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POSETHIA L SANDERS, M. D.
Vol. 5, p. 1825

The pioneer physician and surgeon of Carnegie, Oklahoma, Dr.
Posethia L. Sanders has been engaged in practice here since 1903, and
has been successful in building up a large and important professional
business. Prior to coming to this city, he had secured a thorough and
comprehensive training in the line of his calling, and the newly-
opened community offered a prolific field for the display of his
talents. Doctor Sanders was born in Christian County, Illinois
February 11, 1877, and is a son of F. M. and M. A. (Fultz) Sanders.

The Sanders family originated in Scotland, and from that country the
American progenitor came to this country long before the outbreak of
the War of the Revolution, settling in the colony of Virginia, from
whence the family spread to various of the southern states, and
particularly to Kentucky, where the name is well known. Members of
the family have been well known in public life, in business,
agriculture and the professions, and have always been men and women
of substance and standing, honored by and honoring their communities.
F. M. Sanders, the father of Doctor Sanders, is a member the branch
of the family which went to Kentucky, and was born in that state in
1838. He received a common school education, and was brought up to
agricultural pursuits, so that when he entered upon his career he
adopted farming as his vocation. From his native state he removed to
Greene County, Illinois, and in 1860 went to Christian County, in the
same state, where he settled on a farm. There he continued
successfully engaged in farming and stockraising operations for many
years, but in 1892 removed to Sumner County, Kansas where he has
since made his home. He continue to be occupied as a tiller of the
soil until a few years ago when advancing years caused his retirement
and he moved to Wellington, Kansas, where he is living quietly in his
comfortable home, enjoying the fruits of his many years of honest
toil. Mr. Sanders has been a lifelong democrat, but has content to
remain a farmer, and has not let public life lure him from his home.
For many years he has been identified with the Masonic fraternity,
and is now a member of the Royal Arch Chapter of that fraternity.
Both he and Mrs. Sanders are consistent members of the Baptist
Church, in the faith of which their children have been reared. To Mr.
And Mrs. Sanders there born three children: Dr. Posethia L., of this
review; Mattie M., who is the wife of L. A. BOORY and resides at
Wellington, Kansas, where Mr. Boory is engaged in the plumbing and
gasfitting business; and Arleigh G., whose death occurred at the age
of twelve years.

The early education of Dr. P. L. Sanders was secured in the district
schools of Christian County, Illinois, in the vicinity of his
father's farm, on which he worked as a lad and youth during the
summer months. He was fifteen years of age when the family moved to
Sumner County, Kansas, and there he continued his public training
attending both the graded schools and the high school at Mayfield,
Kansas. He had always cherished an ambition to engage in the practice
of medicine, and to gratify this wish took up the study of the
profession at the University of Kansas where he was duly graduated
from the medical department with his diploma and degree, in 1901. His
studies did not end there, however, for he has continued to be an
assiduous scholar, and has taken several post-graduate courses,
including a course in 1906, at the New York Medical School, of the
University of New York, and courses in 1911 at the Chicago Polyclinic
and the Chicago Post-Graduate School.

At the time of his graduation from the University of Kansas, in
1901, Doctor Sanders embarked in practice at that time coming to
Carnegie and opening an office as the pioneer physician and surgeon
of the place. Important professional business was soon attracted to
him by his undoubted talents, and as the years have passed he has
steadily advanced in professional prestige and public favor. His
broad and general practice includes every branch of his calling, and.
in each he is recognized as a thoroughly capable and reliable
practitioner. Doctor Sanders maintains well-appointed offices on the
second floor of the Cole-Hugill Building. He holds membership in the
various organizations and societies of his profession, including the
Caddo County Medical Society, the Oklahoma State Medical Society, the
Southwestern Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
That he is highly esteemed by his professional brethren is shown by
the fact that he has served in the capacity of president of the Caddo
County organization. Doctor Sanders has various financial and
business interests at Carnegie, and is a director in the Benedict Oil
Company, of Arizona. His fraternal connections include membership in
Carnegie Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the lodges of the
Modern Woodmen of America and the Woodmen of the World, at Carnegie,
and the Fraternal Mystic Circle, at Mayfield, Kansas. He is a
republican in politics, but his only public office has been that of
health officer of Carnegie. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and a member of the board of trustees of that congregation.

Doctor Sanders was married in June 1905, at Carnegie, to Miss Ethel
FREDREGILL, daughter of G. W. Fredregill M. who was a pioneer
hardware merchant of Carnegie but is now engaged in farming in Caddo
County. One child has been born to Doctor and Mrs. Sanders: Vera
Bernadine, born in October 1907, who is now attending the Carnegie
public schools.

Transcribed for OKGenWeb by Jack Wood July 21, 1999.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916).