Felix married LOBAN Catharine in 1727 in PA. Catharine was born in 1708. [Group Sheet]

1. LANDIS Ann was born on 11 Oct 1730 in Lancaster County, PA; died on 4 May 1798 in Lebanon Co, PA.
2. LANDIS Catharine was born on 17 May 1732.
3. LANDIS Elizabeth was born on 30 Jun 1734.
4. LANDIS Henry was born on 10 Mar 1735/36 in Lebanon, Lancaster Co, Pa; died on 30 Apr 1785.
5. LANDIS Barbara was born on 19 Mar 1737/38 in Lancaster Co, PA; died on 16 Apr 1812.
6. LANDIS Peter was born on 27 Apr 1741.
7. LANDIS Felix was born on 6 Nov 1746.

Felix married ELKINS Mary in 1750 in Derry, Lancaster Co, PA. Mary was born in 1708 in Alsace, Germany. [Group Sheet]

1. LANDIS Jacob was born on 16 Sep 1752 in Lancaster County, PA.
2. LANDIS John C was born on 13 Jan 1753.
3. LANDIS Christopher was born on 7 Apr 1757 in PA.

Notes:

In The Mennonites of America by C. Henry Smith, pubished 1909:iled from Berne in 1710 and 1711. These refugees, as we saw, were scattered throughout the Palatinate and other parts of Germany. they were never in prospersous circumstances. The country was wasted by wars. The churches were poor. They hac to gain a livelihood as best they could, often by the help of their brethren in the Netherlands. At the same time came a special invitation from King George I to settle the lands west of the Alleghanies. Consequently, in February of 1717 a number of elders met at Mannheim and decided to emigrate to Pennsylvania. The Committee on Foreign Needs which had been organized some time before at Amsterdam for the purpose of helping their needy brethren in the Palatinate, and to whom these exiles now applied for assistance, discouraged the movement due to fear that they would be pressed for more s composed largely of Scotch-Irish and English. Most of Lancaster County was, as a result, mostly a Mennonite community. In the first list of tax payers taken in 1718, there was included the names of Jacob Landes, Felix Landes, and Jacob Landes Jr.erg, from whence they emigrated in 1717 to district Old Chester (now Lancaster) Co, PA, received a patent for 400 acres there in Creek near Witmer's Bridge (now East Lampeter): of Lampeter twp 1737. Mennonites. John settled in Bucks Co, PA but Felix and Jacob remained in Lancaster Co, PA.r the land. Felix sold 200 acres of the land to his son in law, Johannes Binkley, and his daughter Barbara for 100 pounds.

Felix married WITNER Rosina in 1705 in Alsace, Germany. Rosina was born in ABT. 1675 in Germany or Switzerland; died in AFT. 1739 in Lancaster County, PA; was buried in Mellinger Cem, Lampeter Twp, Lancaster Co, PA. [Group Sheet]

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It is possible that Rosina is from the Witner family in Switzerland.

Hans married SONRETER Maria in ABT. 1665 in Switzerland. Maria was born in ABT. 1635 in Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

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Imprisoned at Othenbach, he was not given anything to eat for many days, so that even some criminals that were confined near him in another place, took pity on him and managed to get some food to him...But when the doorkeeper perceived this, he was put into another prison. Finally, however, they gave him some food: but he was so impaired in his body that he could not bear food any more. Yet in his greatest distress he was carried to church, during the sermon, where he, O dreadful inhumanity! was thrown under a bench; but he soon after gave up the ghost, which he had commended into the hands of God.onscience, escaped from her bonds. But in the meantime the authorities had broken up their family, put out the children among strangers, and then sold house and furniture.d been married 3 times, first to Margareth Streler, then to Magdalene Hess, then to Adelheid Egli. It is assumed that his first 2 wives predeceased him.

Felix married EGLI Adelheid in ABT. 1625 in Switzerland. Adelheid was born in ABT. 1590 in Fischenthal, Switzerland; died in 1646 in Zurich, Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

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Adelheid was also imprisoned in Orthenbach, for nearly four years. During this period they treated her not only unmercifully, but disgracefully: they threw her into several offensive places, stripped her twice in irons, and for a time took her clothes from her every night. She afterwards escaped from prison with a good consicinece.Meantime, authorities dispersed her family, drove the children among strangers, and then confiscated her house and furniture, and sold them for 5000 florins. From Martyr's Mirror.