Individual Details
Henrich Landis Senior
(Abt 1700 - Nov 1760)
Preacher Heinrich Landis, Sr. emigrated in 1717 with his parents. He was ordained a Mennonite minister at Hammer Creek by 1744. He warranted 147 acres in Warwick Township on 8 January 1733. On 20 December 1753, he bought land from his brother, Benjamin, in Manheim Township. In 1755 he and Anna, his wife, donated one acre of the land Anna had inherited from her father, Hans Graff, for the Groffdale Mennonite Meetinghouse and Cemetery.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1700 | , , , Switzerland | |||
| Marriage | Abt 1731 | Veronica Groff |  | ||
| Death | Nov 1760 | Manheim, Lancaster, PA | | ||
| Marriage | Maria Kneisley | ||||
| Alt name | Henry Landis Senior | ||||
| Alt name | Henrich Landes Senior | ||||
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Families
| Spouse | Maria Kneisley ( - ) |
| Spouse | Veronica Groff (1710 - 1751) |
| Child | Maria Landis (1732 - 1788) |
| Child | Frena Landis (1732 - 1779) |
| Child | Anna Landis (1734 - 1791) |
| Child | Christina Landis (1735 - 1779) |
| Child | Barbara Landis (1736 - 1779) |
| Child | Susanna Landis (1736 - 1811) |
| Child | Elisabeth Landis (1743 - 1781) |
| Child | Magdalena Landis ( - 1798) |
| Child | Margaret Landis (1743 - 1805) |
| Child | Catherine Landis (1747 - 1815) |
| Child | Henry Landis Junior (1751 - 1791) |
| Father | Hans Jacob Landis (1667 - 1730) |
| Mother | Anna Witmer (1671 - 1730) |
| Sibling | Feliz Landis ( - ) |
| Sibling | Jacob Landis (1694 - 1728) |
| Sibling | Johannes "Ephrata John" Landis (1696 - 1756) |
| Sibling | Benjamin Landis Senior ( - ) |
| Sibling | Barbara Witmer Landis (1705 - 1782) |
| Sibling | Anna Landis ( - ) |
| Sibling | Christian Landis (1717 - 1771) |
Notes
Will
Preacher Heinrich Landis, Sr.'s will is J-1-139, Microfilm Vol. I-K, Image 316.Endnotes
1. Best, Jane Evans, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families" (Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Volume XIII, Number 2, April 1990, Pages 9-25), 13.
2. Bittinger, Emmert F., "Ancestors and Descendants of "Hill" John Landis (1779-1858) of Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." (Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. April 2001, pages 27-32). Email: ebitting@bridgewater.edu, page 29.