Mack and Minnie married Christmas day in 1940. He enlisted in the army in November 1943, and was released Feb 1946. They had an even dozen of children, 6 girls and 6 boys, plus they raised three grandchildren as their own.
Mack Neese Sanders was born in 1918, the son of McNeese Sanders and Alice Overton. Minnie was born in 1925, the daughter of William Washington and Rosia Miller. All were from Copiah County, Mississippi,
Minnie died in 1984 and Mack died in 1996. They were both buried in the Greater New Zion Baptist Church Cemetery.
Mack's mother, Alice Overton Sanders, and my grandmother Gertrude Overton Durr were sisters.
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My husband's parents married two years earlier and also had six girls and six boys. My husband was number 5.
The picture is very mesmerizing.
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