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Teaching Kids Leadership
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- So what can adults do to help kids learn leadership?
- A rose by any other name is still a rose
- Natural Consequences Versus Coaching and Correcting
- Help Kids Develop Improved People Skills
- Five Year Old Laments 'My sister is making me mad!'
- Socratic question-based discussions
- Have the child report on what they saw that day'
- Great question for the adults trying to teach kids
- Teach Kids How to Deal With Stress Well
- Teach Kids the Pareto Principle, the 80/20 Principle
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- Watching Examples and Discussing with the Youth to Help Them Process What They Saw
- Trust is crucial to leadership
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- Defining Leadership
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- How young is too young to start?
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- Scouts provides opportunities to practice leadership
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- So why should anyone take on the challenge of leadership?
- The Beginning of My Journey of Discovery
- The Paradox of Service to Others
- The Well Trained Mind
- Vertical Leadership is not where kids typically start out
- What about cultural differences?
- What can children pick up about leadership anyway?
- What is age-appropriate for teaching kids leadership?
- What is the Payoff for the Hard Work of Leadership?
- What lessons did I learn trying to develop leadership in my own children (so far)?
- Who cares about leadership?
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- How do we measure our current character?
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- Children Can Learn Leadership
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Family History
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- Family History Introduction
- Historical Timeline
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Our Lanham Paternal Lineage
- Josias Lanham Family 1628 (Not our direct line)
- Other Siblings and Cousins in the Curtis Harden Lanham Generation
- Other Siblings and Cousins in the Hiram D. Lanham Generation
- Other Siblings and Cousins in the John Lanham (1661) Generation
- Other Siblings and Cousins in the Jonathon Lanham (1630) Generation
- Other Siblings and Cousins in the O.S. Lanham Generation
- Other Siblings and Cousins in the Robert Lanham (1560) Generation
- Other Siblings and Cousins in the Sylvester Lanham Generation
- Other Siblings and Cousins in the T.B. Lanham Generation
- Other Siblings and Cousins in the Thomas Lanham (1701) Generation
- Other Siblings and Cousins in the Thomas Lanham (1757) Generation
- Our Lanham Line - The Paternal Lineage
- The Amanda Francis Lanham Family
- The Andrew Shepherd Family
- The Archibald Lanham Family 1751
- The Benjamin Garfield Lanham Family
- The Burress and Ida Roberts Family
- The Calvin Powell Dorsey Family
- The Charles Selby Family 1762
- The Clifford Wayne Lanham Family
- The Curtis Harden Lanham Family 1813
- The Curtis Harden Lanham Family 1875
- The David Lanham Family 1595
- The Edward James Holt Family
- The Edward Lanham Family 1685
- The Elmer Harn Family
- The Emmitt F. Welborn Family
- The Eugene WILLIAMS Family 1855
- The Frank Robinson Family
- The Gideon Wilburn Ashley Family
- The Hiram Demarcus Lanham Family 1845
- The Issac Elam Family 1803
- The Jacob Shepherd Family 1812
- The James Bedford Ray Family (Cliffie M. Lanham)
- The James Kennedy Family
- The Jasper Shipman Family
- The Jeremiah Lanham Family 1755
- The Jesse Elam Family 1782
- The Joe A. Madden Family
- The John Hendrickson Corely Family
- The John James Roberts Family
- The John Lanham Family 1661
- The John Lanham Family 1690
- The John Nicholas Jacks Family 1740
- The John T. Scott Family
- The Jonathan Hammer Cook Family
- The Jonathan Lanham Family 1630
- The Josias Lanham Family 1590
- The Oran Stroud Lanham Family 1916
- The R.J. Craighead Family 1907
- The R.J. Craighead Family 1907
- The Richard Lanham Family 1697
- The Robert Lanham Family 1584
- The Roger Lanham Family 1560
- The Stephen Lanham (1726) Family
- The Stephen Lanham Family 1760
- The Stephen Lanham Family 1784
- The Sylvester Lanham Family 1790
- The Thomas Benton Lanham Family
- The Thomas Berry (T. B.) Lanham Family 1882
- The Thomas Lanham (1757) Family
- The Thomas Lanham Family 1700 or 1701
- The Thomas Sisk Family 1858
- The W.T. Lanham Family 1850
- The Walter Lee Ray Family
- The William Curtis Lanham Family
- The William Lanham Family 1699
- The Willie Green Scott Family
- The Wortha Leon Lanham Family 1907
- Reference Materials
- Rockwall Cemetery Listing, Rockwall, Texas
- The 2006 Journey to Find Thomas Lanham's Grave Site
- The Lanham family of Wortham (Research Details)
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The Maternal Side of Our Family Lines
- The A. Sion Wheeles Family
- The Aaron Jones Family
- The Abednego Chandler Family 1752
- The Adrian Alford Colbath Family 1893
- The Alex L. Baker Family
- The Alford Nolen Jones Family
- The Andrew Jackson (Jack) Kitchens Family
- The Beall Family
- The Benjamin Colbath Family 1758
- The Chisel True Baker Family
- The Daniel Horne Blackmore Family
- The David Amick Family
- The George Henry Slattery Family
- The J. E. Sisk Family
- The James McHale Family
- The John C. Colbath Family 1820
- The John Chandler Family
- The John Jones Family
- The John Lacey Family (bef 1778)
- The John Patrick Carmody Family
- The John Sappington Family 1723
- The Larkin (Lark) Patrick Williams Family
- The Lazarus Rufus Jones Family
- The Leah Unknown Family
- The Luther Jason Head Family
- The Luther Troup Baker Family
- The Mason Jones Family
- The Michael Gonzales Family
- The Michael Yost Family
- The Patrick Joseph Merrick Family
- The Patrick Merrick Family 1883
- The Patrick Williams Family
- The Perry Rufus Jones Family
- The Peter Logan Yost Family
- The Quirke Family
- The Richard Head Family 1802
- The Richard Merrick Family
- The Robert Chandler Family 1687
- The Stephen Grey Family 1894
- The Thomas Edmonson Head Family
- The Thomas Lacey Family 1808
- The Thomas Winthrop Colbath Family 1851
- The William Estes Family 1785
- The William J. Roberts Family
- The William Milton Jacks Family
- The William Patrick Williams Family
- The Willis Ashley Family
- The Winthrop Colbath Family 1786
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Family History Introduction
Comments
In the early days of the settlement of the American Colonies, before the Revolution (1775-1783) over half of the immigrants to arrive in the Colonies south of New England were indentured (bonded) servants.
Many of the servants were transported criminals. From the English point of view, transporting felons to America as servants was a humane an sensible solution to the crime problems. For others who lacked the means or money, desired to come to America, the master paid the price of passage across the Atlantic and guaranteed them food, clothing and shelter in America. In turn the servant agreed to work without pay for a term of usually three to five years. At the end of that time the master was responsible for giving his servant a chance for a fresh start in the world. After fulfilling their obligation and becoming a free man, were entitled to make claim to fifty acres of land for their services.
In 1663, 13 out of 30 members of the House of Burgesses, the Virginia Colonial Legislature, had come to the colony as servants. Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln, both had ancestors who were servants.
We do know from records available that there were a number of Lanham families in Prince Georges County, Maryland prior to 1708. Among those who came from England as indentured servants were:
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Josias Lanham in 1668 -settled in Kent County
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John Lanham in 1678 -settled in Charles County
The village of Lanham, Maryland, just east of Washington D.C., commemorates the early Lanham immigrants. It is said to have been named for one BENTON LANHAM. However; according to Paul Trueman Lanham a Lewis Lanham settled in the area in 1812. One of his sons, Trueman Lanham I, married Mary Ann Beall. He acquired about 600 acres including most of what is Lanham, MD. Trueman’s second wife, Mary Ellen Tucker of Riva, MD sold/gave land to the Baltimore-Potomac railroad in 1868 for rail right of way and in 1873, 1.97 acres was set aside for the LANHAM Station.
Lanham Centennial Souvenir book (1972).
In order to better visualize the times and conditions of our early pioneer forefathers, we include a brief history of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Texas and Oklahoma, so that you can imagine some of the hardships they endured as they moved westward, traveling on foot, horseback or wagon on land and rafts and flat bottom boats on the rivers.
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Kent County was an original county created in 1642.
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Charles County was an original county created in 1658
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Prince George’s County was created 1695 from Charles and Calvert Counties.
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Fredrick County was created 1749 from Prince George’s County.
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Montgomery County was created 1776 from Frederick County.
When Prince George’s County was first formed, its boundaries were the Pawtuxet River on the East, the colony of Pennsylvania on the north and the Potomac River and the distant Blue Ridge Mountains on the west. Prince George’s County gave most of the land for the building of the nation’s Capital, the District of Columbia in 1791.
Thomas Lanham and Sarah, conveyed to John Hawkins Jr., a merchant, land called "Sandy Thickett", 26 March 1739, for 1200 pounds of tobacco. Many legal papers in these early days in Prince George’s Co. mentioned the name of John Hawkins Jr.
John Hawkins, Justice of the Peace in Madison County, Ky. took depositions from both Thomas and his brother Stephen in 1836, reference to Revolutionary War Service by Thomas Lanham. He stated he had known them both for many years, indicating the families had been together in Maryland.
The Baxters, Fowlers, Sappingtons, and Thomas Lanham, went from Maryland after the War to Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), then to Boonesborough, Kentucky (Virginia at that time). Most of the Sappingtons went on west to Illinois and Missouri, where John Sappington established a Trading Post in Missouri and the present town of Sappington is located just south of St. Louis. There were several Lanham families in Missouri, in the early 1800’s especially in the area where Daniel Boone lived and died in 1825, and in the St. Louis area. We know some of these Lanham’s came from the Thomas and his brother Stephen Lanham, of Madison, Kentucky in addition to our direct line, Sylvester Lanham, who went to the Platte Purchase in Northwest Missouri, and then to Dallas, Texas, where he was one of the early pioneers and settlers.
According to a national name data bank, in 1981, there were just over 2,500 Lanham families in the U.S. By 2006 the number is over 3,000. Kentucky has the most Lanham families, followed by West Virginia, Texas, Ohio, California and Indiana.
This information on the Lanham Family and associated families as presented has been compiled from information from family members and relatives, census reports, visits to numerous cemeteries, cemetery records and other items and books of factual interest in addition to records and information from several Historical and Genealogical Societies, from the various states.
When Oran Stroud Lanham first created this information back in 1984, he had already put some 13 years of research into the endeavor. He did not have a computer nor did he have access to the Internet. He researched the data from census reports, books, and visits all over the eastern seaboard, records search, and relatives. He typed the initial content on a Royal typewriter and used carbon paper for additional copies. The original published book was about 130 pages in length, and some twenty copies were mailed to various libraries.
Oran Stroud Lanham’s efforts have left our family a legacy of understanding and pride in the Lanham Family and in particular Our Lanham Line.
After Oran’s death in 1991, his son Clifford W. Lanham picked up the mantle and continued the Lanham search as it related to our line and some of the relatives. Kevin also began helping. See the revision history for details of changes and authorship.