Submitted by Descendants: George Sr., George Frederick Jr., Rebecca Brown, and Robert Franklin SAUNDERS
William Saunders was born in Florida October 1848, the son of Alexander Saunders and Margaret Hutchison, who were both born in the Bahama Islands.
William Saunders had established a homestead in Hillsborough County before March 1877 and was still living in the area that became Pinellas County 23 May 1911. Sidney Ann Brownlow and William Saunders had seven children, who were all born in Florida.
William Saunders died after 1918 in Florida.
William Saunders was first established as a Florida Pioneer in 2001