Butler County (Missouri, USA)
Butler County, Missouri, was the home of a small group of Old Order Amish Mennonites from about 1920 to 1924. About 15 families, consisting of settlers mostly from Reno County, Kansas, including families of Miller, Bontrager, Glick, Amstutz, Troyer, Hostetler, Chupp, and Mast, lived in the area between Poplar Bluff and Harviell. The one and only minister of the group was Chriss Bontrager. The settlement was never very substantial, and in 1924 most of the Amish moved 50 miles (80 km) east to Scott County and to other states. The Amish buried a few of their people in the county, but later took up their remains and shipped them to Kansas.
| Author(s) | John A Hostetler |
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| Date Published | 1953 |
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Hostetler, John A. "Butler County (Missouri, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 21 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Butler_County_(Missouri,_USA)&oldid=170588.
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Hostetler, John A. (1953). Butler County (Missouri, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Butler_County_(Missouri,_USA)&oldid=170588.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 486. All rights reserved.
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