Sanders (family)

Minnie J. Sanders was born Mary Jane Mawhir in Belfast, Ireland, in 1855. She was a missionary of the American Congregational Church to Angola. She arrived in Benguela in 1882 and the same year she married William Henry Sanders. She died in 1891. William Henry Sanders was born in Tillypally, Jaffna, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1856, the son of a missionary. He was educated in Massachussetts, and ordained a Congregational minister in 1880. He embarked for missionary work in Angola later that year, where he served until 1930. He was married to Mary Jane Mawhir, and then Sarah Bell. Rev. Sanders died in 1947.