Pike County Old Order Amish settlement (Bowling Green, Missouri, USA)
Pike County Old Order Amish settlement, near Bowling Green, Missouri, began in December 1947, when Jacob M. Beachey and his sons moved here from Jay County, Indiana. A church was organized on 29 February 1948, with Jacob J. Miller as minister of the group, and Christ M. Bontrager of Buchanan County, Iowa, as bishop. The congregation is now (1958) divided into two districts, the South District having 55 members, with Jacob J. Miller as bishop and Joseph E. Miller and P. M. Borntrager as preachers, and the North District, 68 members, with Peter Girod as bishop and Jacob J. Schwartz, John M. Schwartz, and Jacob W. Eicher as preachers.
| Author(s) | Jacob J Miller |
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| Date Published | 1959 |
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Miller, Jacob J. "Pike County Old Order Amish settlement (Bowling Green, Missouri, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 16 Apr 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Pike_County_Old_Order_Amish_settlement_(Bowling_Green,_Missouri,_USA)&oldid=149183.
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Miller, Jacob J. (1959). Pike County Old Order Amish settlement (Bowling Green, Missouri, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 16 April 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Pike_County_Old_Order_Amish_settlement_(Bowling_Green,_Missouri,_USA)&oldid=149183.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 180. All rights reserved.
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