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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: SAUNDERS, Edmund
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 19, 1999
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History of Kanawha County
George W. Atkinson
1876
p. 322-323
EDMUND SAUNDERS
Mr. Saunders was born in Dingle, county of Carey, Ireland, in November, I774,
which3 if his chronology is correct, makes him more than a
centenarian. He emigrated to the United States in 1845, and spent about six
months in New York city. He then removed to Virginia, and worked on
different railroads in the eastern portion of the State until 1863, when he
came to Charleston, where he still resides. He never had a serious illness,
and is now in the enjoyment of good health. Age, however, has bent his once
stalwart frame, and it is now with great difficulty that he walks about. He
voted in the late State and Presidential elections, but was taken to the
polls in a carriage. If his memory is reliable, and his relations insist that
it is, he is the oldest man I have found who now resides in Kanawba county.
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