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- {geni:about_me} ===Thomas Jefferson Sanders
* Birth: 1860 - Praire County, AR
* Parents: Joel Washington Sanders, Mariah Sanders (born Covey)
* Siblings: William Daniel Sanders, Milton Monroe Sanders, Eliza Elizabeth Sanders, Joel Washington Sanders, Tinsley "patrick" Crutchfield Sanders, Tennesse Covey Epperson (born Sanders), Lafayette Lee Sanders, Mary J. Watkins (born Sanders), Sara Covey Shackleford (born Sanders)
* Wife: Columbia Cerena Sanders (born Roak)
* Wife: Dovie Sanders (born Mattox)
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[https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/2409755/person/150085169777/facts Ancestry.com tree comments]
Dovie married Thomas Jefferson Sanders/Saunders in 1892, and Thomas Jefferson Sanders/Saunders died in 1893. A few years after T.J.'s death Dovie married Tinsley Crutchfield Sanders, most likely in 1895. I believe that TJ Sanders/Saunders and Tinsley Crutchfield Sanders are brothers. That scenario fits with family stories from my father.
The children of Crutch Sanders and Nannie Bassham are Elton Joel, Helen Mariah, Thomas Milton (i.e. Daddy Jack, my grandfather), and Harland Sanders. Dovie raised them as her own even though they were step children.
Tinzley P Sanders is the natural child of Dovie and her first husband Thomas Jefferson Sanders, but after TJ's death, Tinzley C (Crutch) Sanders raised him as a son.
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===Sources
# 1860 US Federal Census. In household headed by Joel Sanders.
# 1870 US Federal Census. In household headed by Maria Sanders.
# 1880 US Federal Census. Farmer, in household headed by widow M. Sanders.
# 1884, June 22. Arkansas marriage license. To C.C. Roork.
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