Rev. Charles Sylvester Sanders was graduated in 1875 in Amherst College, Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
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CHARLÉS SYLVESTER, b. April 18, 1854, m. Dec. 24, 1881, at Aintah, Turkey, Illie Grace.* dau. of Rev. John Shepherd and Mary Field (Williamson) Bingham, b. at Higginsville, N. Y., Oct. 22. 1859. d. at Aintab, Jan. 15, 1888. They had
one child, Maud Mary, b. April 4, 1884. He graduated at Amherst College in 1875, and at Hartford Theological Seminary in 1879. llas been for some years a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions,
stationed at Aintah, Asiatic Turkey.
He was a missionary in 1900.
2 He appeared on the census of 1900 in the household of
Rev. John Shepard Bingham and
Mary Field Bingham in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, which lists John Bingham, 66, born August 1833 in New York; his wife Mary, 62, born June 1837 in Canada/English; their widowed son-in-law Charles S. Sanders, 46, born April 1854 in Ceylon; and their granddaughter Marie Sanders, 16, born April 1884 in Turkey.
2 The Hartford Seminary Record
By Waldo Selden Pratt, Arthur Lincoln Gillett, Hartford Theological Seminary
Published by Hartford Seminary Press., 1907
Item notes: v.17 (1907)
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Jun 4, 2007
In the death of REV. CHARLES SYLVESTER SANDERS, the Seminary
loses one of its most honored alumni, and the cause of
Christ in Turkey one of its most loyal supporters and most efficient
agents. A man of absolute consecration, he combined in
a very unusual degree the capacities of the scientific observer,
the wise administrator, the faithful preacher, and the warmhearted
friend. During his last furlough he spent some days at
the Seminary, and they were days full of inspiration to all with
whom he came in contact. The January " Missionary Herald "
contains an admirable and restrained appreciation of him by a
colleague in the Central Turkey Mission, Rev. F. W. Macallum
of Marash.
The story of his life is as follows : He was the son of missionary
parents, being born in Ceylon, April 18, 1854. He
graduated from Amherst College in the class of 1875, and after
a year of teaching entered the Seminary, graduating in 1879 with
the first class to go forth from Hosmer Hall. He was ordained
in June of the same year, and on September 27 following, he
sailed to take his place in the Central Turkey Mission of the
American Board at Aintab. December 24, 1880, he married, at
Aintab, Miss Grace Bingham, who died eight years later. On
the 25th of last October Mr. Sanders was thrown from his
horse while riding in Aintab from the College to the Girls' Boarding
School. Dr. Shepherd, of the mission station, was almost
immediately in attendance and everything possible was done ; but
there was a fracture of the skull which was necessarily fatal.
He survived less than twelve hours, and never regained consciousness.
One daughter, Maud M., survives him ; also four
brothers — William H., missionary in West Central Africa :
Joseph A., M.D., of the Sanatorium at Clifton Springs, N. Y. ;
Frank K., secretary of the C. S. S. & P. Society, and Walter E.,
of Cleveland, Ohio.
5 Amherst College Biographical Record, Centennial Edition (1821-1921)) *
Sanders, Charles Sylvester. Son of Rev. Marshall D. and Georgianna (Knight), born Chavagacherry, Jaffna, Ceylon, April 18, 1854.
Prepared Amherst H. S. Taught Granby, 1875-76; Hartford T. S., 1876-79; ordained missionary of A. B. C. F. M., Hartford, Conn., Je. 3, 1879; missionary Aintab, Turkey, 1879-1906. Taught in Central Turkey Coll., 1883; Central Turkey T. S., 1893. Died Aintab, Turkey, Oct. 27, 1906.
Married December 24, 1881, Illie Grace, da. of Rev. John S. Bingham, Wellsville, N. Y., who died Jan. 15, 1888. 1 da. Bro.
Joseph A. (A. C. 1878).