Sanders, Mary Elizabeth (1923-2006). Collection, n.d.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of toys that belonged to the daughters of Jared Young and Elizabeth Alzira Wofford Sanders. Also included is a photograph of Jared Young Sanders III, Governor of Louisiana from 1908-1912.
Mary Elizabeth Sanders, great-granddaughter of Jared Young and Elizabeth Alzira Wofford Sanders, donated the collection in 1974.
Dates
- n.d.
Biographical / Historical
Jared Y. Sanders II (1839-1881) received a Bachelor of Arts degree from South Carolina College in 1860 and served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He married Elizabeth Wofford (1845-1929) in 1868. They had nine children: Jared Young III, Mary Diana, Sallie Pugh, Bessie Wofford, James Wofford, Henry Lyon, Thomas Talbot, Francis Mitchell and Leila Mitchell. The family lived at Inglewood Plantation in St. Mary Parish near Morgan City, and most members are buried in the Sanders plot in Franklin Cemetery.
Extent
2 Linear Feet (2 feet of materials contained in 2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Source
- Title
- Mary Elizabeth Sanders Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Zack Stein
- Date
- 12/13/2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection Repository
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031
speccoll@louisiana.edu