STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, February 15, 1899, page 1, column 6 Jacob Landis, 10 April 1830 - 08 Feb 1899 At his home about three miles south of Angola, February 8th, 1899, Jacob Landis, aged 68 years, 9 months and 10 days. The subject of this sketch was born in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, April 10th, 1830, removing from that county to Columbiana county, Ohio, at the age of eleven years. Thence the family removed to Malone county, and soon after to Wood county, where he remained eighteen years. Mr. Landis was united in marriage in 1850 to Sarah Apple, who now survives him. In 1863 they removed to Steuben county, Ind., where they have since resided on the farm where Mr. Landis died leaving the aged wife and mother, with six children to mourn their loss. Of Mr. Landis' quiet, humble, uneventful life in the neighborhood where he lived, several traits of character stand out brightly and prominently, viz: Sterling integrity of character, straight forward, simple-hearted honesty in all his relations with his fellow man. The purity and nobility of his life is unquestioned. In the discharge of all public duties he was a faithful, earnest and patriotic citizen. But it was in his domestic and family relations that our quiet, though cheerful neighbor shone at his best for, utterly without ambition as to public preferment and honor, he devoted his life to his family with unaffected kindness and indulgence. His home and his family were first in his thoughts and care. Every day and night of the long and painful illness which terminated his life, all borne with patience and fortitude, there were constantly recurring evidences of his tender regard and thoughtful care for whose whom he had seen grow up around him from prattling babes to sturdy manhood and womanhood. To the best of the writer's knowledge, Mr. Landis never made a formal profession of christianity until just before his death. The calmness and serenity with which he awaited the final summons indicates clearly that through the integrity of his life he felt that he had nothing to fear or dread in the future life. Always revering sacred things he had, perhaps, unknown to himself, carried all his life in his heart the essential principle of righteousness, and who can say that his gentle, simple, kindly life was not accomplished through the influence of the Divine Teacher. His final assumption of the outward forms of the church was the consummation, rather than the beginning of a good life. Good bye, to husband, father, neighbor and faithful friend - until we meet beyond the River. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Jacob and Sarah (Apple) Landis, who died 30 Nov 1913, aged 83 years, 6 months and 2 days, are buried at Pleasant Lake cemetery, Steuben County, Indiana, per "Cemeteries of Steuben Co., Ind., 1990" by Audree Siebel Lewis, Vol. II, page 1091. Submitted by Mona Hilden-Beckwith e-mail: hilbeck123@att.net