When Daniel Andrew Landis was born on 11 May 1851, in Brushy Run, Pendleton, Virginia, United States, his father, Jesse Landes, was 42 and his mother, Christena Frances Kimble, was 19. He married America Rebecca Dolly on 13 October 1877, in Pendleton, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Mill Run District, Pendleton, West Virginia, United States in 1880 and Union District, Pendleton, West Virginia, United States for about 30 years. He died on 30 November 1934, in Pendleton, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Dolly Cemetery, Riverton, Pendleton, West Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
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Swiss German and South German: nickname for a highwayman or for someone who lays waste to the land, Middle High German landoese. The surname of Swiss German origin is also found in France (Alsace), where it is rare. Compare Landes and Lantis .
Americanized form of German Landers 3. Alternatively, an altered form of Landers 4. Compare Landess .
History: The ancestor of many of the Americans with the surname Landis was Christopher (or Christian) Landis or Landers from Germany who settled in VA (now WV) in the middle of the 18th century and later moved to NC. The original form of his surname is not known; both the surnames Landis and Landers are found in Germany and they are both established among his descendants, as is the (other) Americanized form Landess. — This is also the name of a Swiss Mennonite family, originating from the canton of Zurich, whose members settled, after the expulsion from Switzerland in the 17th century, in the Palatinate, Germany, and in Alsace, France, or immigrated to America. In both Germany and America the change of the name from Landis to Landes occured. In the first half of the 18th century there were several Mennonites named Landis or Landes who immigrated to PA. The town of Landisville in Lancaster County, PA, is named for one of them.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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