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Mary Ann <I>Riegle</I> Landis

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Mary Ann Riegle Landis

Birth
Cartin, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
11 Apr 1932 (aged 90)
Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Mifflin Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Plot
8H
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Mary Ann Riegle was born in Mifflin Township, just west of the Curtin Post Office and store (misspelled as Cartin in the Find A Grave location database.) She was the youngest daughter of Benjamin Riegle and his first wife Catharine Deibler Riegle.

Siblings:
Mary J. "Maria" Riegle (1827 - 1837)
Catharine Riegle Wert (1828-1907)
George Riegle (about 1829- before 1840)
Daniel Riegle (1830 - 1842)
Susannah Riegle Landis (1832 - 1861)
Jonathan Riegle (1834 - 1888)
Elizabeth Riegle (1837 - 1893)
Benjamin D. Riegle (1839 - 1871)
Mary Ann Riegle Landis Reitz (1841-1932)
John Riegle (about 1850-???? no record after the 1850 census)

After her sister Susannah died in 1861, Mary Ann married her widower, Jeremiah Landis, about 1865 (estimate from 1900 census married 35 years). They lived west of her parents home in Upper Paxton Township (rural Millersburg) and raised the 4 surviving children of her sister.

1870 Census
Name: Mary A Landis
Age in 1870: 30
Birth Year: abt 1840
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1870: Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Killinger
Household Members:
Name, Age
Jeremiah Landis, 47
Mary A Landis, 30
Uriah V Landis, 19
Emma C Landis, 17
Hiram J Landis, 15
Ann S Landis, 12

Her husband, Jeremiah, died 28 March 1905. She married 2nd to 2 time widower, Abraham Brubaker Reist 19 September 1908 in Harrisburg. He died in 1914.

Obituary:
Mrs. Mary A. L. Reist

Mrs Mary A Riegle Landis Reist — Millersburg, April 15.--Mrs. Mary Ann Landis Reist, 90, died Monday [11 April 1932] morning at her residence at Millersburg R. D. 2.

She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Riegle for whom Riegle's Church, along the Millersburg-Berrysburg highway was named. She had five brothers and sisters [see list of 10 siblings above]. She was first married to Jeremiah Landis. Mr. Landis died twenty-eight years ago. Later Mrs. Landis married a Reist who also died several years later.

She is survived by the following stepchildren: Hiram Landis, Mary Jane, Uriah and Susan, and Mrs. T. A. Long.

Services were conducted in her home Thursday [14 April 1932] afternoon at 2 o'clock and further services were conducted in Reigle's Church at 2:30. The Rev. Jacob Martin and his son, the Rev. Abner Martin, both of Elizabethtown, officiated at request of Mrs. Reist. She was buried in the cemetery adjacent to the church.

Published in the Harrisburg Telegraph, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Friday, 15 April 1932, page 15, column 8.

Accessed via Newspapers.com and transcribed Sunday, 13 April 2014 by Eileen Lentz.

Mary Ann Riegle was born in Mifflin Township, just west of the Curtin Post Office and store (misspelled as Cartin in the Find A Grave location database.) She was the youngest daughter of Benjamin Riegle and his first wife Catharine Deibler Riegle.

Siblings:
Mary J. "Maria" Riegle (1827 - 1837)
Catharine Riegle Wert (1828-1907)
George Riegle (about 1829- before 1840)
Daniel Riegle (1830 - 1842)
Susannah Riegle Landis (1832 - 1861)
Jonathan Riegle (1834 - 1888)
Elizabeth Riegle (1837 - 1893)
Benjamin D. Riegle (1839 - 1871)
Mary Ann Riegle Landis Reitz (1841-1932)
John Riegle (about 1850-???? no record after the 1850 census)

After her sister Susannah died in 1861, Mary Ann married her widower, Jeremiah Landis, about 1865 (estimate from 1900 census married 35 years). They lived west of her parents home in Upper Paxton Township (rural Millersburg) and raised the 4 surviving children of her sister.

1870 Census
Name: Mary A Landis
Age in 1870: 30
Birth Year: abt 1840
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1870: Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Killinger
Household Members:
Name, Age
Jeremiah Landis, 47
Mary A Landis, 30
Uriah V Landis, 19
Emma C Landis, 17
Hiram J Landis, 15
Ann S Landis, 12

Her husband, Jeremiah, died 28 March 1905. She married 2nd to 2 time widower, Abraham Brubaker Reist 19 September 1908 in Harrisburg. He died in 1914.

Obituary:
Mrs. Mary A. L. Reist

Mrs Mary A Riegle Landis Reist — Millersburg, April 15.--Mrs. Mary Ann Landis Reist, 90, died Monday [11 April 1932] morning at her residence at Millersburg R. D. 2.

She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Riegle for whom Riegle's Church, along the Millersburg-Berrysburg highway was named. She had five brothers and sisters [see list of 10 siblings above]. She was first married to Jeremiah Landis. Mr. Landis died twenty-eight years ago. Later Mrs. Landis married a Reist who also died several years later.

She is survived by the following stepchildren: Hiram Landis, Mary Jane, Uriah and Susan, and Mrs. T. A. Long.

Services were conducted in her home Thursday [14 April 1932] afternoon at 2 o'clock and further services were conducted in Reigle's Church at 2:30. The Rev. Jacob Martin and his son, the Rev. Abner Martin, both of Elizabethtown, officiated at request of Mrs. Reist. She was buried in the cemetery adjacent to the church.

Published in the Harrisburg Telegraph, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Friday, 15 April 1932, page 15, column 8.

Accessed via Newspapers.com and transcribed Sunday, 13 April 2014 by Eileen Lentz.


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Aged 90 yr 7 mos and 22 days Text Num 23 Chap 13 Ver



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  • Maintained by: Eileen Lentz
  • Originally Created by: Les
  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120373046/mary_ann-landis: accessed ), memorial page for Mary Ann Riegle Landis (19 Aug 1841–11 Apr 1932), Find a Grave Memorial ID 120373046, citing Reigles Bible Fellowship Cemetery, Mifflin Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Eileen Lentz (contributor 46845642).