Jacob Saunders was born about 1760. We do not know the exact year but since he had a son who was born May 17, 1780, he was probably at least nineteen years old when he married. That marriage to his wife Mary was probably in the fall of 1779. Later census records show she was born in the year 1760.
Although one may find many family trees that give Jacob's full name as "Jacob Henry Saunders," no document in his lifetime refers to him by any given name other than "Jacob." Nor is there any authentic family tradition, so far as I can tell, that refers to him as "Jacob Henry," though it appears he did have a descendant who was known as "Jacob Henry."
That his father was named Isaac Saunders is known from a letter written in the 1890s by Jacob's first cousin once removed, Thomas Bailey Saunders, to one of Jacob's grandsons, Elkanah Shuford Saunders. Thomas Bailey Saunders was born in 1817 and stated that as a child he had once met his very elderly great uncle, Isaac, who must have been in his late eighties at the time.
In the same letter, we are informed that Isaac was the "first man to ever build a house on Cross Creek below Fayetteville." Since the village of Cross Creek was founded about 1757, Isaac's son Jacob was probably born near Cross Creek, which is in Cumberland County.
By 1780 Isaac had moved his family to the area of Cumberland County that would later become Moore County. He owned a grist mill there but sold the land shortly thereafter and by 1782 he appears on the tax rolls of Montgomery County, where his brothers, the Reverend Moses Sanders and William Aaron Saunders,had owned land since the early 1770s. By the 1790s Isaac had moved to Randolph County where he is enumerated on the 1800 census. As in Moore County, he built a grist mill in Randolph County.
Jacob, apparently remained in Montgomery County after his father moved to Randolph, though Jacob may also have have lived in Randolph County for a while. In 1779 Jacob married a young woman named Mary and they had at least eleven children. Mary's maiden name is unknown but the 1850 and 1860 census states that she was born in North Carolina.
Jacob was a skilled carpenter, woodworker, and cabinet maker who made hope chests for each of his daughters. One of these hope chests is still in the possession of one of his descendants; at least this was reported to be the case in the 1970s. A peaked cupboard believed to have been designed by Jacob or craftsmen working under his direction is on display at the Old Salem Museum and Gardens in Winston, Salem, North Carolina.
Joe Thompson of Raleigh, North Carolina, a descendant of Jacob's uncle, William Aaron Saunders, has done extensive work on the land records of northern Montgomery County where the Sanders family lived during and after the American Revolution. His work gives us the locations of the tracts of land owned by Jacob Saunders:
"I have copies from North Carolina land grant file warrant 6770. One document is an order to survey 100 acres for Jacob Sanders adjoining his own land, Steeds, and John Neals and is dated 10th November 1810. There is a survey in the noted to be "Survey for the Heirs of Jacob Sanders, the 10th of November, 1820.I have copies from warrant 7700 with an order to survey for Jacob Sanders dated 9th day of July,1817 and a survey dated the 9th of September for Jacob Sanders.Based on these documents, I think it is safe to assume Jacob died between September 1817 and November 1820. These files are in the NC Archives."
Here are some of the tracts that Jacob owned near the village of Immer in northeast Montgomery County:
Tract 10—Jacob Saunders land grant in 1808. It was adjoining the land of Jacob's aunt, the widow Joanah Bailey Saunders. It was to the north of Horseshoe Bend Road and Lovejoy Road.
Tract 11 was entered about 1810 and was surveyed for the heirs of Jacob Sanders in 1820. It was surveyed in 1851 and granted to Allen H. Bean who married Jacob's granddaughter, Elizabeth Saunders, daughter of Jacob's son Henry.
Tract 9 surveyed in 1817, the southwest corner adjoined the land of Jacob's son Jesse.
As Joe Thompson explains, the date of the grant from the state is not always the date the land was first acquired. Often, land owners granted land to heirs without requesting a patent from the state. It is therefore somewhat difficult to assess the extent of Jacob's land holdings during his lifetime.
An 1830 deed concerning a division of land among the heirs of Jacob and his widow Mary is helpful in identifying the children of Jacob. The following list is based on that deed and other records.
Children of JACOB SAUNDERS and MARY are:
JESSE SANDERS, b. May 17, 1780, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1839, Lawrence County, Tennessee.
PHEBE SANDERS, b. 1785, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Bet. 1850 - 1860, Jackson County, Alabama.
ISRAEL SAUNDERS, b. 1788, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Bet. 1860 - 1870, Randolph County, North Carolina.
ANNA SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1790, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1830.
MARGARET PEGGY SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1794, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Bet. 1870 - 1877, Montgomery County, North Carolina.
JACOB L SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1796, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. February 17, 1864, Montgomery County, North Carolina.
REBECCA SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1798, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1830; m. THOMAS ADAMS, August 15, 1816, Randolph County, North Carolina; b. Abt. 1795, North Carolina.
SAMPSON SAUNDERS, b. January 17, 1801, Randolph County, North Carolina; d. July 15, 1864, Montgomery County , North Carolina.
DEBORAH SAUNDERS, b. March 07, 1803, Montgomery or Randolph County, North Carolina; d. Abt. 1854, Jackson County, Alabama.
MARY SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1805, Montgomery or Randolph County, North Carolina.
HENRY SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1808, Montgomery or Randolph County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1885, Montgomery County, North Carolina.
Jacob Saunders of Montgomery County should not be confused with the Jacob Saunders of Rowan County. Jacob Saunders of Rowan had a different wife (Lidiah Lunsford) and different children, though both men had a daughter named Mary. Someone has linked the Find-a-Grave memorial for Mary Sanders who married John Watson Archer to Jacob Saunders and Mary Saunders of Randolph County. Jacob and Mary of Randolph had a daughter named Mary, but she did not marry John Watson Archer.
The burial site of Jacob Saunders of Randolph County is believed to be in an abandoned family cemetery on one of the original Jacob Saunders land grants which consisted of sites within the area now bounded by Horseshoe Bend Road, Lovejoy Road, and Flint Hill Road in northeast Montgomery County. Joe Thompson, who once owned land that belonged to Jacob, located the site of this cemetery on the property. The graves of Jacob and his wife Mary are believed to be here, though no headstones are currently readable.
Jacob Saunders was my second great grand-uncle.
--Gary B. Sanders
Although one may find many family trees that give Jacob's full name as "Jacob Henry Saunders," no document in his lifetime refers to him by any given name other than "Jacob." Nor is there any authentic family tradition, so far as I can tell, that refers to him as "Jacob Henry," though it appears he did have a descendant who was known as "Jacob Henry."
That his father was named Isaac Saunders is known from a letter written in the 1890s by Jacob's first cousin once removed, Thomas Bailey Saunders, to one of Jacob's grandsons, Elkanah Shuford Saunders. Thomas Bailey Saunders was born in 1817 and stated that as a child he had once met his very elderly great uncle, Isaac, who must have been in his late eighties at the time.
In the same letter, we are informed that Isaac was the "first man to ever build a house on Cross Creek below Fayetteville." Since the village of Cross Creek was founded about 1757, Isaac's son Jacob was probably born near Cross Creek, which is in Cumberland County.
By 1780 Isaac had moved his family to the area of Cumberland County that would later become Moore County. He owned a grist mill there but sold the land shortly thereafter and by 1782 he appears on the tax rolls of Montgomery County, where his brothers, the Reverend Moses Sanders and William Aaron Saunders,had owned land since the early 1770s. By the 1790s Isaac had moved to Randolph County where he is enumerated on the 1800 census. As in Moore County, he built a grist mill in Randolph County.
Jacob, apparently remained in Montgomery County after his father moved to Randolph, though Jacob may also have have lived in Randolph County for a while. In 1779 Jacob married a young woman named Mary and they had at least eleven children. Mary's maiden name is unknown but the 1850 and 1860 census states that she was born in North Carolina.
Jacob was a skilled carpenter, woodworker, and cabinet maker who made hope chests for each of his daughters. One of these hope chests is still in the possession of one of his descendants; at least this was reported to be the case in the 1970s. A peaked cupboard believed to have been designed by Jacob or craftsmen working under his direction is on display at the Old Salem Museum and Gardens in Winston, Salem, North Carolina.
Joe Thompson of Raleigh, North Carolina, a descendant of Jacob's uncle, William Aaron Saunders, has done extensive work on the land records of northern Montgomery County where the Sanders family lived during and after the American Revolution. His work gives us the locations of the tracts of land owned by Jacob Saunders:
"I have copies from North Carolina land grant file warrant 6770. One document is an order to survey 100 acres for Jacob Sanders adjoining his own land, Steeds, and John Neals and is dated 10th November 1810. There is a survey in the noted to be "Survey for the Heirs of Jacob Sanders, the 10th of November, 1820.I have copies from warrant 7700 with an order to survey for Jacob Sanders dated 9th day of July,1817 and a survey dated the 9th of September for Jacob Sanders.Based on these documents, I think it is safe to assume Jacob died between September 1817 and November 1820. These files are in the NC Archives."
Here are some of the tracts that Jacob owned near the village of Immer in northeast Montgomery County:
Tract 10—Jacob Saunders land grant in 1808. It was adjoining the land of Jacob's aunt, the widow Joanah Bailey Saunders. It was to the north of Horseshoe Bend Road and Lovejoy Road.
Tract 11 was entered about 1810 and was surveyed for the heirs of Jacob Sanders in 1820. It was surveyed in 1851 and granted to Allen H. Bean who married Jacob's granddaughter, Elizabeth Saunders, daughter of Jacob's son Henry.
Tract 9 surveyed in 1817, the southwest corner adjoined the land of Jacob's son Jesse.
As Joe Thompson explains, the date of the grant from the state is not always the date the land was first acquired. Often, land owners granted land to heirs without requesting a patent from the state. It is therefore somewhat difficult to assess the extent of Jacob's land holdings during his lifetime.
An 1830 deed concerning a division of land among the heirs of Jacob and his widow Mary is helpful in identifying the children of Jacob. The following list is based on that deed and other records.
Children of JACOB SAUNDERS and MARY are:
JESSE SANDERS, b. May 17, 1780, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1839, Lawrence County, Tennessee.
PHEBE SANDERS, b. 1785, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Bet. 1850 - 1860, Jackson County, Alabama.
ISRAEL SAUNDERS, b. 1788, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Bet. 1860 - 1870, Randolph County, North Carolina.
ANNA SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1790, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1830.
MARGARET PEGGY SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1794, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Bet. 1870 - 1877, Montgomery County, North Carolina.
JACOB L SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1796, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. February 17, 1864, Montgomery County, North Carolina.
REBECCA SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1798, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1830; m. THOMAS ADAMS, August 15, 1816, Randolph County, North Carolina; b. Abt. 1795, North Carolina.
SAMPSON SAUNDERS, b. January 17, 1801, Randolph County, North Carolina; d. July 15, 1864, Montgomery County , North Carolina.
DEBORAH SAUNDERS, b. March 07, 1803, Montgomery or Randolph County, North Carolina; d. Abt. 1854, Jackson County, Alabama.
MARY SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1805, Montgomery or Randolph County, North Carolina.
HENRY SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1808, Montgomery or Randolph County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1885, Montgomery County, North Carolina.
Jacob Saunders of Montgomery County should not be confused with the Jacob Saunders of Rowan County. Jacob Saunders of Rowan had a different wife (Lidiah Lunsford) and different children, though both men had a daughter named Mary. Someone has linked the Find-a-Grave memorial for Mary Sanders who married John Watson Archer to Jacob Saunders and Mary Saunders of Randolph County. Jacob and Mary of Randolph had a daughter named Mary, but she did not marry John Watson Archer.
The burial site of Jacob Saunders of Randolph County is believed to be in an abandoned family cemetery on one of the original Jacob Saunders land grants which consisted of sites within the area now bounded by Horseshoe Bend Road, Lovejoy Road, and Flint Hill Road in northeast Montgomery County. Joe Thompson, who once owned land that belonged to Jacob, located the site of this cemetery on the property. The graves of Jacob and his wife Mary are believed to be here, though no headstones are currently readable.
Jacob Saunders was my second great grand-uncle.
--Gary B. Sanders
Jacob Saunders was born about 1760. We do not know the exact year but since he had a son who was born May 17, 1780, he was probably at least nineteen years old when he married. That marriage to his wife Mary was probably in the fall of 1779. Later census records show she was born in the year 1760.
Although one may find many family trees that give Jacob's full name as "Jacob Henry Saunders," no document in his lifetime refers to him by any given name other than "Jacob." Nor is there any authentic family tradition, so far as I can tell, that refers to him as "Jacob Henry," though it appears he did have a descendant who was known as "Jacob Henry."
That his father was named Isaac Saunders is known from a letter written in the 1890s by Jacob's first cousin once removed, Thomas Bailey Saunders, to one of Jacob's grandsons, Elkanah Shuford Saunders. Thomas Bailey Saunders was born in 1817 and stated that as a child he had once met his very elderly great uncle, Isaac, who must have been in his late eighties at the time.
In the same letter, we are informed that Isaac was the "first man to ever build a house on Cross Creek below Fayetteville." Since the village of Cross Creek was founded about 1757, Isaac's son Jacob was probably born near Cross Creek, which is in Cumberland County.
By 1780 Isaac had moved his family to the area of Cumberland County that would later become Moore County. He owned a grist mill there but sold the land shortly thereafter and by 1782 he appears on the tax rolls of Montgomery County, where his brothers, the Reverend Moses Sanders and William Aaron Saunders,had owned land since the early 1770s. By the 1790s Isaac had moved to Randolph County where he is enumerated on the 1800 census. As in Moore County, he built a grist mill in Randolph County.
Jacob, apparently remained in Montgomery County after his father moved to Randolph, though Jacob may also have have lived in Randolph County for a while. In 1779 Jacob married a young woman named Mary and they had at least eleven children. Mary's maiden name is unknown but the 1850 and 1860 census states that she was born in North Carolina.
Jacob was a skilled carpenter, woodworker, and cabinet maker who made hope chests for each of his daughters. One of these hope chests is still in the possession of one of his descendants; at least this was reported to be the case in the 1970s. A peaked cupboard believed to have been designed by Jacob or craftsmen working under his direction is on display at the Old Salem Museum and Gardens in Winston, Salem, North Carolina.
Joe Thompson of Raleigh, North Carolina, a descendant of Jacob's uncle, William Aaron Saunders, has done extensive work on the land records of northern Montgomery County where the Sanders family lived during and after the American Revolution. His work gives us the locations of the tracts of land owned by Jacob Saunders:
"I have copies from North Carolina land grant file warrant 6770. One document is an order to survey 100 acres for Jacob Sanders adjoining his own land, Steeds, and John Neals and is dated 10th November 1810. There is a survey in the noted to be "Survey for the Heirs of Jacob Sanders, the 10th of November, 1820.I have copies from warrant 7700 with an order to survey for Jacob Sanders dated 9th day of July,1817 and a survey dated the 9th of September for Jacob Sanders.Based on these documents, I think it is safe to assume Jacob died between September 1817 and November 1820. These files are in the NC Archives."
Here are some of the tracts that Jacob owned near the village of Immer in northeast Montgomery County:
Tract 10—Jacob Saunders land grant in 1808. It was adjoining the land of Jacob's aunt, the widow Joanah Bailey Saunders. It was to the north of Horseshoe Bend Road and Lovejoy Road.
Tract 11 was entered about 1810 and was surveyed for the heirs of Jacob Sanders in 1820. It was surveyed in 1851 and granted to Allen H. Bean who married Jacob's granddaughter, Elizabeth Saunders, daughter of Jacob's son Henry.
Tract 9 surveyed in 1817, the southwest corner adjoined the land of Jacob's son Jesse.
As Joe Thompson explains, the date of the grant from the state is not always the date the land was first acquired. Often, land owners granted land to heirs without requesting a patent from the state. It is therefore somewhat difficult to assess the extent of Jacob's land holdings during his lifetime.
An 1830 deed concerning a division of land among the heirs of Jacob and his widow Mary is helpful in identifying the children of Jacob. The following list is based on that deed and other records.
Children of JACOB SAUNDERS and MARY are:
JESSE SANDERS, b. May 17, 1780, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1839, Lawrence County, Tennessee.
PHEBE SANDERS, b. 1785, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Bet. 1850 - 1860, Jackson County, Alabama.
ISRAEL SAUNDERS, b. 1788, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Bet. 1860 - 1870, Randolph County, North Carolina.
ANNA SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1790, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1830.
MARGARET PEGGY SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1794, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Bet. 1870 - 1877, Montgomery County, North Carolina.
JACOB L SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1796, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. February 17, 1864, Montgomery County, North Carolina.
REBECCA SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1798, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1830; m. THOMAS ADAMS, August 15, 1816, Randolph County, North Carolina; b. Abt. 1795, North Carolina.
SAMPSON SAUNDERS, b. January 17, 1801, Randolph County, North Carolina; d. July 15, 1864, Montgomery County , North Carolina.
DEBORAH SAUNDERS, b. March 07, 1803, Montgomery or Randolph County, North Carolina; d. Abt. 1854, Jackson County, Alabama.
MARY SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1805, Montgomery or Randolph County, North Carolina.
HENRY SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1808, Montgomery or Randolph County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1885, Montgomery County, North Carolina.
Jacob Saunders of Montgomery County should not be confused with the Jacob Saunders of Rowan County. Jacob Saunders of Rowan had a different wife (Lidiah Lunsford) and different children, though both men had a daughter named Mary. Someone has linked the Find-a-Grave memorial for Mary Sanders who married John Watson Archer to Jacob Saunders and Mary Saunders of Randolph County. Jacob and Mary of Randolph had a daughter named Mary, but she did not marry John Watson Archer.
The burial site of Jacob Saunders of Randolph County is believed to be in an abandoned family cemetery on one of the original Jacob Saunders land grants which consisted of sites within the area now bounded by Horseshoe Bend Road, Lovejoy Road, and Flint Hill Road in northeast Montgomery County. Joe Thompson, who once owned land that belonged to Jacob, located the site of this cemetery on the property. The graves of Jacob and his wife Mary are believed to be here, though no headstones are currently readable.
Jacob Saunders was my second great grand-uncle.
--Gary B. Sanders
Although one may find many family trees that give Jacob's full name as "Jacob Henry Saunders," no document in his lifetime refers to him by any given name other than "Jacob." Nor is there any authentic family tradition, so far as I can tell, that refers to him as "Jacob Henry," though it appears he did have a descendant who was known as "Jacob Henry."
That his father was named Isaac Saunders is known from a letter written in the 1890s by Jacob's first cousin once removed, Thomas Bailey Saunders, to one of Jacob's grandsons, Elkanah Shuford Saunders. Thomas Bailey Saunders was born in 1817 and stated that as a child he had once met his very elderly great uncle, Isaac, who must have been in his late eighties at the time.
In the same letter, we are informed that Isaac was the "first man to ever build a house on Cross Creek below Fayetteville." Since the village of Cross Creek was founded about 1757, Isaac's son Jacob was probably born near Cross Creek, which is in Cumberland County.
By 1780 Isaac had moved his family to the area of Cumberland County that would later become Moore County. He owned a grist mill there but sold the land shortly thereafter and by 1782 he appears on the tax rolls of Montgomery County, where his brothers, the Reverend Moses Sanders and William Aaron Saunders,had owned land since the early 1770s. By the 1790s Isaac had moved to Randolph County where he is enumerated on the 1800 census. As in Moore County, he built a grist mill in Randolph County.
Jacob, apparently remained in Montgomery County after his father moved to Randolph, though Jacob may also have have lived in Randolph County for a while. In 1779 Jacob married a young woman named Mary and they had at least eleven children. Mary's maiden name is unknown but the 1850 and 1860 census states that she was born in North Carolina.
Jacob was a skilled carpenter, woodworker, and cabinet maker who made hope chests for each of his daughters. One of these hope chests is still in the possession of one of his descendants; at least this was reported to be the case in the 1970s. A peaked cupboard believed to have been designed by Jacob or craftsmen working under his direction is on display at the Old Salem Museum and Gardens in Winston, Salem, North Carolina.
Joe Thompson of Raleigh, North Carolina, a descendant of Jacob's uncle, William Aaron Saunders, has done extensive work on the land records of northern Montgomery County where the Sanders family lived during and after the American Revolution. His work gives us the locations of the tracts of land owned by Jacob Saunders:
"I have copies from North Carolina land grant file warrant 6770. One document is an order to survey 100 acres for Jacob Sanders adjoining his own land, Steeds, and John Neals and is dated 10th November 1810. There is a survey in the noted to be "Survey for the Heirs of Jacob Sanders, the 10th of November, 1820.I have copies from warrant 7700 with an order to survey for Jacob Sanders dated 9th day of July,1817 and a survey dated the 9th of September for Jacob Sanders.Based on these documents, I think it is safe to assume Jacob died between September 1817 and November 1820. These files are in the NC Archives."
Here are some of the tracts that Jacob owned near the village of Immer in northeast Montgomery County:
Tract 10—Jacob Saunders land grant in 1808. It was adjoining the land of Jacob's aunt, the widow Joanah Bailey Saunders. It was to the north of Horseshoe Bend Road and Lovejoy Road.
Tract 11 was entered about 1810 and was surveyed for the heirs of Jacob Sanders in 1820. It was surveyed in 1851 and granted to Allen H. Bean who married Jacob's granddaughter, Elizabeth Saunders, daughter of Jacob's son Henry.
Tract 9 surveyed in 1817, the southwest corner adjoined the land of Jacob's son Jesse.
As Joe Thompson explains, the date of the grant from the state is not always the date the land was first acquired. Often, land owners granted land to heirs without requesting a patent from the state. It is therefore somewhat difficult to assess the extent of Jacob's land holdings during his lifetime.
An 1830 deed concerning a division of land among the heirs of Jacob and his widow Mary is helpful in identifying the children of Jacob. The following list is based on that deed and other records.
Children of JACOB SAUNDERS and MARY are:
JESSE SANDERS, b. May 17, 1780, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1839, Lawrence County, Tennessee.
PHEBE SANDERS, b. 1785, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Bet. 1850 - 1860, Jackson County, Alabama.
ISRAEL SAUNDERS, b. 1788, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Bet. 1860 - 1870, Randolph County, North Carolina.
ANNA SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1790, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1830.
MARGARET PEGGY SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1794, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Bet. 1870 - 1877, Montgomery County, North Carolina.
JACOB L SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1796, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. February 17, 1864, Montgomery County, North Carolina.
REBECCA SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1798, Montgomery County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1830; m. THOMAS ADAMS, August 15, 1816, Randolph County, North Carolina; b. Abt. 1795, North Carolina.
SAMPSON SAUNDERS, b. January 17, 1801, Randolph County, North Carolina; d. July 15, 1864, Montgomery County , North Carolina.
DEBORAH SAUNDERS, b. March 07, 1803, Montgomery or Randolph County, North Carolina; d. Abt. 1854, Jackson County, Alabama.
MARY SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1805, Montgomery or Randolph County, North Carolina.
HENRY SAUNDERS, b. Abt. 1808, Montgomery or Randolph County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1885, Montgomery County, North Carolina.
Jacob Saunders of Montgomery County should not be confused with the Jacob Saunders of Rowan County. Jacob Saunders of Rowan had a different wife (Lidiah Lunsford) and different children, though both men had a daughter named Mary. Someone has linked the Find-a-Grave memorial for Mary Sanders who married John Watson Archer to Jacob Saunders and Mary Saunders of Randolph County. Jacob and Mary of Randolph had a daughter named Mary, but she did not marry John Watson Archer.
The burial site of Jacob Saunders of Randolph County is believed to be in an abandoned family cemetery on one of the original Jacob Saunders land grants which consisted of sites within the area now bounded by Horseshoe Bend Road, Lovejoy Road, and Flint Hill Road in northeast Montgomery County. Joe Thompson, who once owned land that belonged to Jacob, located the site of this cemetery on the property. The graves of Jacob and his wife Mary are believed to be here, though no headstones are currently readable.
Jacob Saunders was my second great grand-uncle.
--Gary B. Sanders
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