1775 Elizabeth [Mellinger] Landis was born on August 11, 1775. [1]
Elizabeth Mellinger reportedly married Jacob Landis. [2]
1837 Jacob Landes, spouse of Elizabeth Landes, died on February 11 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was born on February 16, 1756 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, son of John Landis and Anna Catherine Landis. [3]
1850 Elizabeth Landes (age 81) lived in Ephrata Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Nancy Landes (55), and Elizabeth Landes (35). [4]
1857 Elizabeth Landes, spouse of Jacob Landes, died on February 26 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She was born on March 5, 1769. She was buried at Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [5] [6]
1876 Son Jacob Landes, spouse of Magdalena Landes, died on August 29 in Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was born on January 2, 1803 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, son of Jacob Landes and Elizabeth Landes. [7]
1853 Magdalena Landes, spouse of Jacob Landes, died on November 3 in Pennsylvania. She was born on February 23, 1807 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Jacob Wissler and Anna Wissler. [8]
A biosketch reports [9]:
The Landis families in this township are partly descended from the Mohlers, as a daughter of Jacob Mohler and granddaughter of Ludwig Mohler, the pioneer, married a Mellinger, and Mellinger's daughter married a Landis, from which sprang the Landis family of Ephrata.
A biosketch reports [10]:
Jacob Landis married Elizabeth Mellinger. Four of their children grew to maturity: Maria, Elizabeth, Anna, and Jacob, jr. None of these married except the latter son.
Mennonite card file. Jacob Landis was born on February 16, 1756. [11]
[1] Find A Grave Memorial 58754117, [FindAGrave].
[2] Scott A. Mellinger and Philip T. Mellinger, "The Mollingers/Mellingers of the Cocalico Valley" Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley 33 (2008), 54, person H13.
[3] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[4] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[5] Find A Grave Memorial 58754117, [FindAGrave].
[6] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[7] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[8] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[9] Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches (1883), 834, right column, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[10] David Bachman Landis, The Landis family of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: 1888), 50, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[11] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].