he subject of this sketch belonged to one of the first families settling in this section. Her grandparents, Ebenezer and Olive Osborne Landers, settled on the Homestead on the East Side in March, 1787, coming to Afton, then known as South Bainbridge, from Lenox, Mass. Here her father Solomon Landers was born and after his marriage in 1830 to Elizabeth Carpenter, always lived. Ebenezer Landers was a private in the Revolutionary war, being granted a pension of $70 per annum for his services in behalf of the new nation. Margaret C. Landers was born May 7, 1843 and died May 26, 1921, being 78 years and 19 days old at her death. She was one of seven children all of whom have passed on but Sarah C. Miss Landers spent her entire life excepting six years when in California, on the home place. Of a kindly and genial nature she made and retained a host of friends and those who knew her best have many beautiful pictures to hang on memory’s wall. Ailing for six years she was a patient sufferer and was tenderly administered to by her sister and nephew. She was a member of the D. A. R. and greatly interested in it’s activities. Beside her sister she is survived by one niece, Mrs. W. V. Cowden of Watervliet and three nephews, Geo. K. Landers of Washington, D. C., Chas. J. Austin of New Rochelle, N. Y. and Arthur I. Fisher of Afton. The funeral was held from her late home Saturday, May 28 at 2 p.m., Rev. Chas. Petty of Binghampton Universalist Church officiating and burial was in the family plot on the East side. M. G. Hill, H. G. Carr, Zenas Tarble, Stowell Green, Chester Corbin and James Hyde acted bearers. The casket was covered with beautiful flowers, of which in life she was so fond, mutely testifying to the love and esteem in which she was held. [Obituary in Afton Enterprise, 9 Jun 1921]

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