1848 Odd Fellow of the Day Samuel Landrum

This page in the ledger book is dedicated to Samuel LANDRUM  There's a chance Samuel is related to William LANDRUM from a previous IOOF post.  Other names mentioned on the page are John MORGAN, Thomas HARRIS and what appears to be John L. UTTERBACK.  Entries cover the time period of 1848-1850.

On the off chance that they are the same person I am including the information I found in the 1850 Census.  Perhaps S. Landrum is Samuel.  Perhaps his 17 year old son William is the William I mentioned above.  Perhaps not though because he's only 17.  I have no clue  if there was a minimum age to become a member of the Oddfellows.  Anyway, maybe some of the information here will help someone else with their own genealogical brick walls.

Name:	S Landrum
Age:	49
Birth Year:	abt 1801
Birthplace:	Virginia
Home in 1850:	District 4, Weakley, Tennessee
Gender:	Male
Family Number:	141
Household Members:	Name Age S Landrum 49 Martha Landrum 49 Lucy Landrum 21 Nancy Landrum 19 William Landrum 17 Mary Landrum 12 Robert Landrum 10 Harriet Landrum 6 Lucy Landrum 10

1848 Odd Fellow of the Day William Landrum

I want to preface this post by saying that William LANDRUM is not the only LANDRUM listed in the Odd Fellows book.  In addition, there is a page for Samuel LANDRUM and W.P. LANDRUM which will be covered in later posts.

I don't really want to get into trying to figure out the genealogy of every person listed in the 1848 Ledger Book although goodness knows I do try! So I'll tell you what I find from a brief search and I hope that other people might stumble onto the page and say hey, that person is my great great uncle.  And then maybe they'll send me some biographical information to add to the post.

Having said all that...

I found a William LANDRUM listed in the 1850 Slave Census for Weakley County Tennessee.  He must've been very well off because he owned 27 slaves at that time.  In addition, I found a William LANDRUM living in the household of William P. LANDRUM in the 1870 Census for Dresden Tennessee.  The elder William is 58 years old, meaning he would've been born about 1812, and it said he was born in Virginia.  William P. LANDRUM was 32 years old and born in Tennessee.  The occupation for both LANDRUM s is "grocer".  Which begs me to wonder is William P. the son of the elder William?    Is William P the W.P. LANDRUM listed on another page of the Odd Fellows Ledger Book?  I would think so but can't be certain.  Also, I ran across a few genforum posts that indicated William LANDRUM had a son named Samuel.  Is that Samuel the same Samuel listed in the Odd Fellows Book?

One other interesting note, William LANDRUM lives in dwelling number 359 in the 1870 census.  Living just down the road in dwelling number 355 are B.D. IRVINE, his wife Agnes Moran, their brood of children and also John Williamson Moran and his aunt, Eliza Moran.

Small world.

The top part of the ledger page was devoted to William LANDRUM.  Beneath appears to be transactions of the lodge entered by the bookkeeper.

I don't know what all of the transactions are for but here are the names mentioned:
Thomas BOWERS
Thomas B. FRIZELL
A.W. KING
James E. BONDURANT
J.W. HARRIS

At the bottom it says "This settlement was made June 14th/51 by H.C. McCUTCHEN & E.J. WHITE as Committee appointed by the Lodge & the Order was filled and given to Bro Landrum... $326.39