JOSEPH ALLEN LANDER was born on the "Cane Ridge Farm" in Bourbon County, Kentucky, February 25, 1812. He grew to be six feet, three inches tall and well proportioned. While still in his teens he fell into some bad habits and was considered a tough case, but he was happily converted and joined the old Donaldson Presbyterian Church about 1835. A great many folks got religion and joined the church in those days. Cholera was abroad in the land! He steadily grew in grace during the rest of his life. He was made an elder in the church at Flemingsburg. Later and until his death he was an elder in the church at Elizaville. Dr. SCUDDER, his pastor, wrote of him: "As a citizen few men in the community in which he lived enjoyed so universally its friendship and confidence. He had drawn around him a large circle of friends by his integrity, his genial disposition, his high Christian character and firmness of principle which would yield to nothing unmanly or wrong".
He married his cousin, KITTIE SPENCER, March 13, 1834, and by her had ELIZA, as already noted. After the death of his first wife he married my mother, CATHERINE O. ROBNETT, September 26, 1842. She was a daughter of MOSES ROBNETT and MARIA L. KENNEY. MOSES was a soldier in the War of 1812. (I have one of the pistols he carried in that war.)
My father owned a fine farm on Stoner Creek near Paris. About 1854 he sold that and bought a slightly place on the Maysville pike just north of Flemingsburg. He built a large house and a big fish pond between the house and the pike. One of my earliest recollections is of the drowning of an Irish laborer in that pond. He was in bathing one night with several others. I have never since heard the frogs croak as on that occasion. Shortly afterward my father sold that place and bought the BRUCE farm on Johnson Creek, two miles north of Elizaville.
Our residence on the BRUCE farm was not for long. Father died January 5, 1862, and my mother followed on March 13. Their remains were carried back to Bourbon County and interred in the ROBNETT family graveyard, where two of their children had already been buried. From the second marriage there were eight children. "History of the Lander Family of Virginia and Kentucky"
He married his cousin, KITTIE SPENCER, March 13, 1834, and by her had ELIZA, as already noted. After the death of his first wife he married my mother, CATHERINE O. ROBNETT, September 26, 1842. She was a daughter of MOSES ROBNETT and MARIA L. KENNEY. MOSES was a soldier in the War of 1812. (I have one of the pistols he carried in that war.)
My father owned a fine farm on Stoner Creek near Paris. About 1854 he sold that and bought a slightly place on the Maysville pike just north of Flemingsburg. He built a large house and a big fish pond between the house and the pike. One of my earliest recollections is of the drowning of an Irish laborer in that pond. He was in bathing one night with several others. I have never since heard the frogs croak as on that occasion. Shortly afterward my father sold that place and bought the BRUCE farm on Johnson Creek, two miles north of Elizaville.
Our residence on the BRUCE farm was not for long. Father died January 5, 1862, and my mother followed on March 13. Their remains were carried back to Bourbon County and interred in the ROBNETT family graveyard, where two of their children had already been buried. From the second marriage there were eight children. "History of the Lander Family of Virginia and Kentucky"
JOSEPH ALLEN LANDER was born on the "Cane Ridge Farm" in Bourbon County, Kentucky, February 25, 1812. He grew to be six feet, three inches tall and well proportioned. While still in his teens he fell into some bad habits and was considered a tough case, but he was happily converted and joined the old Donaldson Presbyterian Church about 1835. A great many folks got religion and joined the church in those days. Cholera was abroad in the land! He steadily grew in grace during the rest of his life. He was made an elder in the church at Flemingsburg. Later and until his death he was an elder in the church at Elizaville. Dr. SCUDDER, his pastor, wrote of him: "As a citizen few men in the community in which he lived enjoyed so universally its friendship and confidence. He had drawn around him a large circle of friends by his integrity, his genial disposition, his high Christian character and firmness of principle which would yield to nothing unmanly or wrong".
He married his cousin, KITTIE SPENCER, March 13, 1834, and by her had ELIZA, as already noted. After the death of his first wife he married my mother, CATHERINE O. ROBNETT, September 26, 1842. She was a daughter of MOSES ROBNETT and MARIA L. KENNEY. MOSES was a soldier in the War of 1812. (I have one of the pistols he carried in that war.)
My father owned a fine farm on Stoner Creek near Paris. About 1854 he sold that and bought a slightly place on the Maysville pike just north of Flemingsburg. He built a large house and a big fish pond between the house and the pike. One of my earliest recollections is of the drowning of an Irish laborer in that pond. He was in bathing one night with several others. I have never since heard the frogs croak as on that occasion. Shortly afterward my father sold that place and bought the BRUCE farm on Johnson Creek, two miles north of Elizaville.
Our residence on the BRUCE farm was not for long. Father died January 5, 1862, and my mother followed on March 13. Their remains were carried back to Bourbon County and interred in the ROBNETT family graveyard, where two of their children had already been buried. From the second marriage there were eight children. "History of the Lander Family of Virginia and Kentucky"
He married his cousin, KITTIE SPENCER, March 13, 1834, and by her had ELIZA, as already noted. After the death of his first wife he married my mother, CATHERINE O. ROBNETT, September 26, 1842. She was a daughter of MOSES ROBNETT and MARIA L. KENNEY. MOSES was a soldier in the War of 1812. (I have one of the pistols he carried in that war.)
My father owned a fine farm on Stoner Creek near Paris. About 1854 he sold that and bought a slightly place on the Maysville pike just north of Flemingsburg. He built a large house and a big fish pond between the house and the pike. One of my earliest recollections is of the drowning of an Irish laborer in that pond. He was in bathing one night with several others. I have never since heard the frogs croak as on that occasion. Shortly afterward my father sold that place and bought the BRUCE farm on Johnson Creek, two miles north of Elizaville.
Our residence on the BRUCE farm was not for long. Father died January 5, 1862, and my mother followed on March 13. Their remains were carried back to Bourbon County and interred in the ROBNETT family graveyard, where two of their children had already been buried. From the second marriage there were eight children. "History of the Lander Family of Virginia and Kentucky"
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