https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Oscoda_County_Old_Order_Amish_Settlement_(Oscoda_County,_Michigan,_USA)&feed=atom&action=historyOscoda County Old Order Amish Settlement (Oscoda County, Michigan, USA) - Revision history2024-03-29T08:35:25ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.1https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Oscoda_County_Old_Order_Amish_Settlement_(Oscoda_County,_Michigan,_USA)&diff=165368&oldid=prevSamSteiner: Text replacement - "|a1_last=Steiner|a1_first=Sam|" to "|a1_last=Steiner|a1_first=Samuel J|"2019-10-26T13:23:32Z<p>Text replacement - "|a1_last=Steiner|a1_first=Sam|" to "|a1_last=Steiner|a1_first=Samuel J|"</p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Oscoda County (Michigan, USA)|Oscoda County]] is located in the northeast portion of [[Michigan (USA)|Michigan's]] lower peninsula, not far from Lake Huron. Formerly a logging area, the [[Old Order Amish]] and [[Amish Mennonites]] who began settling there in 1900 were among the first farmers. The land was cheap, selling for $2 - $5 per acre, since it was unimproved.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Two ministers arrived in the settlement in 1901 -- Emanuel J. Schlabach from Geauga County, Ohio and David D. Schlabach from [[Minnesota (USA)|Minnesota]]. David Schlabach was ordained as the first bishop in 1903. The Amish Mennonites, pastored by Eli A. Bontrager, built a meetinghouse in 1904 and joined the [[Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Indiana-Michigan Conference]], and became known as the [[Fairview Mennonite Church (Fairview, Michigan, USA)|Fairview Mennonite Church]]. At that time the Old Order Amish has a membership of 73, and the Amish Mennonites had a membership of 53.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">By the 1940s only 40 members were left in the Old Order congregation. In December 1945 the settlement's two ministers, Ben M. Slaubaugh and Samuel A. Weaver, moved to [[McMinnville Old Order Amish Settlement (McMinnville, Oregon, USA)|McMinnville, Oregon]]. This left Bishop Levi S. Troyer alone. He died in 1954, and since one member of the settlement still owned a tractor, no Old Order bishop would assist in ordaining new leadership. The bishop of the Woodlawn Amish Mennonite Church near [[Goshen (Indiana, USA)|Goshen]], [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]] provided communion until 1968. The owner of the tractor moved away, and Old Order Amish Bishop Enos Troyer near [[Middlebury (Indiana, USA)|Middlebury]], Indiana then provided oversight for the congregation that had dwindled to seven widowed and single women.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In December 1970 some Old Order Amish families from Geauga County, Ohio settled in Oscoda County in the area of the earlier settlement. This new Old Order settlement absorbed the remaining women under its own ''[[Ordnung (Order)|Ordnung]]''. By 1982 the congregation had grown enough to divide into two districts. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Old Order Amish historian, David Luthy, regarded the latter settlement as "new," and not a continuation of the original Oscoda Old Order Amish community.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Luthy, David. ''The Amish in America: Settlements that Failed, 1840-1960''. Aylmer, ON: Pathway Publishers, 1986: 184-191.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Oscoda County, [[Michigan (USA)|Michigan]], Old Order [[Amish Mennonites|Amish]] Settlement dates back to 1900, when four families, Sam Weaver, Jerry Troyer, John Weaver, and Christ D. Miller, moved into the neighborhood of Mio in Oscoda County from [[Geauga-Trumbull Counties Old Order Amish Settlement (Ohio, USA)|Geauga County]], Ohio. A congregation was formed in 1901 with the following as ministers: Emanuel Schlabach, David Nissley, Jacob Gascho, Yost Yoder, and David D. Schlabach (ordained as bishop in 1903). The following have served in the ministry since the beginning: Jacob Gascho (ord. 1908) and Levi S. Troyer (1939), bishops; Daniel Miller, Sam Weaver, and Ben Schlabach, preachers. About 60 families both from eastern and western states moved to Oscoda County. By the 1950s the Amish began moving away. The membership in 1956 was 20.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Oscoda County, [[Michigan (USA)|Michigan]], Old Order [[Amish Mennonites|Amish]] Settlement dates back to 1900, when four families, Sam Weaver, Jerry Troyer, John Weaver, and Christ D. Miller, moved into the neighborhood of Mio in Oscoda County from [[Geauga-Trumbull Counties Old Order Amish Settlement (Ohio, USA)|Geauga County]], Ohio. A congregation was formed in 1901 with the following as ministers: Emanuel Schlabach, David Nissley, Jacob Gascho, Yost Yoder, and David D. Schlabach (ordained as bishop in 1903). The following have served in the ministry since the beginning: Jacob Gascho (ord. 1908) and Levi S. Troyer (1939), bishops; Daniel Miller, Sam Weaver, and Ben Schlabach, preachers. About 60 families both from eastern and western states moved to Oscoda County. By the 1950s the Amish began moving away. The membership in 1956 was 20.</div></td></tr>
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