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  • Name: John LANDIS
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 3 Mar 1761 in Lampeter Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania b
  • Death: 4 Apr 1827 d


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Abraham LANDIS Birth: 1734 in Lampeter Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1790
  • Mother:
  • Maria BEAR Birth: 1732 Death: 1802

Family:
Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Best, Jane E, European Roots of the Bear Families of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: An Update, in Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Jan 1984. LMHS. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Best BEAR-Euro p[0-9]*].
  2. Davis, Richard Warren, Emigrants Refugees and Prisoners, Vol III. Provo, UT: author, 1999. NYPL APK 01-2370v3. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Davis Emigrants v3p[0-9]*].
  3. Abstracts of Lancaster Co PA Wills 1786-1820. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1995. NYPL APR (Lancaster Co PA) 97-984 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: LancasterCoPA WillAbs2 p[0-9]*].
  4. Lancaster County Pennsylvania Register of Wills, Wills, 1730-1908, SLC: GeneSocUT, 1947. Will Book 1J 1747-1830, LDS Film#0021358#2. Lancaster County Court House, Office of Records and Archives, 50 N Duke St, Lancaster, PA. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/005534204 images 347-8. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: LancasterCoPA Wills J-201].
  5. Landis, Ira D, Early Lancaster County Mennonite Mussers, in Mennonite Research Journal vol 17 No 2, Apr 1976. LMHS. Available (for purchase) at https://www.lmhs.org/research/lmhs-publications/research-journal/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Landis EarlyMussers p[0-9]*].
  6. Musser, Edgar A, Musser Genealogy. Lancaster, PA: author, 1980. LMHS CS71.M9892 1980. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p.*].
  7. Wenger, Samuel S, The Wenger Book, Lancaster, PA: Pennsylvania German Heritage, 1978. NYPL APV (Wenger) 86-601. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WengerSS WENGER p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Davis Emigrants v3p234, MusserEA MUSSER p117]
1761 [Ref: Best BEAR-Euro p26, MusserEA MUSSER p108, WengerSS WENGER p1089],
place:
[Ref: Davis Emigrants v3p234],
parents:
[Ref: Best BEAR-Euro p26, Davis Emigrants v3p234]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p117]
1827 [Ref: Best BEAR-Euro p26, Davis Emigrants v3p234, MusserEA MUSSER p108, WengerSS WENGER p1089]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth MUSSER
names:
[Ref: LancasterCoPA WillAbs2 p151, LancasterCoPA Wills J-201, Landis EarlyMussers p22, MusserEA MUSSER p108, MusserEA MUSSER p117, WengerSS WENGER p1089]
John LANDIS & ___ MUSSER [Ref: Best BEAR-Euro p26]
Research Notes:



Pedigree of John LANDIS
                                                       /-----Hans LANDIS
                                              /-----Hans LANDIS
                                             |         \-----Katharine SCHINZ
                                     /-----Hans LANDIS
                                    |         \-----Barbara HOCHSTRASSER
                            /-----Hans Heinrich LANDIS
                           |        |         /-----Uli ERTZINGER
                           |         \-----Elsbeth ERTZINGER
                   /-----Jacob LANDIS
                  |         \-----Barbara BUELER
          /-----Benjamin LANDIS
         |         \-----Ann WITMER
 /-----Abraham LANDIS
|         \-----Maria WEBER
John LANDIS
|                  /-----Martin BAR
|         /-----Martin BARR
|        |        |         /-----Michael MAYER
|        |         \-----Anna Magdalena MAYER
 \-----Maria BEAR
         |                                    /-----Hans GRAF
         |                           /-----Jakob GRAF
         |                          |         \-----Elsbeth PETER
         |                  /-----Hans Heinrich GRAF
         |                 |        |         /-----Jacob SPORRI
         |                 |         \-----Anna SPORRI
         |         /-----Hans GROFF
          \-----Anna Elisabeth GROFF
                   \-----Anna LICHTI



Descendants of John LANDIS
1. John LANDIS m. Elizabeth MUSSER
m. Elizabeth MUSSER father: Martin MUSSER mother: Maria (MUSSER)