WILLIAM7 HARTSHORNE SAUNDERS was born 28 June 1819 at
Milford, Ohio. He was the eldest child of David Saunders and his wife
Hannah Travilla Douglass. A graduate of the prestigious University
of Pennsylvania Medical School, he died in mysterious circumstances in
Nicaragua in 1857. There is some suggestion that he was involved with the
notorious filibuster William Walker. He had married Hannah Bradley in
Washington DC in 1851. She was the daughter of Joseph H. Bradley, a
prominent attorney. The union produced a daughter Lucy. In 1859
William’s father David purchased a plot in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington
DC and had erected a handsome monument to his son’s memory. Whether
William is actually interred there is unknown.
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