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James Edward Landers

8 Jul 1873 – 9 Jul 1948

Birth	8 Jul 1873
Death	9 Jul 1948
Cemetery	Restwood Memorial Park Clute , Brazoria County , Texas , USA
Added by	Lois Martin McDonald on 09 Dec 2017
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100340439

Bio

Grandpa Lander was a Home Child from England. Home Child was a child living in poverty in England and they would ship them to Canada to work on farms for room and board...Basically Child Slavery. He came to Texas after seeing an ad for Farm Land in Danbury, Texas. Ended up working for the railroad in Houston where is first wife died. Freeport Sulfur Company went to the Houston Railroad looking for workers, so he came to Freeport to work. Changed his last name from Lander to Landers.

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Family

Spouse

• Minnie May Miller Landers 1881–1918 FaG
• Mattie Lou "Masy" McKenzie Landers 1889–1977

Children

• William Edwin "Lucy" Landers 1905–1976 FaG
• Delbert Stanley Landers 1911–1947 FaG
• Mary Louise Lander Ridings 1925–2007
• William Stanley Landers 1929–1988

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