This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sanderson, Hopkins, Buck Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4106 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. February 22, 1940. "OBITUARY - LEWIS SANDERSON".--Funeral services for Lewis Sanderson, aged 84 years 4 months and 7 days, were conducted at the home of a sister, Mrs. Almeda Hopkins Friday afternoon, with Rev. Butts, pastor of the Riverton Methodist church officiating. Mrs. Mollie Johnson and Mrs.Blanche Schetzer furnished music, assisted at the piano by Mrs. Ellis Broughton. Pall bearers were Henry Sipes, Robert Reid, Clyde Turner, Clyde Farwell, Oscar Hudson and Harry Dugger. Interment was in the Riverton cemetery. Mr. Sanderson was born at Union, Penn., in 1855 and died Feb . 14 at his home north of town. He came to Riverton with his parents when he was 9 years old and had always lived on the same farm.He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Rosa Buck of Blanchard and Mrs. Almeda Hopkins of north of Riverton; and two brothers, George of near Riverton and Clinton of Sidney. Those from out of town who attended the funeral of Lewis Sanderson Friday were Mrs. Lucy Schnoor, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Thomas and Mrs. Lola Gordon, all of Shenandoah; Edna Thomas and Marjorie McMahon of Farragut; Ben Spittler of Watson, Mo.; and Mrs. Viola Wilson of Dallas, Texas. N.B.: Mrs. Almeda Hopkins lived in a large home located on the north side of the road, on the very southeast corner of northeast quarter of section 34 township 69 range 41. Her brother Lewis lived about 3/4 of a miles west in the southwest quarter of section 34, on the south side of the road -- old South Tier road -- at the top of the east side of the valley of the West Nishnabotna river. Their brother Clinton lived about a mile, still further west, in the northwest corner of the southeast quarter of section 33, just a few rods east of Sunnyside District School.....The people furnishing the music were from Riverton, but the pall bearers were the neighbors of Mrs. Hopkins for the most part: We (the Farwells) lived only a quarter of a mile north of the Hopkins place, Harry "Jack" Dugger lived a quarter of a mile east, Oscar Hudson lived a half mile east, Bob Hoppock (the Jim Reids had raised Bob Hoppock who was often called "Reid") lived 3/4 miles east. Clyde Turner lived ju! st south of the intersection of the old South Tier with the Riverton road, and Henry Sipes about 1/2 a miles south of the same intersection -- and were, therefore, neighbors of Lew Sanderson (as he was known)........ The Sanderson neighborhood along the South Tier stretched from Clinton Sandersons on the west and on east about a mile and a half, to the Hopkins place --W.F.