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Captain Samuel Sanders

Owen County, Kentucky
· 1813 - - 1902
Military
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Samuel Sanders, a steamboat captain before and after the Civil War, braved the Kentucky River under occasional sniper fire from the Confederate army to bring supplies from Louisville to Monterey and up the Kentucky River to Shaker Landing.
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