Wallace - Person Sheet
Wallace - Person Sheet
NameSAUNDERS, Sarah Ann
Birth Date1718
Birth PlaceOrange County, Virginia
Death Date1775 Age: 57
FatherSAUNDERS, William (1695-1726)
MotherREMY, Elizabeth Mary (1694-)
Spouses
Birth Date20 Feb 1701
Birth PlaceFairfax, Essex County Virginia
Death Date1793 Age: 91
Death PlaceCulpeper County, Virginia
FatherCOLEMAN, Thomas (1678-<1748)
MotherLORT, Mary (~1681-1759)
Misc. Notes
"Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper Co." compiled by Raleigh Travers Green.

Robert Coleman, 1st of the name in Culpeper, married Sarah Ann Saunders. The town of Fairfax (Culpeper) was founded on fifty acres of his land in 1759.

He had one son, Robert, who emigrated to Kentucky and married Mrs. Thompson, a sister of Major Philip Lightfoot.

Gilly, daughter of the 1st Robert and Miss Saunders, married General Edward Stevens, the Revolutionary hero and elector, who cast the vote of the district for Washington, and whose son John married Polly, daughter of the first William Williams.

Ann, 2d daughter of 1st. Robert, married Samuel Clayton,

Rosa, 3d daughter, married Foster of Tennessee, one of whose children was the Senator in Congress from that State.

Another daughter of 1st Robert married Col. John Slaughter, son of the 1st Francis of that name.

Another daughter married Francis Slaughter, brother to the foregoing John.

Another daughter married a Yancey.

Lucy, another daughter, married French Strother, so long representative of Culpeper in the General Assembly and in the Convention of 1775-6, and whose oldest daughter. P. French was first wife of Capain P. Slaughter.

The 8th daughter of 1st. Robert married a Crutcher, and one of their daughters married a Foushee.

Robert Coleman in his will (1793) recorded in Culpeper, leaves legacies to his daughters Ann Clayton, Sarah Slaughter, Lucy Strother, Frances Crutcher Susanna Yancey. Philip Clayton was his executor.
Marr Date20 Nov 1740
Marr PlaceOrange County, Virginia
Last Modified 22 Jun 2008Created 12 Feb 2022 by Robert Avent