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Simeon Adell Sanders

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Simeon Adell Sanders

Birth
Onslow County, North Carolina, USA
Death
26 Jan 1974 (aged 84)
Onslow County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Padgett, Onslow County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Adell grew up and lived in a time where the nearest neighbors might be ten miles away but they all helped each other going from farm to farm. He was a man who loved his family and treated his friends with the respect they deserved. Being a farmer he attended the meetings of The FFA. In those days he hunted deer to go along with the pigs or cows or chickens he raised on the farm to provide meat for his family. He kept a smoke house for curing meat and a hole in the ground for keeping potatoes and such from spoiling. He was a Sharecropper for many years, starting around Stump Sound where he could in addition to farming, catch seafood. That, like all good things, ended when Camp Lejeune Military Base decided to expand and purchased the land where he and many others had their homes. In 1937 he moved his family To Maple Hill on a farm that his wife Lizzie inherited. Later the Military base decided to expand again and this time taking the very ground where his family cemetery was located. Camp Lejeune moved our loved ones and headstones across the road where it is still located today and there stands a single stone that reads "37 unknown". In the 1800's and earlier they often used wooden crosses which had apparently disintegrated. Eventually after his last two sons were born he and his wife Lizzie built a new three bedroom one bath home where he lived out the rest of his life. He was a fair man and would give you anything he had if he thought you needed it, but whoa to the person who thought it ok to take anything from him without asking! He is still missed by those of us who loved and knew him best.
Adell grew up and lived in a time where the nearest neighbors might be ten miles away but they all helped each other going from farm to farm. He was a man who loved his family and treated his friends with the respect they deserved. Being a farmer he attended the meetings of The FFA. In those days he hunted deer to go along with the pigs or cows or chickens he raised on the farm to provide meat for his family. He kept a smoke house for curing meat and a hole in the ground for keeping potatoes and such from spoiling. He was a Sharecropper for many years, starting around Stump Sound where he could in addition to farming, catch seafood. That, like all good things, ended when Camp Lejeune Military Base decided to expand and purchased the land where he and many others had their homes. In 1937 he moved his family To Maple Hill on a farm that his wife Lizzie inherited. Later the Military base decided to expand again and this time taking the very ground where his family cemetery was located. Camp Lejeune moved our loved ones and headstones across the road where it is still located today and there stands a single stone that reads "37 unknown". In the 1800's and earlier they often used wooden crosses which had apparently disintegrated. Eventually after his last two sons were born he and his wife Lizzie built a new three bedroom one bath home where he lived out the rest of his life. He was a fair man and would give you anything he had if he thought you needed it, but whoa to the person who thought it ok to take anything from him without asking! He is still missed by those of us who loved and knew him best.

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