The Landers

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INDIAN WARS: Captain John Strode built Strode Station in Clark County, Kentucky. During this period of Kentucky history, Indian attacks were a constant danger in areas near the Ohio & Kentucky Rivers. Shawnee lived in Shawnee Town, north of the Ohio River in present day Indiana and Ohio. They traveled down into Kentucky for game. The battles were over land rights.

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Following the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth in 1778, Captain John Strode migrated from Virginia to Fort Boonesborough, Kentucky. He built Strode's Station in 1779 [KY Historic Marker # 1047 (one mile west of Winchester, US 60, Clark County)].

John Strode's 1st cousin, Rebecca Bryan Boone, lived at Boonesborough with her husband, Daniel Boone. Her brother, 1st Cousin William Bryan, lived at Bryan's Station (William was married to Daniel Boone's sister, Mary Boone). The Bryan siblings' mother was Martha Strode, Aunt Martha to Captain John Strode. John was first cousin to Rebecca and William Bryan. John's father & Aunt Martha were siblings.

Strode's Station was the largest and most important fortified area in Clark County during the early settlements and bloody Indian Wars. Simon Girty and Shawnee Indians attacked the station in 1781, and again in 1783. The very famous Shawnee, Tecumseh, was part of these raids. Two men were killed in the 1781 attack on Strode Station, none in 1783. The fort's burial ground was unearthed in 1965. The remains were re-interred in the Winchester Cemetery. John and his wife, Mary Boyle Strode, were buried at Strode Station. Our direct line to the Strodes, Captain John Strode, and Strode Station is Letitia Strode Lander (Captain Strode's daughter). She was born at Strode Station. She married William Lander and died at their farm in Gracey, Christian County, Kentucky.

Kentucky's Pioneer History
The Boones, Strodes, and Bryans were cousins and in-laws. They came from North Carolina Colony during the Revolutionary War and built their stockades within hiking distance of one another. They are the framework of Kentucky's pioneer history during the Indian Wars. Many of the events that happened to them have been used in movies and novels (example: The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper). Daniel & Rebecca Boone and the Strodes survived the Indian Wars. William Bryan wasn't as lucky. His wife, Mary Boone Bryan returned to North Carolina after William's death and the Battle at Blue Licks, but returned to Kentucky in her elder years.

John William Strode Lander

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John William Strode Lander
mother: Elizabeth Haggard (Lander) 1791-1835

maternal grandparents: David Haggard (1764-1790) & Nancy Dawson (Haggard) (1772-1857)
great-grandparents: Patriot Nathaniel Haggard (1723-1806) & Elizabeth Gentry (Haggard) (1731-1820), Virginia
father: John Strode Lander 1792-1846
Shawnee Chief Tecumsah died 1813 at the Battle of Thames
paternal grandparents: William Lander (1765-1845) & Letitia Strode (Lander) (1775-1855), daughter of Captain John Strode.
great-grandparents:
Veteran: Captain John Strode (1736-1805) & Mary Boyle (Strode) (1758-1829) both died and were buried at Strode Station, Clark County, Kentucky
Shawnee Chief Tecumseh was born 1768. Tecumseh was a part of many of the raids with Simon Girty against Bryan Station, Strode Station, and Boonesborough.
Henry Lander (1725-1809) & Hannah Skinner (Lander) (about 1753-about 1811)

1754-1763 The French and Indian War
1765 - King George enacted the Stamp Act
Revolutionary War - two ancestors of John William Strode Lander and two ancestors of Mary Jane Blakeley were veterans.
1775, March - Patrick Henry made his heated call for independence : "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

1776, Winter - General George Washington led 11,000 men to Valley Forge, PA to camp for the winter.
1776, Christmas Eve - General George Washington crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian soldiers at Trenton, NJ

John W. S. Lander
born: May 5, 1830
married: 1st wife Mary Bennett/died: November 25, 1848 with one child: Alice
married: 2nd wife Mary Jane Blakeley, August 12, 1851
career: farmer, land owner, and wagon freighting business
John Lander held all rights to transport goods from the Cumberland River and the Green River for merchants in Hopkinsville and Trigg County. During the Civil War, he ran guns for the Confederate Army in false bottom wagons.
children: William "Will" N., John R., Charles T., Elizabeth "Betty" Ann, Wallace & Laura C.
grandchildren: (via Bettie Lander Hopson) Guy, Mary & Bess Hopson
great grandchildren: (via Guy Hopson) Zela & Willard Hopson/(via Bess Hopson Wolfe) Dorothy Elizabeth Wolfe Southard
2nd great grandchildren: (via Dorothy) John B. Southard Jr & Elizabeth Ann Southard/(via Zela) Linda, Donna & Fay Thompson
died: December 30, 1869 (age: 39 years)

Mary Jane Blakeley (Lander)
born: September 20, 1824
married: she was 27 years old in 1851 when she married John William Strode Lander
died: September 30 1876 at age 52
her parents: Josiah "Joel" Blakeley (1800-1870) & Elizabeth Goodwin (Blakeley) (1801-1895)
paternal grandparents:
John Blakeley (1755-1836) & Jane Shields (Blakeley) (1766-past 1850)
Samuel Goodwin (1768-1843) & Sarah Brown (Goodwin) (1778-1842)
great-grandparents:
James Blakeley (born Ireland- in North Carolina by 1755)
Robert Goodwin + wife unknown
2nd great-grandfathers: James Blakeley (Ireland) & Robert Goodwin (in NC by 1755)
3rd great-grandfather: John Blakeley (born in England, died in Ireland)
Revolutionary War - two direct ancestors of Mary Jane Blakeley Lander were veterans

Bettie Lander Hopson was a child when her mother, Mary Jane Blakeley died. Bettie's grandmother Elizabeth Goodwin Blakeley raised the children. Bettie ("Granny") always spoke of her grandmother with tremendous affection, "She was the best woman that ever lived."