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Name: John "Hill" LANDIS
Sex: M
Birth: 18 Apr 1779 in Manheim Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania ^b
Death: 23 Jan 1858 ^d

Parents:

Father:
Henry LANDIS Birth: 4 Mar 1751 Death: 4 Jan 1791

Mother:

Mary ERB Birth: Abt 1753 Death: Before 3 Apr 1818

Family:
Marriage:

Margaretta SNAVELY on 20 May 1800 .^m1
Margaretta SNAVELY Birth: 19 Aug 1783 Death: 24 Aug 1855

Children:

Elizabeth Snavely LANDIS Birth: 7 Dec 1801
John Snavely LANDIS Birth: 2 Jun 1803 Death: 31 Mar 1871
Mary LANDIS Birth: 2 May 1804
David LANDIS Birth: 6 Sep 1805 in Manheim Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 25 Dec 1863 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Margaret LANDIS Birth: 18 Jun 1807 Death: 25 Nov 1888 in Neffsville, Manheim Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Anna LANDIS Birth: 4 Dec Abt 1807
Jacob LANDIS Birth: 18 Feb 1810 in Manheim Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 3 Mar 1874 in Shelby, Richland Co, Ohio
Henry S LANDIS Birth: 28 Jun 1811 in Manheim Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 27 Mar 1883 in Petersburg, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Leah LANDIS Birth: 27 Feb 1813 in Neffsville, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 18 Dec 1878 in Marion Twp, Allen Co, Ohio
Magdalena S LANDIS Birth: 8 Apr 1814 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 27 Aug 1814 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Susanna S LANDIS Birth: 14 Sep 1815 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania

Bibliography

Bittinger, Emmert F, Ancestors and Descendants of "Hill" John Landis (1779-1858) of Manheim Township, Lancaster County, PA. In Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Apr 2001. LMHS Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bittinger LANDIS p[0-9]*].
Groff, Clyde L, Walter B Groff, Jane Evans Best, The Groff Book, Ronks, PA: Groff History Associates, 1985. NYPL APV (Groff) 86-1589 v1. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: GroffCL GROFF p[0-9]*].
Biographical Annals of Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Spartonburg, SC: Reprint Publishers, 1985. Orig pub 1903. LMHS rF157.L2B6 1985. Available at http://archive.org/details/biographicalanna00megi and at http://archive.org/details/cu31924028852998 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: LancasterCoPA Biog p[0-9]*].
Landis, D. B., Landis Family of Lancaster County, PA. Lancaster, PA: author, 1888. UMI G192. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=SRoxAAAAMAAJ. Also available at http://archive.org/details/cu31924029842402. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: LandisDB LANDIS p[0-9]*].
Slabaugh, John M, Henry Landis of Warwick and Manheim Townships, Lancaster Co, PA. In Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, vol 7 no 4, Oct 1984. NYPL APR (PA) 82-1017. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Slabaugh LANDIS p[0-9]*].
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: Bittinger LANDIS p29, LandisDB LANDIS p53]; after 1776 [Ref: GroffCL GROFF p56],
place:: [Ref: LandisDB LANDIS p53],
parents:: [Ref: GroffCL GROFF p56, Slabaugh LANDIS p23, WengerSS WENGER p1064],
mother:: [Ref: LandisDB LANDIS p53]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

father:: John LANDIS [Ref: LandisDB LANDIS p53]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: Bittinger LANDIS p29, LandisDB LANDIS p53]

Sources with Information about marriage to Margaretta SNAVELY

date:: [Ref: Bittinger LANDIS p29, LandisDB LANDIS p53],
child:: [Ref: Bittinger LANDIS p30, Bittinger LANDIS p31, LancasterCoPA Biog p864, LandisDB LANDIS p53, LandisDB LANDIS p55, LandisDB LANDIS p58, LandisDB LANDIS p59, LandisDB LANDIS p61, LandisDB LANDIS p63]

Research Notes:
Jan 2 1793: Orphan Court appointed Benjamin Landis, a neighbor, as guardian [Ref: Bittinger LANDIS p28]

lived at southern edge of Neffsville at the end of Kreider Ave in Manheim Twp [Ref: Bittinger LANDIS p29]

Pedigree of John "Hill" LANDIS
                                                       /-----Hans LANDIS
                                              /-----Hans LANDIS
                                             |         \-----Katharine SCHINZ
                                     /-----Hans LANDIS
                                    |         \-----Barbara HOCHSTRASSER
                            /-----Hans Heinrich LANDIS
                           |        |         /-----Uli ERTZINGER
                           |         \-----Elsbeth ERTZINGER
                   /-----Hans LANDIS
                  |         \-----Barbara BUELER
          /-----Henry LANDIS
         |         \-----Anna GOOD
/-----Henry LANDIS
|        |                                    /-----Hans GRAF
|        |                           /-----Jakob GRAF
|        |                          |         \-----Elsbeth PETER
|        |                  /-----Marx GRAF
|        |                 |        |         /-----Jacob SPORRI
|        |                 |         \-----Anna SPORRI
|        |         /-----Hans GROFF
|         \-----Veronica GROFF
|                 |                           /-----Peter KUNDIG
|                 |                  /-----Jorg KUNDIG
|                 |         /-----Hans Jagli KUNDIG
|                 |        |         \-----Barbel HUFFELBERG
|                  \-----Susanna KENDIG
|                          |         /-----Martin MEILI
|                           \-----Elsbeth MEILI
|                                    \-----Barbara BAR
John "Hill" LANDIS
|         /-----Jacob ERB
\-----Mary ERB
          \-----Magdalena SCHRANTZ

Descendants of John "Hill" LANDIS

1. John "Hill" LANDIS m. Margaretta SNAVELY

m. Margaretta SNAVELY father: John SNAVELY mother: Elizabeth BARR

2+ Elizabeth Snavely LANDIS m. Jacob STONER

3+ John Snavely LANDIS m1. (Unk) HEISE m2. Anna FRANKFORT

4+ Mary LANDIS m. Jacob GROSSMAN

5+ David LANDIS m. Anna FRICK

6+ Margaret LANDIS m. Daniel GEIB

7+ Anna LANDIS m1. Peter GRUBE m2. Joshua SNYDER

8+ Jacob LANDIS m. Mary A MILLER

9+ Henry S LANDIS m. Susan MILLER

10+ Leah LANDIS m. Daniel GRUBE

11 Magdalena S LANDIS