Re: William Landers
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Re: William Landers
Christine Miller 4/12/02
I don't have anything about Steuben County as most of my research has centered around Indianapolis. My William's gggrandfather was Jonathan Landers b. September 12, 1753 in Yorkshire, England and immigrated in 1762, at the age of 17, he had just lost his father, mother and only brother to Cholera.He joined some neighbors who were coming to the new land of "Virginia".The group of settlers landed near Warrenton, Virginia and took up land.Jonathan Landers married an English girl from that district, Susannah Withrow. Revolutionary war service in Colonel Farquiers regiment from Virginia.At the close of the war Jonathan Landers took the land grant that the new state Virginia gave to her Revolutionary soldiers, in the land recently explored by Daniel Boone and the Clark brothers in the land beyond the "Cumberland Gap" destined to become Kentucky.
He moved with his son William (b. December 18, 1789 near Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia) to Morgan County, Indiana where this William is buried. William's son Joshua b. about 1815 in Green County, Kentucky. (In 1880 JOSHUA LANDERS (age 66, born c1814 in KY) was living at Perry Township, Marion County, Page 542, Indiana with wife ELIZABETH (age 66, born VA). He was a farmer and a druggist. Joshua and his brother Jeremiah crossed the White River and settled on a farm near what became Glenn's Valley.) One of Joshua's sons is Henry B. Landers b. October 5, 1837 in Johnson County, Indiana. Henry is the father of William E. Landers b. May 30, 1874 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The family was well known in Indianapolis and the surrounding counties in business, politics, and farming. One of William E.'s brothers died in Oklahoma and a sister died in Iowa so this line of the family wasn't tied to Indianapolis. My father was born in Indianapolis and he with several relatives moved to California during the 1930's.
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Re: William Landers
Christine Miller 4/14/02