1775 Elizabeth [Mellinger] Landis was born on August 11, 1775. [1]
Elizabeth Mellinger reportedly married Jacob Landis. [2]
A biosketch reports [3]:
The Landis families in this township are partly descended from the Mohlers, as a daughter of Jacob Mohler and granddaughter of Ludwig Mohler, the pioneer, married a Mellinger, and Mellinger's daughter married a Landis, from which sprang the Landis family of Ephrata.
A biosketch reports [4]:
Jacob Landis married Elizabeth Mellinger. Four of their children grew to maturity: Maria, Elizabeth, Anna, and Jacob, jr. None of these married except the latter son.
1857 On November 15, Elizabeth Landis died and was buried at Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [5]
[1] Find A Grave Memorial 58754117, [FindAGrave].
[2] Scott A. Mellinger and Philip T. Mellinger, "The Mollingers/Mellingers of the Cocalico Valley" Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley 33 (2008), 54, person H13.
[3] Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches (1883), 834, right column, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[4] David Bachman Landis, The Landis family of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: 1888), 50, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[5] Find A Grave Memorial 58754117, [FindAGrave].