Re: L.M. Landers, Hall County, GA 1860
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Re: L.M. Landers, Hall County, GA 1860
Martha Brian 1/17/02
Hi, Martha...
Yes, I think we've got it! :)
I am actually descended from Margaret Roxanne Landers. What I am not sure of is whether this is the Margaret Landers who is the daughter of L.M. Landers and Margaret Bryan(t) Landers, apparently born about 1852, or another Margaret Landers, a daughter of Benjamin and Caroline (Watts) Landers, supposedly born in 1861 and therefore not enumerated on the 1860 census. My mother has been quoting "family traditions" right and left, first one way, then the other. This morning, she said she had gotten out some actual papers, and that Margaret Roxanne was the daughter of Benjamin and Caroline.
It would be odd for both brothers to have daughters named Margaret (and Nancy, for that matter) but not impossible -- after all, Margaret Bryan(t) Landers had her own two sisters named Eliza and Elizabeth! And the Landers brothers' mother was named Nancy.
Margaret Roxanne Landers, my great-grandmother, was married in Sullivan County, Indiana, in 1879, and I am going to send for her marriage license application if I can get it. Hopefully this will give her age and solve the mystery once and for all, as there would have been nine years difference between the two Margaret Landerses.
There is also the odd persistent family tradition of calling my great-grandmother "Margaret Roxanne," the whole thing, and perhaps that arose from the fact that there were two little cousins named Margaret, and that was one way to differentiate between them?
Do you have any further data on Benjamin Bryan(t) Sr. and his wife? What was his wife's name, do you know? It's so annoying that the censuses pre-1850 just enumerate ages and sexes and don't give names.
Many thanks,
Elizabeth
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