MRS. MARGARET SANDERS, who is the widow of William F. Sanders, resides in Oneco Township. She was born in Clinton County, Pa., on the 19th of July, 1846, and her husband, William Franklin Sanders, deceased, was born in Union County, Pa., on the 19th of December, 1836. He was the son of Jacob Sanders, a native of the same county, and so far as known, the family from its earliest history in this country were farmers. William Franklin Sanders lived at home until he was sixteen years of age, when he began life for himself by hiring out to work on farms. He attended a district school in Pennsylvania, and secured a fair education. He worked by the month until he was twenty-eight years of age, when he married, and bought a farm in Wisconsin, near the town of Wayne. He came West with his parents about 1849 or 1850, when they removed to Wisconsin and located in the town of Cadiz. In 1866 he traded his Wisconsin property for property then occupied by his wife's father, John W. Worick, where he died at the age of forty-seven.

Among the first to respond to the call for volunteers for service in the army from this section of the State, was Mr. Sanders. In May, 1861, he enlisted in Co. E, 15th Ill. Vol. Inf., but his service in the army was not of long duration. At the battle of Pittsburg Landing, on the 6th of April, 1862, he received wounds which incapacitated him for further service, and he was consequently sent to Chicago, where he was honorably discharged from further service. He partially recovered from his wounds, and was very desirous of re-entering the service, but it was decided by the examining surgeon that further army life would jeopardize his life, and his patriotic tender of further service was declined.

Mrs. Margaret Sanders was the daughter of John Worick, and was born in Clinton County, Pa. Her father was the son of John Worick, and his father emigrated from Germany to this country. Her mother was Elizabeth McKesson, daughter of Samuel McKesson, who was a native of England. Mrs. Sander's father came to Illinois in 1854, and located in Oneco Township. He is making his home with her now, at the venerable age of seventy-seven years.

Mrs. Sanders is the mother of three children: John W., who is married, and resides near the home place; Edward S. B. and Clayton F., who reside with their mother. John is twenty-two, Edward seventeen, and Clayton fourteen years of age. During his life Mr. Sanders was a faithful adherent of the Republican party. Mr. Sanders belongs to the Evangelical Church, of which denomination her husband was a member at the time of his death. Mrs. Sanders has two brothers, John and Jeremiah Worick, who were soldiers in the army in the war for the Union, serving throughout the war. They participated in numerous engagements, and closed their term of service without receiving any wounds. John F. is a resident of Nevada; Jeremiah lives in Portland, Ore., and is engaged in the agricultural implement business.

Contributed by Carol Parrish from Portrait and Biographical Album of Stephenson County, Ill. (1888), p. 449