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1) Aunt Jane's Bible: Descendants of James N. Montgomery and Susannah Naff of Franklin County, Virginia
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A historical account of the hardworking farmers in rural Franklin County, Virginia, devoted to their faith as members of the German Baptist Brethren church. Their homestead was a bustling hub of activity, with eleven children running around. The hardships of the War Between the States hit the Montgomery family hard, with one son conscripted into the Confederated Army and meeting a tragic end in a Confederate army hospital.
Despite the heartbreak,...
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A single church organized in Carroll County, Indiana in 1828 evolved into multiple denominations including the Brethren Church, Church of God, Church of the Brethren, Dunkard Brethren, Old Brethren, Old German Baptist Brethren, and Old (Order) German Baptist by 1928. The Delphi Journal reported: "The Dunkard people are as fine a lot of people as one will find and in every community should be treasured highly. Carroll County is proud of her settlement...
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Rose Blocher, in charge of the Welfare Home in Peru, Indiana, left her journals of her experiences there. She was born in July 1900. Her biography is presented. She worked there for 4.5 years. The account speaks of hard work, many children to care for, and a space of 200 acres of land. There is a narrow focus on Ruth's time during 1935. Day by day accounts are given of their activities: the children attended church and Sunday School regularly and...
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Two-year-old Rosa "Rose" Blocher traveled with her Old German Baptist parents from Carroll County, Indiana, to Ward County, North Dakota, in 1902. The family moved back to Indiana in 1907, but the potential of North Dakota lured them back two years later. As a teenager, Rose became smitten with a farmhand, twenty-one years older than her, who lived and worked with her family. Her parents forbade them to marry. Twenty-one-year-old Rose spent a year...