Where born: Augusta Co VA Where died: Mt Carmel Son of: John Landes* & Delilia Married: 1865 Clarissa Sears* Lived at: 1860 Buck-Edgar Co IL 1870-1900 Mt Carmel Children: - infant son* (1867) -
Pauline S* (1868 IL m: Edward F. Eichorn) -
Herbert Sears* (1870) -
Eliza Sears* (1872) -
Buelah Sears* (1872) -
infant daughter* (1874) -
Bernard Sears* (1877 m: Irene Bradshaw*) -
Eliza* (22 Nov 1878) -
Grace Sears* (21 Nov 1880) -
infant daughter* (1884) -
infant son* (1884) -
infant son* (1886) -
infant son* (1887); Silas US Congressman; admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1863 and was prosecuting attorney of Wabash County- 1872 to 1884 - ; 1885 elected as a Democrat to the 49th -
50th Congresses serving until 1889; declined to be a candidate for re-nomination and resumed the practice of law; 1891 elected circuit judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of IL -
served until 1897.
