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Landers, Martha

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Last Name Landers
First Name Martha
Middle Name
Maiden Name Turner
Death Date 7/5/1918
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Source Information The Landers Family of Central Indiana/One Hundred Men
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Spouse 1) Washington Conduitt; 2) Franklin Landers
Survived By Three daughters, Miss Julia Landers, Mrs. Timothy (Pearl) Harrison, and Mrs. James W. (Martha) Thompson; one son, Thomas Ewing Landers.
Other Father: Rev. William Turner of Bloomington. Married Washington Conduitt; he died three years later. In 1866, she married Franklin Landers, who was 20 years older than she was. "She and her father made a Presbyterian out of Franklin Landers, and he gave the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church here $5,000 when they built the church at 11th and Meridian Street. He made a Democrat out of her." Martha and Franklin had seven children together: William (who died in infancy), Franklin (died age 4), Dwight Conduitt (died 1918), Julia Ethel, Pearl, Thomas Ewing, and Martha Esther. Congressman Landers died Sept. 11, 1901.
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