"El" married Benjamin Franklin Landes on 29 October 1876 at Shore, Indiana in Lagrange County. Ben was born in Holmes County, Ohio on 26 May 1852, the son of Alpheus and Barbara (Miller) Landes. They had seven children:

Harvey Edward (1877-1955)
Frances Mina (1879-1966)
George Dennis (1884-1980)
Clemence Earl (1886-1929
Thomas Neal (1892-1982)
Bessie Belle (1895-1981)
Bryan Leroy (1897- )

The funeral of Mrs. Ella Landes Thursday, January 23, 1941, at Tiskilwa marked the end of a long and eventful career. At an early age her parents and grandparents migrated by covered wagon to Missouri and a few years later traveled back to Indiana by the same method. There, at the age of 18 (19?) she met and married Benjamin F. Landes. A few years later, after the birth of their two oldest children, Harvey and Mina, the little family moved to McPherson County, Kansas, where Grandpa Landes had settled on the open prairie a few years previously. Ben, as he was called, erected a dugout (or sod shanty) and where there were still large herds of buffalo, it was one of the chores of Mrs. Landes and Harvey to collect buffalo chips. This was the only fuel available save prairie grass which was cut and twisted into tight ropes. During one severe blizzard which lasted four days, they saved their lives by burning four bushels of seed corn they had stored under the bed.

After several years of pioneering in Kansas they came back to Indiana where they lived until the fall of 1898. They then moved to White Cloud Michigan where Mr. Landes had purchased an eighty acre tract of cout over land. Here the pioneering started all over again. A house had to be built, land cleared and put to crops. The family lived there until the spring of 1907 when they followed their two sons, Harvey and Dennis, and daughter Mina, to Bureau County. Illinois, and have lived in the vicinity of Tiskilwa until the death of Mr. Landes on February 26, 1936.

Mrs. Landes was very active in the Ladies Aid of the Mennonite Church of Tiskilwa and served for a time as it's president. This organization is known for its excellent work in quilting and sewing for the foreign missions. Grandma Landes' fine and even stitches will be found in many a quilt of early American design long years after she has gone.

Her sterling character and friendly disposition gained for her a host of friends, who with her relatives, six children, four sons and two daughters, twenty-seven grandchildren, and seventeen great-grandchildren mourn her passing and who hope to be reunited with her in life hereafter.

Rev. Nunnemaker, pastor of the Mennonite Church at Tiskilwa was in charge of the service. Burial was in Mt. Bloom Cemetery.