Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley ;
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
This issue contains the transcription of the 1869 diary of Clay Township resident Samuel R. Hess, and provides a day-to-day look at the life of a typical Mennonite farmer and businessman. The diary has been indexed by name and provides a list of local residents with whom Hess had contact with.
"A transcription of commentary on the separation of the Stauffer (Pike) Mennonites from Lancaster Conference...Jacob W. Stauffer wrote a Chronicle to explain and defend his position after he and his supporters separated from the Lancaster Mennonite Conference. The book was not published until after his death...Abraham S. Martin was ordained a minister in the Groffdale Mennonite church after Jacob W. Stauffer withdrew to form a new group, called the Stauffer (Pike) Mennonites. In his copy of Jacob W. Stauffer's book...he wrote a number of comments about matters on which he disagreed with the author. He desired that anyone who read the book would know his viewpoint regarding the contents of the book...Below are the fifteen pages of notes with the page number at the beginning."
The Aby family of Peoria County, Illinois : the Eaby family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : progeny of Theodorus Eby (1663-1732), the Swiss Mennonite pioneer of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
"Clyde was hatched late in the spring the year Ada was eight years old. Ada loved him from the first moment she saw him and watched with increasing fondness as Clyde grew into a fine mallard drake. They became constant companioins in all the many summer joys of Pennsylvania Dutch farm life." [book jacket]
"A boy had to ride sometimes, or he would burst in pieces! Twelve-year-old Dirk, a son of the plain people, dearly loved his family and would not have traded shoes with any city boy. But, still, the ways of his people were so -this way exactly and no other way! It was hard to want to ride a horse so badly he 'could taste it,' and to have to forego the pleasure because 'a horse is to work.'" [book jacket]
