OBIT: Samuel C. SANDERSON, 1899, Saxton, Bedford County, PA

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ROARING SPRING RIPPLES.

  Samuel C. Sanderson died at the Nason sanitarium on Saturday last 
aged 52 years and 8 months.  Mr. Sanderson was weighmaster of the Broad 
Top railroad at Saxton during the past twenty years.  About a month ago 
his health gave away.  He came to the Nason sanitarium on last Tuesday.  
He was apparently improving during the short stay there, but on 
Saturday he died of heart failure.  His remains were taken to Saxton 
and were laid to rest in the cemetery there.  Mr. Sanderson was born 
near New Bloomfield, Perry county, Pa.  He was an upright, pious 
Christian, beloved by everybody.  He was a member of the Lutheran 
church at Saxton.  He leaves a widow and seven children.  He was a 
brother of T. C. Sanderson.  His pastor, Rev. Mr. English, preached his 
funeral sermon.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, August 8, 1899

1880 Saxton, Bedford County census -
Samuel K. Sanderson, 33  
Mary E. Sanderson, 27  
Cyrus W. Sanderson, 4  
Almira Sanderson, 2  
Harris V. Sanderson, 2/12