The Oberholtzer StoryThe book begins with the plight of the persecuted Oberholtzers of the Anabaptist faith in Switzerland and follows their eventual immigration to Pennsylvania. Research provides detail for six successive generations of the Oberholtzer family in Lancaster Co., Pa., beginning with the 1727 immigrant Samuel Oberholtzer. Through the journals of Nathan Oberholtzer (1864 1923), one finds a good glimpse of Pennsylvania farm lifestyle and Mennonite church life

Information on most of these families begins in mid-18th-century France and continues until the end of the 19th century

topographical descriptions of every township

was named for the vast amounts of hemp raised there

and occupations are listed for residents

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Subtitled "Cocalico

and a yowling kitty— they're all here too

Stained gold page edges and simulated leather cover

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Other surnames listed in the index include Derstine/Dirstine

With the thought of "There's nothing worse that I can see

Valley of Conviction to the Merry Village