Eine Wurzel: Tennessee John StoltzfusThis biography of Tennessee John Stoltzfus (1805 1887), a true Amish Mennonite, is filled with drama, with successes and failures, with joys and sorrows, and with fulfillment and frustration. He was the great grandson of Nicholas Stoltzfus who migrated from Germany in 1766. John married Catharine Holly (1807 1884) and had 15 children. This is their storyfrom Lancaster Co., Pa., to Knox Co., Tennessee. (192pp. illus. reprinted 2014.)

and a month-by-month year on the Shoemaker Homestead in 1907

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duty and conscience

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while chapter two covers the history of the John B

This book covers their descendants

) along the Conestoga River in the early 1700s

a resume of what each person has been doing along with what they plan to do

Enos Hartzler (1824-1899) married Nancy Burkholder (1830-1916) in Wayne Co

The Shenk and Stoner families are central with other surnames: Brenneman

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