Amish Mennonites in Tazewell County

Part One of Five:  Historical background: Bernese Anabaptists; Swiss Anabaptist Emigrants; The Amish Division; Jacob Amman of Erlenbach; Refuge in Alsace; Northern Migrations; The Second Wave of Immigration; The Packet Ships; Illinois; Woodford County; The Congregations; The Third Wave of Immigration; Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War; and The Mennonite Transition.  Belsley, Engel, Oyer, Roggy/Rocke, Ropp, Schertz, Staker, and Vercler.  244 pages, 3.49 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. 257 pages, 3.40 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. 293 pages, 3.12 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..  273 pages, 3.00 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.  317 pages, 3.80 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; Local Mormons; 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; Barbara Eyer and the Erie Canal People; Wolber of Königsbach; Albrecht of Bureau County; Boshart; Holi/Holli/Holly; Eicher; Kurtz; Fahsbender; Esch of Lancaster County; Pennsylvania Dellenbachs; Pennsylvania and Indiana Gaschos; Peter Stuky; Rŭbi/Roby/Ruby; Christian Berger; Nebraska John Naffziger; Bender and Putnam County; Conrad; Bosiger; Linder of Steffisburg; The Zook Detour; and Paternity.  Acknowledgements.  191 pages, 3.00 MB.