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My Amish Indiana: Shipshewana Walldogs, Part Fourteen: Amish Heritage
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My Thoughts About One of My Favorite Places- Northeastern Indiana's Amish Country. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Shipshewana Walldogs, Part Fourteen: Amish Heritage. One of the sixteen murals painted by the Walldogs. In Shipshewana during June 2014 was this one, with the simple message “Amish Heritage.” It can be seen on the north wall of Spector’s, a fabric store on State Road 5 which is frequented by the Amish. For more details, I turned to the book History of Lagrange County. The book goes on to say tha...
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My Amish Indiana: Shipshewana Walldogs, Part Thirteen: Heminger Garage
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My Thoughts About One of My Favorite Places- Northeastern Indiana's Amish Country. Thursday, February 12, 2015. Shipshewana Walldogs, Part Thirteen: Heminger Garage. The Walldogs mural found on the side of a building at the Shipshewana South Campground on State Road 5 is entitled “Heminger Garage.” No other clues are given, other than a car which looks to be 1930s-vintage. (My husband has a 1932 Ford hot rod, so I know about these things! Who was Mr. Heminger? May 21, 1918):. 8220; Hoosiers on Trial.
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Random Relatives: January 2014
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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Monday, January 27, 2014. 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks #4 Anna Barbara Bartschi/Bartchey. Written for Amy Johnson Crow's Challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. (click on the icon in the sidebar for details at Amy's blog). First, just the facts:. Name: Anna Barbara Bartschi/Bartchey. Born: Sep-1832, Eggiwil, Bern, Switzerland. Mar-1852, Eggiwil, Bern, Switzerland. Died: 20-Aug-1890, Wayne Co, Ohio [ Find-A-Grave memorial. Relationship to me: Great-great-great-grandmother. Besides the pi...
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Writing Your Life Story. Discovering your family's story. Have you always wanted to know more about your roots? Do you see your family history slipping away as older family members die? Do you have old forgotten family photos that are gathering dust in a closet? Do you want to get your life story down on paper (or that of a parent or grandparent), but have been putting it off? Do you have genealogy work done by a relative years ago,. Do you want to give your adult children the gift of their roots,.
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My Amish Indiana: Phone Shanties
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My Thoughts About One of My Favorite Places- Northeastern Indiana's Amish Country. Wednesday, September 18, 2013. It used to be that to communicate with my Amish friends, I’d have to write a letter. And if my Amish friends needed to make a phone call, they would walk or ride a bike to the diner down the road. But these days, phones are working their way into the Amish community—via phone shanties. A phone number is often listed, but normally it will say “VM” next to the number—“vo...I remarked to my frie...
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My Amish Indiana: Yoder, Miller, Bontrager
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My Thoughts About One of My Favorite Places- Northeastern Indiana's Amish Country. Tuesday, October 7, 2014. Yoder, Miller, Bontrager. But there was a second stream of Amish into Indiana in the mid 1800s. Those Amish came directly from Switzerland and settled farther south in Indiana, in Allen County and Adams County. Their most common surnames are (in order) Schwartz, Hilty, Graber, Lengacher, Schmucker, and Eicher. Their dialect is usually called “Swiss.”. Getting back to the northeastern Indiana Amish...
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My Amish Indiana: Going Organic
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My Thoughts About One of My Favorite Places- Northeastern Indiana's Amish Country. Friday, May 8, 2015. I’ve become a big fan of organic milk in recent years… I like the taste. And due to its higher purity and lower bacteria count, the “sell by date” is often six to eight weeks in the future—very convenient. Once a farm is “clean,” it has to stay clean. One part of that is avoiding the weed killer that is sprayed alongside the roads by the local government. Signs by the road saying &#...A committee was f...
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My Amish Indiana: H.E. Bucklen, Medicine Man and Real Estate Tycoon
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My Thoughts About One of My Favorite Places- Northeastern Indiana's Amish Country. Thursday, March 12, 2015. HE Bucklen, Medicine Man and Real Estate Tycoon. In my last post, I talked about the Shipshewana Indians. Baseball team of the early 1900s, which is pictured on one of the Shipshewana Walldogs. Bucklen’s full name was Herbert Elijah Bucklen, Sr. I searched for details about Herbert and his family on ancestry.com, and there was plenty to discover! I went to newspapers.com and found at eight of ...
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My Amish Indiana: Making Amish Buggies
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My Thoughts About One of My Favorite Places- Northeastern Indiana's Amish Country. Tuesday, April 7, 2015. Recently Gary and I were able to spend some time at an Amish buggy maker’s shop. We saw buggies in all stages of production. The supporting frame, shown in the first photo, is made of ash wood; Gary had asked if it was maple, and the proprietor said that maple isn’t as strong. Gary grabbed the poles in the front to see where it swiveled. (Answer: behind the front axle.). The finish on the buggies I ...
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