George Franklin SANDERS

George married Jacqueline MCARTHUR [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Kimberly SANDERS
2. Heather SANDERS
3. Jennifer SANDERS
4. Erin SANDERS
5. Amber Lee SANDERS
6. Brooke SANDERS

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Information from family group sheets and temple records.

DAD'S STORY

Told to me, Arvilla, first child of Herbert and Arvilla Bernice, in November
1959. He said, "My father, George Philip Sanders, born 31 March 1859, in
Bells River, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and my mother, Minnie Ada Ketcham,
born 26 May 1864, in Maspeth, Long Island, New York, were married 25 January
1886. They met in Long Island where my father was working for the Long Island
railroad, as a carpenter foreman.

I'm the fourth of five children: three sisters, Genevieve Agnes, born 28
September 1887; Edith Rundell, born 7 November 1888; Minnie Ketcham, born 8
November 1890. I, Herbert Joshua Sanders, was born 26 July 1893, and my
brother, George Philip, was born 27 July 1894.

My father was raised by his oldest brother, Joseph, his parents having died
when he was small. My father was 6 feet 2 inches tall in his stocking feet,
very handsome and kind. He was raised on a farm till a young man, then
learned the wheelwright and carpenters trade. My father was killed in a
railroad accident when he was thirty-two and I was only two years old.

My mother was tall, 5 feet 10 inches, and very pretty. She had dark brown
eyes and dark hair, so loving and kind. She was a nurse. All her friends and
neighbors knew what a wonderful nurse she was. She was the best cook in the
world.

Mother married Franklin Green Powers when I was five. When I was small, six
to ten years old, we traveled all over the East going to race tracks. Race
tracks was "Pop's" business. I went to Coney Island often, and roller skated,
swam and played games.

Impty, bimpty, diddly fig, One-ery, or-ere, Ick-ery Ann
dee-la, doe-la, domin-ig Phil-isy, Phollisy, Nickolas Dan
Ichee, pichee, domin-ichy, Stinklin, stonklin, Irish Mary
om pom tusk ala-bala boo, Squeeby, squaby Buck.
Out goes you.

I was "King Pin" of our gang, and they weren't the best of playmates. I
didn't say prayer as a child. I was christened in the Episcopal Church of
England.

As long as "Pop", my step-father, was alive we didn't want for anything. We
had fine horses and carriages and two servants. Pop gave us too much money to
spend for our own good.

I was an "A" number one student until my mama died. I was 10 and Mama's pet.
After she died I wouldn't go to school. I didn't have any home duties to do
and was jut let to run the streets and amuse myself.

"Pop" died when I was 14 and I was on my own from then on. Genevieve, my
oldest sister, ran the house. She took in five or six teachers as boarders
for a while and then went into nurse's training. Genevieve raised and
supported all of us.

Minnie and Edith took business courses and became stenographers. George
worked for a slate roofing company and lived at home while I went to work on a
farm. The man I worked for soon went into the painting and decorating
business and so did I.

One day when I was small I turned the neighbor's cows loose just for fun. My
brother, George, was going to tell so we fought and George picked up a rock,
threw it, and hit me in the back of the head. It hit so hard that it knocked
me out. George was so scared he ran five blocks for the doctor. In the
meantime, my sister Minnie carried me into the house and by the time the
doctor got there I was all right. From that day on George wouldn't raise a
hand to me no matter what I did to him. I took advantage of this many times.

I read all the favorite children's books. I liked to read and still do.

By the time I was fifteen I was working in Long Island in a bicycle and
handyman's shop, and delivered groceries on a hand cart, and worked in a
garage where I learned to be a mechanic.

At seventeen, I was private chauffeur for a doctor. I soon got the wander
lust and went to Florida where I worked as a chauffeur for a millionaire
lumberman for two years.

I was a chauffeur for a major in the signal corps during World War I. Most of
my duties were in Texas. After the army I came to LaGrande, Oregon, and
worked for the next fifteen years in the logging camps as a logging engineer.
While at a logging camp in 1915, I met my first wife, Edith Leslie. I was
twenty two, and she was sixteen when we were married.

We had five children. The first baby, George Herbert, lived only eight hours.
Edith was seventeen at the time and loosing her first baby was hard on her.

Geneveive Mary was born 14 August 1918; Arthur William was born 18 August
1920; Nadine Elizabeth was born 18 November 1922; and Robert Leslie was born 2
April 1925.

I bought the Texaco service station in Elgin, Oregon. I was in this business
only a short time when Edith passed away. She had an abcess in the brain and
suffered greatly.

Having been left with four children ages 11, 10, 7 and 5, I had to have a
housekeeper. There were several who were incompetent. I finally found one
who was satisfactory, but she took ill suddenly and had to have emergency
surgery, so her young widowed niece agreed to take over for her and hold the
job until she could come back. But,---while the lovely young widow and her
baby son, Billy, stayed, I fell in love with her many charms. Bernice was her
name and she lived a few blocks from my house with her mother and stepfather.
She came to work every morning at seven. I was always looking out the window
watching for her to come up the walk.

Finally I got up enough nerve to make permanent arrangements to keep her with
me all the time. We were married December 2, 1929. To this union eleven
children were born, making me the father of sixteen.

William (Billy) Walter Newell, being my wife's first child, and a baby at the
time of our marriage became my own in every way, except by blood ties.
Together we raised sixteen.

Herbert married Arvilla Bernice WANGSGARD on 2 Dec 1929 in Legrande. Oregon. Arvilla (daughter of Thomas "L" WANGSGARD and Barbara Louisa RACE) was born on 12 Mar 1907 in Mountain View, Wyoming; died on 21 Oct 1987 in Forest Grove, Washington, Oregon; was buried on 26 Oct 1987 in Yamhill, Carlton, Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Arvilla Bernice Wangsgard was sealed to her father and his 2nd wife, Annie
Josephine Johnson, by permission of St. George Temple President, Harold S.
Snow. The father and 2nd wife were sealed 12 Nov 1959." (written on family
group sheet with temple stamps by President Harold S. Snow.

George married Minnie Ada KETCHUM on 25 Jan 1886. Minnie (daughter of Joshua Sylvester KETCHUM and Phebe A. DEGROFF) was born on 26 Mar 1864 in Maspeth, Queens, New York; died on 16 Nov 1904 in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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This is the story told to me (Arvilla Rae Sanders Moore) one day in April
1961, by my Grandfather, Thomas Wangsgaard. He was born on February 28, 1884,
in Huntsville, Utah, to peter Christian Wangsgaard and Ingeborg Nielson.
He said, "I was known as "Little Tommy", because I was a sickly child. I
was the seventh child of a family of thirteen, five girls and eight boys.
At the age of seventeen I worked with cattle, for Hansen Livestock Co.,
riding and feeding.
When I was twenty-one I went to Wyoming to try farming. There I met and
married Barbara Race on May 8, 1906. Our daughter, Arvilla Bernice, was born
on March 12, 1907.
When little Bernice was just eight years old we were divorced. The court
granted Bernice to me.
Bernice and I moved to Utah where I met Annie Josephine Johnson and married
her June 21, 1915.
We had a daughter, Florence May, born to us April 21, ______, and two
little boys who died right after they were born.
I went to school in Huntsville, Utah. President David O.McKay was one of
my teachers. I've been to the McKay home many times and even courted David's
sister."

((I think it is interesting to note that Grandpa was baptized September 3,
1916. He and Annie were members of the church most of their married life
before they went to the temple on _____________ and Mother and Daddy went with
them. Mother was sealed to Grandpa and her stepmother.)
told by Arvilla Rae Sanders Moore

Information from Arvilla Bernice Wangsgard Sanders family records and records
of Stanley Wangsgard.

Life history written by Thomas L. Wangsgard on Sunday, 30 Aug 1953.
I was born Feb 28 - 1884 in Huntsville, Utah, the 7 child of P. C. and
Ingerborg Wangsgard. I went to school in Huntsville and worked on the farm
with my father. At the age of 17 I went to Logan and worked for the Hansen
live stock co., feeding cattle and tending cattle. At the age of 21 I went to
Wyoming, worked on ranches and coal mines also learned carpenter work. At the
age of 31 came to Ogden, worked in Packing plant (meat) for 1 year then got a
truck and was in express business for 3 years. At age 35 went to Nevada on
Homestead, was there 7 years. At age of 42 came back to Ogden and have done
carpenter work ever since. At this writing I am 69 years old and have 2
daughters and 14 grand children and 4 great grand children.

Thomas married Barbara Louisa RACE on 8 Mar 1906 in Mountainview, Uintah Co., Wyoming. Barbara (daughter of Joseph RACE and Melissa Louisa SEABERRY) was born on 29 Jul 1888 in Goshen, Millard Co., Utah; died on 4 Jul 1946 in Boise, Boise Co., Idaho; was buried in Ontario, Malheur, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Family records. Family Group Sheet submitted by Herbert Joshua Sanders.

Family Search/Ancestral File (AFN:1KB7-JX) Record shows Boise, Ada Co., Idaho.

Philip married Sarah Agnes COMPTON. Sarah (daughter of William COMPTON, Shipbuilder and Mary VAUGHAN) was born in Belle River, Belle Creek, Queens, PEI; was christened in 1818; died on 16 Feb 1889 in Belle River, P.E.I., Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRTH: family group sheet from records in Prince Edward Island have the
birthdate as 1810

Joshua married Phebe A. DEGROFF. Phebe (daughter of Cornelius DEGROFF and Phebe BOGART) was born on 1 Feb 1837 in Maspeth, Queens, New York; died on 3 May 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Thomas Wangsgaard told this story to Arvilla Rae Sanders Moore in April,
1961. "Great, Great Grandfather, Christen W., and Great Grandfather Peter,
walked across the plains from Omaha, Nebrasks, to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Great Grandmother Ingaborg Neilson came six years later with a family. She
was nineteen. She helped the family care for the children. They left from
Grand Island, Nebraska. She carried a baby or pushed a handcart all the way
across the plains.
When she arrived in Salt Lake the husband of the family she came with
wanted to take her as a second wife, but she wouldn't do it.
She met Peter, a widower with two children, and married in the Endowment
House.
Peter quit the church.
Ingaborg had thirteen children and raised twelve besides Peter's two
children.
The youngest of Peter's two children died and left two boys for her to
raise.

Information from family records of Arvilla Bernice Wangsgard Sanders and
research of Stanley Wangsgard as follows: Hvidgjerg-Lyngs Parish, F Denm
Thisted H10 pt 2; Snedsted Parish, F Denm Thisted s7 pt. 1 & 2; Wangsgaard
Family Records; LDS Church Membership Records; Temple Index Bureau; Weber
County Marriage Records; Ogden Standard Examiner obit.; Endowment House
Sealing Records.

Peter married Ingeborg NIELSEN on 9 Sep 1872 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT. Ingeborg (daughter of Jacob NIELSEN and Rasmine SORENSEN) was born on 17 Jan 1853 in Ingerslev, Tiset, Aarhus, Dnmr; was christened on 17 Apr 1853 in Tiset, Aarhus, Dnmr; died on 19 Apr 1940 in Ogden, Weber, UT; was buried on 21 Apr 1940 in Huntsville, Weber, UT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Information from Stanley Wangsgard records and research as follows:Beder
(8714, pt. 2); Tiset (8749 pt 4); 1860 census Peder Par Ning Hered, (8518) pt
42, 1870) cnesus (34412, pt 171); Endowment House Sealing records; Index
bureau; Huntsville Cemetery records; Records possessed by Stanley F.
Wangsgaard, 805 E. 3rd S., Salt Lake City, Utah 84102.

Family Search/Ancestral File (AFN:3TSF-S7)

Notes:

Family group sheet submitted by Herbert Joshua Sanders. Information from
family and church records

Records show that Joseph Race was also baptized by proxy 7 May 1953, and
endowed 29 Jun 1962 in Salt Lake.

Baptized 6 Sep 1866 by William Whitehead. Confirmed 6 Sep 1866 by William
Heaton and others. (Microfilm Records - Utah, P 16 part 2, 8 Mar 1955, W. R. F.

Family Search/Ancestral File (AFN:1KB7-52) Record shows death place as Fort
Bridger, Unita, Wy.

Joseph married Melissa Louisa SEABERRY in 1872. Melissa (daughter of Wesley Hudson SEABURY and Louisa KEITH) was born on 15 May 1851 in Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah; died on 8 Mar 1911 in Hudson, Wyoming; was buried on 11 Mar 1911. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Family group sheet submitted by Herbert Joshua Sanders. Record shows birth as
15 May 1854.

DEATH: Family Group Sheet submitted by Herbert Joshua Sanders from family and
church records.

Family Search shows birth as 15 May 1851, Salt Lake, Utah, Utah. (AFN:1FPJ-09)