In Memoriam: Mrs. Tabitha Ogilvie Rushing Landis(1820-1895)

 

Mrs. Tabitha Ogilvie Rushing Landis

Born:  June 16, 1820

Died:  October 30, 1895 at Maxwell Tennessee.

Became a Christian in early life and a member of Union Ridge Baptist Church at Rover in 1890.

She married 1st  to Milton Richmond Rushing and they had at least 3 children:  William Ogilvie Rushing, John Keele Rushing and Nancy J Rushing Hodges.

She was widowed 1889 and married Bryant Landis in 1890.  Bryant was the widower of her sister, Margaret Ogilvie Landis. I do not currently know where she was buried.  I would have thought she might be buried in the Ogilvie or Landis Cemetery, near either husband.  I believe her children predeceased her but she did have grandchildren so need to check out where they are buried.

Sources:

Baptist and Reflector, December 26, 1895, p 15, col 2; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/baptist-and-reflector-tabitha-landis-obi/205864335/ : accessed September 12, 2026), clip page for Tabitha Landis-obit.

Lessons & the search for something positive among the negatives

Things I think Ancestry should have done before launching the New Ancestor Discoveries.

• Proofread all press releases and ad banners twice.  Proofread them again for good measure.
• Checked terminology.  An Ancestor is a person from whom one is descended
• Not assumed that the researchers didn't want to research to discover....some of us like the thrill of the chase and finding the documents to prove or disprove our theories.
• Be realistic in what you can deliver.  I love enthusiasm about a new product or service..but overstating what can be done...and adding more detail than necessary makes me doubt any future products or services..moreso if that detail actually shows the shortcomings of the product.

If there is anything positive coming out of Ancestry's New Ancestor Discoveries campaign, I think that it forces me to examine my research more closely which is always a good thing.  I'm reminded of the Logic Puzzles that used to be in the Dell Crossword Puzzle books.  What do the New Ancestor Discoveries tell me.

• My Mom shares a good bit of DNA with Descendants of Alfred Patton Fleming & Nancy Hitchcock Fleming(because their children were double cousin with her GG Grandparents) This would be Hitchcock and/or Fleming DNA.
• I share a good bit of DNA with Descendants of Milton  M Rushing because my GG Grandparents are both kin to him.  This would be Frizzell and/or Weaver DNA.

I will be looking forward to new discoveries.  I can't wait until it scans the Eoff, Jakes, Sutton, Craig, Knox and Morrow families.  I know that I have DNA from those as I had an X segment match with 6 distant cousins from those families.