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From: "Charles" <>
Subject: The Edmonson County News 1930 1 of 6
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:30:20 -0500


I've been very busy and forgot to send the article last night so I'm sending 2 through tonight. This is my gggggrandfather!

Another article from The Edmonson County News 1930 1 of 6.

Charles


The Edmonson County News

September 25, 1930



Edmonson Pioneer Second White Child
Born on the "Dark and Bloody Ground"



JOHN SWADDEN SANDERS

(By Charles E. Whittle)



He was the second boy born on Kentucky soil. His first home was at Boonesborough with Daniel Boone. He knew Boone's daughter and the Galloway girls who were kidnapped by the Indians. He heard Simon Girty's speak before the fort at Bryant's Station and Reynold's reply to that renegade, when the Indians made their attack. He saw those two Indians whom Big Joe Bledsoe slew.

These are but a few of the traditions of the old pioneer John Swadden Sanders, who in later years settled near the Buzzard Roost in The Forks and was for years a neighbor there with Old Tom Lincoln and his little son, Abraham, who is the progenitor of most of the Sander's in Edmonson County today; and who lies buried in the family graveyard on the Carter place in The Forks, where he lived and died.

He was known as John "Swadden" Sanders. This may have been his middle name; or it may have been a nickname to distinguish him for other John Sanders, for that was the name of his father, on of his sons, and two or three of his grand-children.

He bore the unique distinction of being the second native Kentuckian having first seen the light of day after his parents had passed the Cumberland Gap just a little way in their migration to Boonesborough. The date of his birth was probably 1776, the year our Republic was born.



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