, the mother of Miss Tip. The mother died when Tip was a small girl and in a few years, married another Miss Hancock, sister of the deceased wife, who is also dead.
Near the Mt. Pleasant church Mr. Saunders erected an academy and received boarding pupils for a number of years. Tradition tells us that the late Judge Jas. Garnett, Gen. P.W. Bardin, deceased and Hon. W.F. Neat and many other men who became prominent, attended this school. When Mr. Saunders was about fifty years old, he accepted a position as bookkepper for a Louisville House and removed, with his daughter to that city. He did not remain in this position but a short time, resigning it to accept a position in Norton's Bank, which he held until his death, which occurred about twenty five years ago.
As an artist, Miss Saunders had but few equals. After receiving advantages in New York, she spent a year or two abroad.
A specimen of her work can be seen on the tom of Mrs. Prudie Lyon, the first wife of W.R. Lyon, in the Columbia cemetery. It is the deceased picture and is burned into the stone, the weather having no effect upon it.
The passing of this distinquished character removes from Kentucky one of her most distinquisted women, one whose memory will linger for ages.
Judge Junious of this place (Columbia) was a cousin of the deceased.
Spouse William later married her sister Mary Hancock Saunders. He is buried in Louisville. Their daughter was Xantippe "Tip", a famous portrait painter. They were cousins of Mark Twain.
Mark Twain's parents once lived in Columbia in a cabin that stood where B.F. Chewning's house later stood.
Daughter Tip's Obituary:
December 12, 1922 Adair County News
Mark Twain's Cousin Dies
Miss Xantippe Saunders, 85, for many years one of the leading artist of this city, died at 10:45 o'clock last Tuesday morning at her home, 3128 Western Parkway. Miss Saunders first began her serious work as an artist under Professor Pering of Louisville, continuing her studies in New York under Professor Eaton and Professor Wilmorth. Later she was associated with Cornelia Pering, of this city for over twenty five years, the art school being known as Pering and Saunders.
She was a cousin of Mark Twain and possessed the same gifts of wit and humor with which he was endowed. While she outlived her most of her contemporaries, her cheerful, bright and optimistic disposition won for her a host of friends among the younger generation. She was known particularly for being a portrait painter.
After the funeral services the interment was in Cave Hill Cemetery.
*This section originally from the Louisville Herald
Miss Saunders was a native of Adair County, Ky, her mother being a Miss Hancock, and there are yet many of her relatives living in the surroundings of Columbia. She was a very popular young woman, and especially was a favorite of the young people of the community. She was a leader in social functions, and her company was eagerly sought.
Her father, Mr. William Saunders was a native of England, was a skilled penman was a schoolteacher by profession. He and another teacher, also an Englishman, Daniel Booty, came to Columbia at the same time, and entered upon this profession. It was in the Mt. Pleasant community he met and married Miss Hancock, the mother of Miss Tip. The mother died when Tip was a small girl and in a few years, married another Miss Hancock, sister of the deceased wife, who is also dead.
Near the Mt. Pleasant church Mr. Saunders erected an academy and received boarding pupils for a number of years. Tradition tells us that the late Judge Jas. Garnett, Gen. P.W. Bardin, deceased and Hon. W.F. Neat and many other men who became prominent, attended this school. When Mr. Saunders was about fifty years old, he accepted a position as bookkepper for a Louisville House and removed, with his daughter to that city. He did not remain in this position but a short time, resigning it to accept a position in Norton's Bank, which he held until his death, which occurred about twenty five years ago.
As an artist, Miss Saunders had but few equals. After receiving advantages in New York, she spent a year or two abroad.
A specimen of her work can be seen on the tom of Mrs. Prudie Lyon, the first wife of W.R. Lyon, in the Columbia cemetery. It is the deceased picture and is burned into the stone, the weather having no effect upon it.
The passing of this distinquished character removes from Kentucky one of her most distinquisted women, one whose memory will linger for ages.
Judge Junious of this place (Columbia) was a cousin of the deceased.
Mark Twain's parents once lived in Columbia in a cabin that stood where B.F. Chewning's house later stood.
Daughter Tip's Obituary:
December 12, 1922 Adair County News
Mark Twain's Cousin Dies
Miss Xantippe Saunders, 85, for many years one of the leading artist of this city, died at 10:45 o'clock last Tuesday morning at her home, 3128 Western Parkway. Miss Saunders first began her serious work as an artist under Professor Pering of Louisville, continuing her studies in New York under Professor Eaton and Professor Wilmorth. Later she was associated with Cornelia Pering, of this city for over twenty five years, the art school being known as Pering and Saunders.
She was a cousin of Mark Twain and possessed the same gifts of wit and humor with which he was endowed. While she outlived her most of her contemporaries, her cheerful, bright and optimistic disposition won for her a host of friends among the younger generation. She was known particularly for being a portrait painter.
After the funeral services the interment was in Cave Hill Cemetery.
*This section originally from the Louisville Herald
Miss Saunders was a native of Adair County, Ky, her mother being a Miss Hancock, and there are yet many of her relatives living in the surroundings of Columbia. She was a very popular young woman, and especially was a favorite of the young people of the community. She was a leader in social functions, and her company was eagerly sought.
Her father, Mr. William Saunders was a native of England, was a skilled penman was a schoolteacher by profession. He and another teacher, also an Englishman, Daniel Booty, came to Columbia at the same time, and entered upon this profession. It was in the Mt. Pleasant community he met and married Miss Hancock, the mother of Miss Tip. The mother died when Tip was a small girl and in a few years, married another Miss Hancock, sister of the deceased wife, who is also dead.
Near the Mt. Pleasant church Mr. Saunders erected an academy and received boarding pupils for a number of years. Tradition tells us that the late Judge Jas. Garnett, Gen. P.W. Bardin, deceased and Hon. W.F. Neat and many other men who became prominent, attended this school. When Mr. Saunders was about fifty years old, he accepted a position as bookkepper for a Louisville House and removed, with his daughter to that city. He did not remain in this position but a short time, resigning it to accept a position in Norton's Bank, which he held until his death, which occurred about twenty five years ago.
As an artist, Miss Saunders had but few equals. After receiving advantages in New York, she spent a year or two abroad.
A specimen of her work can be seen on the tom of Mrs. Prudie Lyon, the first wife of W.R. Lyon, in the Columbia cemetery. It is the deceased picture and is burned into the stone, the weather having no effect upon it.
The passing of this distinquished character removes from Kentucky one of her most distinquisted women, one whose memory will linger for ages.
Judge Junious of this place (Columbia) was a cousin of the deceased.
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Daughter of Simon Hancock and Pamela Goggins.
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