DAVID6 SAUNDERS was born in 1789 in Alexandria, Virginia. He was
the youngest of John and Mary Saunders’s six children. David would have
been no more than twelve months old when his father died and he and his older
brother and sister came under the guardianship of their stepfather Philip
Wanton. In 1818 he married Hannah Travilla Douglass in Cincinnati, Ohio. About 1825 he moved to Washington DC where he was employed in the
treasury department of the US Post Office. In 1863, while the Civil War
was raging, he sailed by clipper around the horn to San Francisco with
his wife and youngest son. He died in San Rafael, California aged 80.
