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Alfred Webb Sanders, who is one of the native residents of Lonoke County, is none the less esteemed on that account, for his career has been upright and successful. He was born on May 23, 1843, being a son of William and Luserine (Low) Sanders; the birth of the former occurred in York District, S. C., in about 1810, and his father, William Sanders, Sr., was also born in that State about 1761. William Sanders, Sr., moved to Arkansas with his son William, where he followed the occupation of farmer and blacksmith, and where he died in 1864, at the age of ninety-seven. He was of Irish descent. The father of the subject of this sketch died on January 1, 1883, but his wife, whose natal year was 1811, is yet living, making her home with her son Newton, of this county. She was the mother of eight children, four of whom survive. Alfred W. Sanders, after reaching manhood, enlisted during the war in the Confederate service, in Company K, Thirty-sixth Arkansas Infantry, in which he served until the close of hostilities in 1863. He was in the battles of Prairie Grove, Helena, Jenkins’ Ferry and a number of skirmishes, and at the last-named battle was wounded in the top of the head. Mr. Sanders was married in 1870, to Emma Garlington, who died in 1880, leaving three children: Alma, Mary and Wayne. In February, 1882, he married his second wife, Miss Melvina Anthony, a native of Illinois, born in 1861, and a daughter of Benjamin H. and Ollive Anthony. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders became the parents of three children, two of whom are still living: Orie and Lyla. Mr. Sanders has a fine farm of 190 acres, fifty acres being under cultivation, on which he has lived since 1875. He has turned his attention of late years principally to the raising of strawberries, from which he cleared about $100 per acre in 1889. He is a member of the Masonic order, and he and his wife belong to the Baptist Church. Mr. Sanders’ father was county judge for several terms, and held the office of county treasurer a number of years, being recognized as a representative citizen.