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Submitted: 5/14/12 • Approved: 5/14/12 • Last Updated: 9/13/12 • R692682-G692682-S3
Born March 21, 1878, Wild Cherry, Fulton County, Arkansas.
Died August 22, 1956, Calico Rock, Izard County, Arkansas.
Daughter of James W. & Rosa Emaline "Rosie" Reed Perryman.
Married Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Sanders, March 21, 1897, Izard County, Arkansas.
Calico Rock Progress, Calico Rock, Arkansas, August 30, 1956:
Lettie Jane Sanders, daughter of the Late Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Perryman was born at Wild Cherry, Ark., March 21, 1878 and died August 22, 1956 at her home in Calico Rock.
She married to B. F. Sanders and to this union eight children were born. The Sanders moved to Calico Rock in 1919.
She is survived by a son Owen Sanders of Calico Rock; six daughters; Faye Wood of Newport, Gay Copp of Calico Rock, Jewel Hurst of San Bernardino, Calif., Rose Marie Hively of Haywood, Calif., Opal McNeill of Sunflower, Kan., and Pauline Casey of Garland, Tex.; a sister, Mrs. J. W. Wray of Batesville, Ark.; five brothers, Ed, Ray, Elbert and Grady Perryman of Calico Rock and Claude Perryman of Melbourne; nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Services were held at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church August 23 at 2 p.m. with Rev. Franklin Chesnut officiating. Burial was in Rose Lawn Cemetery under the direction of Hall Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Hald Wood, Floyd McNeill, Jimmy Hively, Loy Fudge, Dr. Noel Copp and Zane Sanders.
[Note: Some sources list her name as Violette Jane "Lettie" Perryman Sanders.]
(Note: Lettie Jane Sanders is buried in the Sanders--Harber Family
Plot. There is a large upright gravestone designating the plot with the
two family names inscribed on it. The individual graves are then marked
with small flat gravstones without the surname included.)
(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)
Contributed on 5/14/12 by maxparnell
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