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Around 1880, Bishop Yost H. Yoder from the Kishacoquillas Valley settlement led nine families from Juniata County, Pennsylvania, to Gosper County in south-central Nebraska, founding an Old Order Amish settlement there in the hope of maintaining their traditional distinct church and family life.
The Amish Mennonite Church, O'Neill, sometimes called the Pleasant Hill Amish Mennonite Church, was built in 1888 in Holt County, Nebraska by a group of Anabaptist settlers. The deeply religious settlers from Germany fled military conscription and were attracted to the opportunity of the Nebraska plains.
Amish man operating a hay rake in southeast Ohio Amish children playing baseball, Lyndonville, New York. Having children, raising them, and socialization with neighbors and relatives are important functions of family in the Amish culture. Amish believe large families are a blessing from God. [1]
We had some rather intense family dynamics, but overall, the way I grew up was actually really neat. You can go to 10 different Amish communities and they have 10 different ways of doing it .
The Daily Yonder reports that as the Amish population in America grows, Amish communities — and their rural neighbors — are finding ways to adapt. Across the country, Amish populations are on ...
Eleven members of an Amish family – including a 1-year-old – were hospitalized in Pennsylvania Friday night after ingesting wild, “toxic mushrooms,” local authorities said.
Old Order Amish groups include the Byler group, Nebraska Amish in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, the Reno group, and the Swartzentruber Amish in Holmes County, Ohio. Old Order Amish subscribe to the Dordrecht Confession of Faith , a Dutch Mennonite Confession of Faith adopted in 1632.
Advocates worry cloistered communities can put kids at risk by splitting them from their parents without legal authority or outside accountability.