(including Woodford County)
Joseph Peter Staker has written an extensive and thoroughly documented history of 103 Amish Mennonite families that settled in Tazewell and Woodford Counties 1830-1856.
His five-volume, 1,533-page book has been placed on our website as Adobe Acrobat searchable PDF files that you can download for free!
Updated July 2021.
Part One of Five: Historical background. Belsley, Engel, Oyer, Roggy/Rocke, Ropp, Schertz, Staker, and Vercler. 244 pages, 313 footnotes, 4.33 MB.
Part Two of Five: Abersoll, Bachman/Baughman, Beck, Beckler, Camp, Donner, Farny, Gerber/Garber, Gingerich, Kennel, Kistler, Leman, Mosiman, Nafziger, Oswald, Ruvenacht, Salzman, Schrock, and Schweizer. 254 pages, 205 footnotes, 3.56 MB.
Part Three of Five: Ackerman, Augspurger, Birky/Birkey, Brenneman, Cender, Eigsti, Hauter, Heiser, Ingold, Kettner, Litwiller, Maurer, Miller, Raeuber, Rich, Risser/Reeser, Ritthaler, Roth, Schick, Sommer, Stalter, Steinman, Sutter, Ulrich, Unzicker, and Zimmerman. 268 pages, 237 footnotes, 3.57 MB.
Part Four of Five: Ehresman, Goldsmith, Good, Hochstettler, Kauffman, King, Kinsinger, Lantz, Neuhauser, Oesch/Esch, Petersmith, Plank, Rediger, Ringenberger, Schwarzentraub, Smith, Stutzman, Yordy, Zehr, and Zook. 272 pages, 275 footnotes, 3.43 MB.
Part Five of Five: Beller, Dellenbach, Dettweiler, Egli, Eichelberger, Eiman, Ernst, Gascho, Grubb, Habecker, Householder, Imhoff, Jantzi, Klopfenstein, Martin, Moser, Orendorff, Ramseyer, Roeschley, Schantz, Schlabach, Schlegel, Sharp, Springer, Steider, Strubhar, Stucky, Wagler, Wagner, and Yoder. 315 pages, 263 footnotes, 3.81 MB.
Appendix: The Deep Snow of 1830; The Blackhawk War of 1832: The Battle of Stillman’s Run, Surrender, and Chief Shabbona of the Potowatomi; Lawyer Abraham Lincoln on the Eighth Circuit: Engel’s Place at Hanover, The Shields Challenge at Tremont, and The Goings Trial at Metamora; Owen Lovejoy and Abraham Lincoln; David Davis and Abraham Lincoln; Life in Prairie Land; Tazewell County Townships; Military Acquaintances: Reust, Brickler, De Guibert, and Chlopicki; Landes and Landes Mennonite Cemetery; Passenger Lists; The Lewis County, New York Settlement: The De Chaumonts and the Castorland Company, Joseph Bonaparte, Kiefer/Kieffer, and Hirschy/Hirschey; Helvetii; Names; von Diesbach; Laws of Canton Bern; The 1783 Anabaptist Census of Basel; Swiss Legends; Hans Reist; Freyenberger; Bürcki/Buerge; Steiger; Zwalter; The Puzzle of Barbara Eyer; Wolber of Königsbach; Albrecht of Bureau County; Boshart; Holi/Holli/Holly; Eicher; Kurtz; Fahsbender; Esch of Lancaster County; Pennsylvania Dellenbachs; Peter Stuky; Rŭbi/Roby/Ruby; Christian Berger; Nebraska John Naffziger; Bender and Putnam County; Conrad; Bosiger; Paternity; and An Anabaptist. Acknowledgements. 182 pages, 155 footnotes, 3.01 MB.
