Never Had Time To Carve His Own
Thomas Watkins Sanders, an aging artisan who had carved tombstones for many of his friends, never had a chance to carve one for himself.
He became an invalid five years ago. And at 8:25 Tuesday night, at Kennedy Veterans Hospital, died.
Services will be held at 11 this morning at Cosmopolitan Funeral Home. Dr. A. D. Foreman Jr. will officiate. Burial will be in National Cemetery.
Mr. Sanders had been a patient at the hospital a month. He was 61. He was born in Memphis, the son of a couple who had farmed near the site of his home at 1469 East Mallory. He lived here all his life, except for the time he spent in the Army as a sergeant in World War I.
He was an employe of several stone cutting firms, among them F. H. Venn & Co. His last job, before illness forced his retirement, was in the carpentry department of the wartime Memphis General Depot.
As a young man he was active in the Masonic Order, holding the 32nd Degree rank. He was an Episcopalian.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Florence Barrom Sanders, a former Memphis school teacher; a daughter, Mrs. James L. Halyard of Memphis; four brothers, M. L. Sanders and J. B. Sanders, both of Memphis, J. R. Sanders of Water Valley, Miss., and W. R. Sanders of Crenshaw, Miss.; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Hart and Mrs. Sarah Blalack, both of New Orleans, and granddaughter, Rebecca Anne Halyard of Memphis.
The Commercial Appeal
June 29, 1950
Never Had Time To Carve His Own
Thomas Watkins Sanders, an aging artisan who had carved tombstones for many of his friends, never had a chance to carve one for himself.
He became an invalid five years ago. And at 8:25 Tuesday night, at Kennedy Veterans Hospital, died.
Services will be held at 11 this morning at Cosmopolitan Funeral Home. Dr. A. D. Foreman Jr. will officiate. Burial will be in National Cemetery.
Mr. Sanders had been a patient at the hospital a month. He was 61. He was born in Memphis, the son of a couple who had farmed near the site of his home at 1469 East Mallory. He lived here all his life, except for the time he spent in the Army as a sergeant in World War I.
He was an employe of several stone cutting firms, among them F. H. Venn & Co. His last job, before illness forced his retirement, was in the carpentry department of the wartime Memphis General Depot.
As a young man he was active in the Masonic Order, holding the 32nd Degree rank. He was an Episcopalian.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Florence Barrom Sanders, a former Memphis school teacher; a daughter, Mrs. James L. Halyard of Memphis; four brothers, M. L. Sanders and J. B. Sanders, both of Memphis, J. R. Sanders of Water Valley, Miss., and W. R. Sanders of Crenshaw, Miss.; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Hart and Mrs. Sarah Blalack, both of New Orleans, and granddaughter, Rebecca Anne Halyard of Memphis.
The Commercial Appeal
June 29, 1950
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John Elzey Sanders Sr
1878–1951
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Estella B. "Stella, Estelle" Sanders Edwards
1880–1925
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Emma Bernice Sanders Crutcher
1881–1937
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Robert Washington Sanders
1884–1945
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Ollie Jesse Sanders
1887–1935
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Elizabeth "Lizzie" Sanders Hart
1890–1994
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Willietts Rufus Sanders
1892–1957
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Lillian E. Sanders
1896–1897
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John Booker Sanders
1898–1978
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Mark LaFayette Sanders
1899–1984
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Samuel Sanders
1901–1909
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Sara Alice "Sally" Sanders Blalack
1905–2000
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