WITMER, Anna Barbara
Abt 1671 - Aft 1725 (> 55 years)-
Name WITMER, Anna Barbara Birth Abt Nov 1671 Canton Zurich, Switzerland 
Gender Female Death Aft 1725 Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States Person ID I853 Strom Hess and Lewis Family Tree Last Modified 15 Sep 2024
Father WITMER, Ulrich E, b. 1 Dec 1633, Biglen, Canton, Bern, Switzerland d. 1685, Friedelsheim, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (Age 51 years) Mother EBY, Barbara, b. 17 Feb 1639, Rüegsau, Bern, Schweiz d. Abt 1700 (Age 60 years) Marriage 9 Aug 1666 Biglen, Bern, Switzerland Family ID F305 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family LANDIS, Jacob, b. 1667, Sinsheim, Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich d. 13 Apr 1730, East Lampeter, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Age 63 years) Marriage 1688 Zürich, Switzerland Children 1. LANDIS, Rev. Heinrich, b. Abt 1700, Heiliges Römisches Reich d. Abt Nov 1760, Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Age 60 years)2. LANDIS, Jacob Witmer, b. 1694, Steinsfurt, Baden, Germany d. 1722, Lampeter, Lancaster County, Province of Pennsylvania (Age 28 years)3. LANDIS, Johann, b. 6 Mar 1696, Steinsfurt, Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich d. 14 May 1756, Ephrata, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 60 years)4. LANDIS, Rev. Benjamin, b. 2 Sep 1697, Zurich, Switzerland d. 1781, Conestoga Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (Age 83 years)5. LANDIS, Barbara, b. Abt 1705, Zurich, Switzerland d. 17 Jul 1782, Lampeter Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 77 years)6. LANDIS, Anna Witmer, b. 19 Apr 1707, Rohrbach, Bavaria d. 14 May 1756, Cocalico, West Cocalico, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (Age 49 years)7. LANDIS, Christian, b. 1717, Steinsfurt, Baden, Germany d. 1771, Mecklenburg, North Carolina (Age 54 years)Family ID F302 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Sep 2024
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Event Map 
Birth - Abt Nov 1671 - Canton Zurich, Switzerland 
Marriage - 1688 - Zurich, Switzerland 
Death - Aft 1725 - Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - [[Category: Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category: Swiss Anabaptist Immigrants]]
{{Palatine Migration}}
== Biography ==
Anna was born in 1671 in Canton, Zurich, , Switzerland, daughter of [[Witmer-50|Ulrich E. Witmer]] and [[Eby-341|Barbara Eby]]. She married [[Landis-159|Hans Jacob B. Landis]] in 1688 in Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland, and travelled with him to America c.1717, arriving in Pennsylvania in 1722. (Source needed)
An unsourced Findagrave entry gives that she died on 1 Jan 1725 and is buried in an unmarked grave site in the Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery.UNSOURCED Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67090737/anna-barbara-landis: accessed 04 August 2022), memorial page for Anna Barbara Witmer Landis (Nov 1671–1 Jan 1725), {{FindAGrave|67090737}}, citing Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Jack Gilchrist (contributor 47124171).
She passed away in 1730 in Lancaster, Province of Pennsylvania.
==Notes==From earlier version of profile : The WITMER family were Anabaptists in the Emmental in Kanton Bern. WITMERs were among the exodus of Anabaptists from Bern in 1671. She immigrated to America with her husband and at least 5 children among the big group of Mennonites arriving in Philadelphia 24 Aug 1717. The preceding year, 1716 (but not in 1724), a Hans WITMER was recorded as a Mennonite at Wachenheim (near Lambsheim) in Oberamt Neustadt, Pfalz, along with Hans HIRSCHI (still there in 1724), Hermann Christoph (still there), Hans Jakob GRAF (still there), and Josef REBER. A Jakob WITTMER was already in the Pfalz in 1665, where he shows at Reien, in Amt Dilsberg, Oberamt Heidelberg. She also appears as Anna EBY / EBBE WITMER, so perhaps her mother really was an EBY.
== Sources ==
- [[Category: Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]