Cemeteries: WPA Records of Landis Burial Ground, Brothersvalley Township, Somerset County, PA 
    
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    Cemetery Name:          Landis Burial Ground
    Survey Date:            circa 1934
    State:                  Pennsylvania
    County:                 Somerset
    City/Town/Township:     Brothersvalley Township
    Cemetery Location:      Situated in Brothersvalley Twp. on the farm now owned by Robert Fritz, 
                            on a hill north west of the buildings about 40 rods, 
                            and about the same distance south of the shaft opening of the Brothersvalley Coal Co.
  
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    LAST-NAME    FIRST-NAME                    BIRTH-DATE       DEATH-DATE      AGE/AGED      INSCRIPTION and ADDL-INFORMATION
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    LANDIS       Ananias                       .                16 Sep 1887     68y 1m 1d     Loving friends weep not for me, I long to be at rest.
    LANDIS       Jacob                         .                27 Sep 1870     22y 7m 29d    s/o Ananias & A. Landis
    LANDIS       John                          .                .               .             .
    LANDIS       John                          24 Apr 1785      19 Apr 1868     .             .
    LANDIS       Elizabeth (RISHEBARGER)       28 Sep 1788      Aug 1839        .             maiden name Rishebarger
    LANDIS       John                          .                19 Apr 1839     86y 1m 19d    .
    LANDESAN     Elizabeth                     21 Feb 1760      19 Jul 1818     58y 5m        here rests
    ------       Sutter                        31 Apr 1816      Aug 1817        .             Sutter ist born
    UKNOWN       adult                         .                .               .             not inscribecd
    UKNOWN       adult                         .                .               .             not inscribed
    UKNOWN       adult                         .                .               .             not inscribed
    UKNOWN       child                         .                .               .             not inscribed
    UKNOWN       child                         .                .               .             not inscribed
    UKNOWN       child                         .                .               .             L. R.
    BRANT        Jacob                         .                20 Jun 1865     4y 6m         s/o S. & S. Brant
  
  
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    LAST-NAME    FIRST-NAME                    BIRTH-DATE       DEATH-DATE      AGE/AGED      INSCRIPTION and ADDL-INFORMATION
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    (LANDIS)     (Harry)                       .                .               .             one depression, no stone (grandfather of Jim)
    LANDIS       Catherine                     3 May 1818       29 Jun 1839     21y 2m 26d    w/o Henry Landis
    UNKOWN       child                         .                .               .             not inscribed
    UNKNOWN      child                         .                .               .             not inscribed
    (PENROD)      (Benjamin)                   .                .               .             adult grave, B. P. (f/o  Mrs. Henry Dickens)
    UKNOWN       child                         .                .               .             not inscribed, no stones (likely members of the Rayman family)
    UNKNOWN      adult                         .                .               .             not inscribed, no stones (likely members of the Rayman family)
  
  TOTAL 22 graves