From the Athens Daily Review, Athens, Henderson County, Texas, Thursday, May
12, 1938, p. 1:

JOHN T. SANDERS DIES; BURIAL TO BE ON FRIDAY

John T. Sanders, 76, resident of the Murchison community for the past
sixty-one years, died sometime Wednesday night. the well known and highly
respected citizen of Murchison was found dead in his bed at 6:00 o'clock
Thursday morning. Deceased was the father of Lee Sanders of Athens and a
brother of A. W. Sanders, Athens merchant.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the
First Baptist Church of Murchison. Rev. T. H. Irwin of Tyler and Rev. D. R.
Carlidge of Athens, both close friends of the deceased, will be asked to
conduct the services. Interment will be in the Red Hill cemetery.
Pall bearers named were: Eugene Webb, Delmas Sanders, Gurley Sanders,
Millard Sanders, [rest of line illegible].
Honorary pall bearers will be: Oran Scott, Ollie Wells, B. K. Barnes,
Walter Lewis, Percy Lewis, Clark Turner, Early Taylor, Will Dyer, John
Dyer, Clyde Simmons and Joe Harper.
John Taylor Sanders was born July 30, 1872, near Stephenville in Erath
county, but was brought to Henderson county in 1876 by his parents, the late
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Sanders who are buried in the Red Hill cemetery. Mrs.
John Sanders, the former Miss Lula Skipper, died at Murchison in 1901 and
lies buried in the Red Hill cemetery.
Mr. Sanders is survived by two sons, Lee Sanders of Athens and Carl
Sanders of Corsicana and one daughter, Mrs. Modest Taylor of Murchison. Two
brothers, A. W. Sanders, Athens, and J. J. Sanders, Murchison and one
sister, Mrs. Frank Carroll, Athens.

furnished by Gary Sanders

I copied this from the Athens Review dated 15 Sep 1932. He was buried in
 Tidmore Cemetery which is in Van Zandt Co.

John S. Edwards, 66, prominent farmer of the Shady Grove community where
 he had lived for the past thirty years, died suddenly shortly before midnight
 Sunday night. Members of the family found him dead in bed at about 11 o'clock
 when they went to the bedside after hearing him gasp for breath.
Mr. Edwards, suffering from a large carbunkle on his back, had been in ill
 health, but had been active about his farm, feeding some livestock on his farm
 shortly before dark Sunday evening. The cause of his death had not been
 determined this morning.
Although born in Louisiana, Mr. Edwards came to Texas at the age of ten and
 had spent the past 56 years farming in Navarro, Van Zandt and Henderson
 counties, living in the Shady Grove community in this county for the past
 thirty years. Funeral services were held at the Tidmore cemetery this
 afternoon.
The deceased is survived by his wife and ten children. The children
 include six daughters and four sons. They are: R. F. Edwards, Miss Dessie
 Edwards, Mrs. Jesse Dyer, Mrs. Maude Saylors, Mrs. Cora Voiles, E. B. Edwards,
 Mre. Delia Jones, H. H. Edwards, Mrs. Dannie Shaver, All of whom live in and
 near Murchison and G. R. Edwards of Troup.
Mr. Edwards was a member of the Baptist Church.
Submitted by Dale Sifford

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