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== Biography ==
Hans Jacob was christened on January 31, 1647 in Hirzel, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, the sponsors were Jacob Scharen and Magdalena Baumann. [LDS Film 996924 Hirzel KB image 28 page 50.] Jacob was the ninth child of ten children born at the home farm Moosacher located in Hirzel, to [[Landis-502|Hans Heinrich Landis]] and [[Bollier-23|Magdalena (Bollier) Landis]] between 1633 and 1649,
At the dedication of baby Hans Jacob [Landis-1199], the sponsors were: Jacob Scharen and Magdalena Baumann. The home/farm was Moosacher, Hirzel. Hans is listed or identified in the Samuel Wenger book as 1.3.4a.8.9. Patrilinearly and working back in time he was the ninth child born of the eighth-born of the first wife of the 4th child of the of the 3rd child of Johannes [Landis-132] and Katharina [Schinz-2]. Mentioned on page 48 under code: <1.3.4a.8.9> of source 2.
Sources1. LDS Film 996924 Hirzel KB image 32 page 57 for the birth of Jacob or Hans Jacob Landis.
2. "A Combined Landis/Landes Genealogy Report of the Descendants of Hans Landis and Katharina Schinz" compiled by Samuel E. Wenger and published in 2005 by the Mastoff Press.
== Biography ==Hans Jacob Landis was born 31 January 1647 in Hirzel, Zurich, Switzerland.He died 30 January 1712 near Sinsheim, (now in Baden-Wuerttemberg), Germany, He married Verena Schneider in Rohrbach, near Sinsheim, Germany. Hans Jacob and Verena were the paternal grandparents of [[Landes-271|Christian Landes]] [Landes-271] immigrant to the New World in 1736. Hans Jacob and Verena's son Heinrich [Landis-305] was the father of Christian Landes, [Landes-271] a Mennonite immigrant to Pennsylvania in 1736. Christian's son, John [Landes-270], by his first wife, Barbara [Strickler-495], was the progenitor of the Landes family in Rockingham and Augusta Counties of Virginia. Christian's son, Daniel [Landes-268], by his second wife, Maria [Büchsler-1], married his half-brother John's daughter, Barbara [Landes-269]. They were raised together from age two following the death of [Landis-271] in 1782. Christian's gravestone has been found in the Heindel Burial Grounds in Windsor Township, York County, Pennsylvania. A picture of the gravestone is on the cover of the "Mennonite Family History" of April 1995.
[ [https://www.masthof.com/products/mennonite-family-history-back-issue-112 Mennonite Family History Volume XIV Number 2, published quarterly. 10 W. Main Street, PO Box 171 Elverson, PA 19520-0171.]]
[James Landes | [Landes-150]]
== Sources ==
* LDS Film 996924 Hirzel KB image 28 page 50.
* "A Combined Landis/Landes Genealogy Report of the Descendants of Hans Landis and Katharina Schinz" compiled by Samuel E. Wenger in 2005. Mastoff Press.
* Census Record for 1643 Moosacher: 1643 Hirzel census for Moosacher shows Hans Heinrich Landis and his wife Magdalena Bollier (Anabaptists in exile) and 5 children – Vereneli(10), Barbli(7), Gredi(5), Hans Heinrich(2) and Osli(1/2). {This census clearly shows that there is a second child named Oswald or Osli being the diminutive form now aged 6 months (1/2 - year). The firstborn Oswald born in 1633 would have been age ten.} It also does not show a sister, Anna or Klianna who was born and died between the census of 1633 and 1643.
*[https://www.lmhs.org/memberdb/PMH/PMH/1995-01.pdf Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage - Volume XVIII, Number 1 - January 1995 - Pages 13 to 18 - Landis Families of Canton Zurich, Switzerland by S. Michael Wilcox - LS1254]
::LS1254 Jacob Landis, [? Hans Jacob Landis, d. Jan. 30, 1712, age 64, Rohrbach; attended Steinsfurt meeting in 1661.:::m. Verena Schneider, b. ca. 1649; d. Oct. 16, 1713, age 64, Rohrbach.] (14)
::(14) Karl Diefenbacher, Schweizer Eimvanderer in den Kraichgau nach dem Dreissigjiihrigen Krieg (Sinsheim: Heimatverein Kraichgau, 1983), p. 202 (no. 5253). The rationale for tentatively placing Rudolf Landis (ca. 1662 - Apr. 5, 1705) and Jacob Landis (ca. 1667 - 1730) as sons of LS125 Hans Heinrich Landis will be explained in the April 1995 issue of Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. Jacob (d. 1730) could be a son of LS1254 Jacob Landis and Verena Schneider.
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Bef 1647 - 1712 (> 65 years)