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, slave owner, and ran a wagon freighting franchise - 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."