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• Birth	5 Dec 1808	Mill Creek, New Castle Co, Delaware, USA
  Gender	Male
  AFN	1B2F-RN
  Died	15 Jan 1873	St. George, Washington Co, Utah, USA
  	Cause: Paralysis
  Buried	18 Jan 1873	St. George City Cemetery, St. George, Washington Co, Utah, USA   [4]
  Person ID	I20812	Nichols-Wilson
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2008
  Father	Ellis Sanders,   b. 3 Mar 1766, Mill Creek, New Castle Co, Delaware ,   d. 22 Mar 1843, Mill Creek, New Castle Co, Delaware, USA
  Mother	Hannah Mendenhall,   b. 1 Jan 1772, Mill Creek, New Castle Co, Delaware ,   d. 23 Jan 1831, New Castle Co, Delaware, USA
  Married	22 Oct 1794	Newark/Kennett Mtg, Mill Creek, New Castle Co, Delaware, USA
  Family ID	F660	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Rachel Broom Roberts,   b. 14 Oct 1808, Baltimore, Baltimore Co, Maryland, USA ,   d. 16 May 1892, St. George, Washington Co, Utah, USA
  Married	4 Nov 1830	Red Lion, , Delaware, USA
  Children	> 1. Anna Sanders,   b. 11 Jan 1832, Wilmington, New Castle Co, Delaware, USA ,   d. 22 Jun 1879, St. George, Washington Co, Utah, USA   2. Elizabeth Roberts Sanders,   b. 4 Jan 1834, Wilmington, New Castle Co, Delaware, USA ,   d. 2 Feb 1914 > 3. Hannah Mendenhall Sanders,   b. 5 Apr 1836, Wilmington, New Castle Co, Delaware, USA ,   d. 2 Feb 1913, Springville, Utah Co, Utah, USA > 4. Rachel Ellen Sanders,   b. 22 Aug 1838, Wilmington, New Castle Co, Delaware, USA ,   d. 25 Aug 1926, St. George, Washington Co, Utah, USA > 5. Sarah Jane Sanders,   b. 15 Dec 1841, Wilmington, New Castle Co, Delaware, USA ,   d. 14 Aug 1928, Vernal, Uintah Co, Utah, USA > 6. Ellis Mendenhall Sanders, Jr.,   b. 28 Sep 1843, Wilmington, New Castle Co, Delaware, USA ,   d. 17 Jun 1876   7. Ellen C. Sanders,   b. 24 Nov 1846, Winter Quarters (now Omaha), Nebraska Territory, USA ,   d. 8 Apr 1892   8. Lucy Sanders,   b. 7 Jan 1865, St. George, Washington Co, Utah, USA ,   d. 1946
  Last Modified	13 Apr 2007
  Family ID	F7192	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Esther Ann Pierce,   b. Abt 1812,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	2 Feb 1846
  Last Modified	13 Apr 2007
  Family ID	F9121	Group Sheet

• Sources

  [S751] Conquerors of the West: Stalwart Mormon Pioneers. [pp 2281-2] ELLIS MENDENHALL SANDERS Born: 5 Dec 1808, Stanton, New Castle, Delaware Parents: Ellis and Hannah Mendenhall Sanders Died: 15 Jan 1873, St. George, Washington, Utah Arrived in Valley: 24 Sep 1848, Heber C. Kimball Co. Married 1st: Rachel Brown Roberts Date: 9 Nov 1830 Born: 4 Sep 1807, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland Died: 16 May 1892, St. George, Washington, Utah Married 2nd: Esther Gheen Date: 1845, Prob. Nauvoo, Illinois Married 3rd: Esther Ann Pierce (May be the same person as #2) Date: 2 Feb 1846. Sealed in Nauvoo Temple. Did not live together as man and wife. Married 4th: Mary Hawthorne Date: 15 Jun 1877 (?). Did not live together as man and wife. Ellis came from a family of Quakers in Pennsylvania. His wife Rachel was a granddaughter of Jacob Broom, who was a signer of the U.S. Constitution. Ellis was baptized in 1843 and was called to preside over the Church in that area. He paid William Mendenhall $2500 to purchase a lot and build a two-story home in Nauvoo. It still stands on the northwest corner of Page and Sidney streets. He went back to Delaware and sold his property and returned in 1845 to Nauvoo. He and his wife did temple work until the saints left. The Sanders family remained for a short time in Nauvoo, during which time Ellis married in polygamy with Esther Gheen. The Sanders family cross the Mississippi River with Orson Hyde and Wilford Woodruff on May 9 and followed the saints west. They spent the winter in Winter Quarters where Ellis built a log house. The family crossed the plains in 1848 and after their arrival in the Valley, they remained in Salt Lake. In 1862, Ellis received a call to move to St. George, where Ellis served as the road supervisor and watermaster. He remained active in the church and community until his death in 1873. (Transcription by Chad G. Nichols) [S119] Mendenhall Family Association (MFA), ([online] : http://www.mendenhall.org). [S471] Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998). [S228] Utah Cemeteries and Burials Database, Utah Department of Community and Economic Development, (Salt Lake City, UT : [2003--, online] http://history.utah.gov/utah_history_research_center/cemetery_burials/). Ellis Mendenhall Sanders b. 5 Dec 1808 New Castle, Delaware d. 15 Jan 1873 cause of d. Paralysis bur. St. George City Cemetery A-J-181-1 (Research by Chad G. Nichols)

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