Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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LAFAYETTE SAUNDERS, 
 
a farmer, stock and fruit raiser on farm lots 93 and 106 of the old American 
Colony tract of the Cernitus Ranch, came to Los Angeles County in 1876, and 
located first at Anaheim, where he lived four years. He then purchased 
forty-five acres of fine land and moved to where he now lives. This place he has 
put under the highest state of cultivation. Mr. Saunders was born in Perry 
County, Illinois, in 1845, and is the son of Thomas and Jemima Saunders, natives 
of Virginia and Tennessee respectively, and of French and German origin. 
Lafayette is the youngest of a family of three children, and received a 
common-school education. In 1870 he chose for his partner through life Miss 
Sarah Montgomery, a native of the same county and State as himself. She is the 
daughter of Robert and Savina Montgomery, natives of the Buckeye State, and of 
Scotch extraction. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders have been blessed with four children: 
Rosetta, Charles Weston, Albert Wort, and Frances Jennetta. Mr. Saunders 
volunteered in the service of his country in 1864, in the One Hundred and 
Thirty-sixth Illinois Volunteers, and served four months. Politically he is a 
Republican, and is a man whom his neighbors and all who know him, respect and 
esteem.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 632
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler