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John
Sanders
By
Olive and Roy Sanders
John
Sanders from Exeter, Ontario, came to homestead and settle in the
Killarney area in 1881. He was the father of W. J. Sanders, and
the grandfather of Roy, Charles, Bill, Beatrice and Marjorie
Sanders. He settled in the Sanders school district on the west
half of section 20-2-17.
John
Sanders was a stone-mason by trade. In the summer of 1881, he and
John Christie, another early settler, went to the Turtle Mountain,
built themselves a shack, and lived there for the winter, cutting logs
to build a house and barn for their families who were to arrive the
next summer.
Mrs.
Sanders and the children left Exeter, Ontario, in 1887. They
travelled by way of the Great Lakes and up the Red River to Emerson
where they loaded a small amount of household essentials and supplies
in ox carts. The going was not easy. They had several
streams to cross, which were too deep for the carts, and consequently
some of their supplies got wet, such as the sugar and flour which was
to last for the winter. These had to be dried out as best they
could.
They
arrived at the homestead in August 1882. John Sanders had the log
barn built, with sod roof, and this they had to live in until the log
house was built. It was tough going. When it rained, they
were up in the night, moving their beds around to avoid getting wet
under the leaks in the sod roof.
The
house was completed in the late fall, and it was getting mighty cold
when they moved into their three-roomed log house.
John
Sanders was married to Anne Howard. They raised eight children,
six daughters and two sons.
The
first taxes paid on the farm in 1885 amounted to $7.56.
Municipal
………………… 3.20
District
& Country ……. 2.40
General
School ………… 2.60
8.40
Rebate
10% ………….. .84
$7.56
Three
generations have farmed this half section, John Sr., John Jr., and Roy
Sanders. Recently it was sold to Clare Beattie.
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