"One night in 1643, the beadles attacked the house of Verena Landis, an elderly sister. They made such a tumult that Verena became faint and sick and could not go with the servitors of the authorities. She was thereupon compelled to "promise that she would remain a prisoner in her own house, which promise she accordingly fulfilled." As she was harshly treated and supplied with poor provisions, death soon resulted." [1]
See also [2]
[1] David Bachman Landis, The Landis family of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: 1888), 11, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[2] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 23, person LS34.