Turner Saunders

[1] In 1830 he was elected President of the Board of Trustees of LaGrange College, near Leighton, Alabama, which was burned during the Civil War.

It is an example of the kind of vernacular classicism that a talented amateur with access to some architectural books could produce for a local builder to follow.

His daughter Martha Maria Saunders married Benjamin McFarland Bradford who, according to the book, was the Register of Land office at Courtland, Alabama.

Part of it reads, "Reverend Turner Saunders, or deceased friend was in the proper sense of the word, a gentleman-a Christian gentleman.

Without claiming for him remarkably brilliant intellectual parts, he certainly possessed, in a rare degree clear, sound, and well balanced intellect, a judgement singularly correct, a mind so practical and logical as to seldom be misled by speculations, or puzzled by sophisms, and what is of still higher moment, he had a heart alive to all the interests of humanity.