Ezra
Lantis was son of Samuel
Lantis born Amwell Twp.
Hunterdon Co. NJ. Nov 7, 1770 died
Preble county 1832
married Asenath Garber born May 16, 1782 died
Preble countySep, 18, 1822 They married May 28, 1700
Franklin co. Va.
Your
Levi took out a marriage license May 30, 1867 to marry
Catharine Mikesell. Mariage was not recorded
Landes (
Landis, Lantes,
Lantis) Family. The family traces its ancestors back to
Hirzel, near
Zurich, Switzerland to the 16th century to Johannes
Landes and his wife Katharina Schinz. Hans
Landes, their son, was beheaded in
Zurich in 1614 for *anabaptist beliefs. Many Brethren families also stem from another son,
Rudolph (b. 1547), whose descendant *Johann
Heinrich Landes (1683-1726) and his wife Elizabeth
Hirt Landes arrived in Pennsylvania from the Alsace and settled on the Schuylkill River before 1723. On Christmas Day of that year they became Brethren through baptism at Germantown by *Peter Becker. Landes fathered three daughters and a son, *Heinrich
Hirt Landes (1716-1809), who married Elizabeth
Naas, daughter of *Johannes
Naas. Heinrich's second marriage was to Catherine Graff.
Henry
Naas Landis, Jr. (1740-1825, m. Mary Carver, Elizabeth Fishbourn) moved to
Franklin co., VA, ca. 1790. Their neighbors were the families of elders Peter Eichenberg and Jacob
Miller. These three patriarchs moved to the
Ohio frontier with married children in the early 1800s. Michael
Landis moved to Montgomery Co., OH, from Swatara, PA, ca. 1828. He was elder at
Wolf Creek until he led the *Landisites away from the church. The Landises have been very active in southern
Ohio. The organizational meeting for the Old
German Baptist Brethren was held Nov. 25, 1881, at Abraham Landis'home in the Salem district.
Westward settlement of the family has included
Indiana,
Illinois, North Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, and
California.