Alice Cortez (Rohrer) Landis (1869 - 1941)

Born 28 Sep 1869 in Lamar, Texas

Ancestors

Wife of Jason Rohrer Landis — married 21 Feb 1888 in old Christian Church, Palmyra, MO

Descendants

Died 23 Dec 1941 at age 72 in Palmyra, Marion, Missouri, United States

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Biography

Alice was born in 1869 in Texas. (The story behind her middle name is a big family mystery - all the ancestors were Mennonite, and children were usually given the mother's LNAB as a middle name....where did Cortez come from??) Her mother died when she was about 10 and her father remarried and took the family to MIssouri, where she married a cousin. She and Jason lived near Palmyra on a farm , formerly known as the Barkley place, which was purchased for them by her father-in-law, John N. Landis.She was married for more than 50 years, and celebrated a golden anniversary with Jason. They had eight children, all of whom were born on the family farm. She passed away in 1941.

Sources

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96426396/alice-landis: accessed 17 September 2023), memorial page for Alice Rohrer Landis (28 Sep 1869–23 Dec 1941), Find a Grave Memorial ID 96426396, citing Greenwood Cemetery, Palmyra, Marion County, Missouri, USA; Maintained by KQB (contributor 47654729).

• 1900 Census Miller Township, Marion, Missouri — Alice, Jason and 7 children, also brother in law Horace -"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3Z5-HZ2 : accessed 3 May 2018), Alice E Landis in household of Jason A Landis, Miller Township, Marion, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 108, sheet 3A, family 42, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,875.

• 1940 Census - Jason and Alice in household of JR, Miller, Marion, MO -"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K77C-7RN : accessed 3 May 2018), Alice C Landis in household of Jason R Landis, Miller Township, Marion, Marion, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 64-20, sheet 9B, line 49, family 194, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2128.

• Personal family history and reminiscences of Harriet Jean Landis Smith [Landis-1142], Alice's granddaughter.

• Mennonite church records - https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/60592/43954_346005-03602?pid=967921&treeid=119275846&personid=140185408153&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=HCt618&_phstart=successSource