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Family HistoryFamily History - Samuel I. Landers


Key:1.“+” before a child’s name indicates the child has their own entry in the next generation.
 2.“born xxxx” indicates the child is under 18 years of age so the birth date is not shown.
This family history features Samuel I. Landers and his immediate family.



First Generation
1. Samuel I. Landers,1 born ____ (parents not determined). Samuel married, 5 April 1893 in Wood County, Ohio, Ora Anna Cunning3, 4 (born 8 February 1874 in Wood County, Ohio, the daughter of Hiram Raymond Cunning and Ellen Beolia Tefft;1, 2, 3 Ora died 28 September 1893 in Ohio1, 3). Ora is buried in Plain Township Cemetery, Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio.1

  1. Find a Grave (website). Plain Township Cemetery, Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, Oreanna Cunning Landers, born: 8 February 1874 in Wood County, Ohio; died: 28 September 1893 in Ohio (from record, which includes a note: daughter of R. and E. Cunning. Wife of S.I.Landers; and provides the names and links for her parents and two siblings [the individual names Flavilla is her aunt, not her sibling]).
  2. U.S. Federal Census, 1880, Ohio, Wood County, Washington, E.D. 103, Page No. XX [20], Hiram Cunning, 38, Ohio, farmer; wife Ellen Cunning, 36, Ohio; daughter Orianna Cunning, 6, Ohio; son Hiram J. Cunning, 4, Ohio; daughter Lilly Cunning, 1, Ohio; mother-in-law Marcie Teft, 79, New York, widow [sic, she is actually Ellen’s grandmother].
  3. Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1897 (available at archive.com). Page 625-26, biographical sketch of Hiram Cunning, who married Ella Tefft, daughter of L. P. and Phoebe Ann (Adams) Tefft. The sketch provides vital and biographical details and the names of Hiram’s parents (Hiram and Keziah (Raymond) Cunning), Hiram and Ella’s children (Oreanna, Hiram T., Flavilla, and Irene Myrtle), Phoebe’s three siblings (an infant child, Florence G., and Lorin P.).
  4. Ohio, County Marriages 1789-2013/2016, Wood County, affidavit no. 5993, Samuel I. Landers and Ora Anna Cunning, married on 5 April 1893.