Career
In 1830 he was elected President of the Board of Trustees of an academy for young women. This was LaGrange College, near Leighton, Alabama, which was burned during the Civil War. He served in that position until moving to Aberdeen, Mississippi, in 1844.
Saunders lived in the mansion currently known as the Goode-Hall House, also known as Saunders" Hall, in Lawrence County, Alabama.
The house was sold to Freeman Goode on February 12, 1844. There is a room with a dirt floor that is called "the dungeon" by locals.
lieutenant has bars on the windows and chains on the wall. There is also a brick-floored kitchen in the basement where the slaves are said to have cooked the meals.
Turner Saunders was the son of Revolutionary War veteran Thomas Saunders.
His mother was Ann Turner. Ten children survived him. One of Turner"s sons, James East. Saunders, authored the first major history of Lawrence County, Alabama.
James was aide and personal friend to General
Nathan Forrest. James built a plantation house about 1860 known as Rocky Hill Castle, some four miles south of his father"s mansion between Town Creek and Courtland. Rocky Hill Castle was widely accepted as being haunted due to a disagreement between the architect and James Saunders.
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