Notes and Links

• m1. Jack Weems Quarrier (1909-1977); divorced in 1945
• Margaret and Jack ahd 3 children:
  • John Chilton Quarrier, II; b. Sep 23, 1934
    • m. Jo Ann Brown; b. June 16, 1936, and had 2 children.
  • Philip Harrington Quarrier; b. Sep 7, 1936
    • m. Mary Hess; b. Oct 8, 1938, and had 3 children
  • Camille Elizabeth Quarrier; b. Jan. 11, 1942.
    • m. Phillips Verner Bradford; b. June 15, 1940.

• m2. Howard Roscoe Driggs (1873-1963), on Sep 26, 1948, in the Danforth Chapel of the University of Kansas, Lawrence KS.

Brief Biography

Margaret's mother, Lillie Edith Landers (1879-1973) was one of 8 children (5 sons and 3 daughters), of John H. Landers and Margaret Ann Swartz. Lillie was born in Villisca, Iowa.

Margaret Ann Swartz was born in Canada to William Swartz and Eunice ___?. She married John H. Landers in June 1867. John H. Landers was born in Adams County, IL in 1840, to John Landers (Sr.), by his second wife whose birth surname may have been "Harrington". He grew to adulthood in LaSalle and Bureau Counties, IL. John H. enlisted in Company H, 140th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served the Union Army 130 days during the Civil War in Tennessee, Alabama, and Missouri. He returned to Illinois and resided there in the spring of 1869. He moved then to Pilot Grove Township in Montgomery County, Iowa, where he lived for 5 years. After that he purchased a farm of 160 acres near Red Oak and moved to Villisca, where he purchased and ran a hotel and engaged in the livery and stock (cattle) business. He bought and some time later sold a farm of 160 acres in West Township, Montgomery County, and purchased a farm in the northern part of Page County, Iowa and finally settled in Corning, Iowa, in 1880 settling into the general stock (cattle) business of trading, breeding and shipping.

John H. Landers' father, John Landers (Sr.) was born in Canada in 1794, and was drafted to serve the British Army in the War of 1812, but deserted and served in the Pioneer Corps in the Service of the United States. After the War of 1812 he returned to Canada and was arrested as a deserter, and sentenced to 7 years in the British service in St. Johns, New Brunswick, where his regiment was soon after disbanded. He emigrated from Canada to Adams County, Illinois, with teams of Oxen, in 1839. Within a year, just after the birth of his son, John H. Landers, he moved his family to Knox County in the spring of 1840 where they lived for 7 years. After relocating to several other nearby places he finally settled on a homestead property near the city of Rochelle in 1853. He lived there until 1867, when he moved to Montgomery County, Iowa. He was still living in Lamoni, Iowa, in 1892 at the age of 97.

John Landers (Sr.) (b. 1794) was married twice. First to a Miss Griffin in Nova Scotia, by whom he had two children:

• A son, who died as a young man, from falling off of a masthead of a ship at sea.
• A daughter, who married William Small and became a resident of Harrison County, Iowa by 1892.

• Catherine Landers, m. Charles Stedman
• Alexander Landers, resident Washington County, Kansas in 1892.
• John H. Landers
• Henry Landers, who died of disease following wounds attained while serving in Battery G, 2nd Illinois Artillery of the Union Army during the Civil War.

John Landers (Sr.)'s father, raised in the Colony of New York, was enlisted for 7 years in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. However, for reasons unknown, he settled in Canada after the war.

References

• Rootsweb biographies of Mongomery County, Iowa, 1892