Stephen Landers

10 August 1785–19 July 1870 (Age 84)
Lenox, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

The Life Summary of Stephen

When Stephen Landers was born on 10 August 1785, in Lenox, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Ebenezer Landers, was 26 and his mother, Olive Osborne, was 27. He married Polly Long in 1810, in Afton, Afton, Chenango, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Bainbridge, Bainbridge, Chenango, New York, United States in 1850 and Afton, Afton, Chenango, New York, United States for about 5 years. He died on 19 July 1870, at the age of 84, and was buried in Afton, Afton, Chenango, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

Stephen Landers
1785–1870
Polly Long
1791–1857
Marriage: 1810
Stephen Presson Landers
1812–1876
John T. Lander
1821–
Thomas Landers
1824–1883
Olive Landers
1815–1872
Ebenezer Landers
1817–1839
Rexaville Landers
1826–1889
Mary Eliza Landers
1833–1914

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1810Afton, Afton, Chenango, New York, United States
    • Children

    (7)

    +2 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (8)

    +3 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1786 · Shays' Rebellion
    Age 1
    Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
    1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
    Age 2
    The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
    1808
    Age 23
    Atlantic slave trade abolished.

    Name Meaning

    English (of Norman origin) and Irish: habitational name from Norman French de Londres ‘of London’, Gaelicized in Ireland as de Londras.English: variant of Lander , with post-medieval excrescent -s.German and Dutch: patronymic from Lander . Compare Landress .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Lander
    Landress

    Sources (9)

    • Stephen Landers in entry for Mary Eliza Sayre, "Minnesota, Birth and Death Records, 1866-1916"
    • Stephen Landers, "United States Census, 1860"
    • Stephen in entry for John T. Landers and Mary C. Parker, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"

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