Brief Life History of John Thomas
When John Thomas Landers was born on 7 July 1870, in McMinn, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Erving Landers, was 22 and his mother, Mary A. K. Smallwood, was 21. He married Anna Victoria Ingold on 4 November 1890, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in McAlester, Pittsburg, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Okemah, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, United States for about 1 years. He died on 26 October 1962, in Okemah Township, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Okemah Township, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, United States.
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- John T Landers, Sr, "United States 1950 Census"
- John T E Landers, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- John Thomas Landers, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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.
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