 Landers-Cain House, Sweetwater (Lawrenceville), Georgia  According the the web site of the Eli P. Landers SCV Camp 1724, the home was built by Humphrey Davis Landers, who also donated the land for the Sweetwater Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery. The house was moved to this location from a high traffic corner in 1996. The Landers family was one of the
founding families
of the adjacent Sweetwater
Primitive Baptist Church
which is located on the north side of Pleasant Hill Road, between
present day
Club Drive and Cruise Road. Sweetwater was a community in
its own
right for many years, appearing on historic maps of Gwinnett County
Eli Landers was a member of Company H, Howell
Cobb's 16th Regiment of Georgia Infantry Volunteers, known as the Flint
Hill Grays.
His letters were published in the book "Weep
Not for Me, Dear Mother" by Elizabeth Whitely Roberson (Pelican
Press). If you are interested in reading more about Eli and
the Landers family, and the Cain family who purchased the farm in
1901, please visit the links at the bottom of this section.
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