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An1a Ittcnnonltc 'Pcnnsyl\'an1a ittcnnonltc Volume 26, Number 1 January 2003 ) .' Contributors to This Issue Noah L. Hershey, son of Noah Hershey and Marie Denlinger, was born on July 8, 1920, on a farm in West Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Following graduation from high school in 1938, he attended the Short Term Winter Bible School in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1940 and 1941. On November 27, 1941, with Bishop Abram Martin officiating, he married Alta Mary Leaman; this union was blessed with two sons and six daughters. In 1946 he was ordained as a min­ ister for the Parkesburg Mennonite Church and in 1973 as a bishop for the Millwood District of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference, where he served until his retirement in 1991. From 1981 to 1991 he served as Moderator of Lancaster Mennonite Conference. He served on the board of the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society from 1977 to 1991, including 11 years as chair of that board from 1980 to 1991. In 1989 he edited a genealogy entitled The Descendants of John Eby Hershel) and Anna Mellinger Hershey. He may be reached at 8875 North Moscow Road, Parkesburg, PA 19365- 1822. Denise Witwer Lahr, like Peter Eby, was raised in Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She received the B.A. (1972) in General Arts and Sciences from Penn State, University Park, and an M.A. (1982) from the University of California at Berkeley, where she also served as a lecturer in microbiology. Currently, she does substitute teaching in the Middletown Area School District. Her recent interest in family history was prompted by the discovery of an incomplete genealogical outline of the Lahr family and letters from Germany found among the possessions of Lester Lahr, her late father-in-law. She may be reached at 709 Cricket Glen Road, Hummelstown, PA, 17036, and [email protected]. David J. Rempel Smucker, editor of Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage since 1987, was born in Bluffton, Ohio. He attended Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio, and Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (1971). Graduate studies included an M.A. (1973) from Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartford, Connecticut, and a Ph.D. (1981) from Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, in the field of church history. Employed by the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society since 1981, he has done historical and genealogical research and writing, planned tours, lectures and conferences, lectured to church and secular groups, taught a course for congregational historians, and serves as chair of the Mennonite Sources and Documents executive committee. He has written articles in Mennonite periodicals on the topics of family history and hymnology. He did historical and genealogical research in Switzerland, Germany, and France in 1985 and 1986 on a leave of absence. His address is 916 Walnut Street, Akron, PA 17501. Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage {ISSN 0148-4036) is the quarterly six weeks in advance. magazine of the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 2215 Millstream Direct editorial mail to 2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster, PA 17602. Road, Lancaster, PA 17602. It focuses on the historical background, The editor will be pleased to consider unsolicited manuscripts and religious thought and expression, culture, and genealogy of the photographs sent for publication but accepts no responsibility for Mennonite-related groups originating in Pennsylvania. It publishes manuscripts not accompanied by return postage. Phone (717) 393-9745. material in the context of the broader mission of the Lancaster Copyright 2003 by the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 2215 Mennonite Historical Society: To educate and inspire Mennonite families Millstream Road, Lancaster, PA 17602. and congregations and the broader community through the promotion Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage is printed by Stauffer Printing, Inc., of the history, beliefs, and lifestyle of the Mennonite expression of the Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The body text is 10-point Palatine>- Type and Anabaptist tradition. Articles appearing in this magazine are annotated graphic elements are electronically assembled on a Macintosh G3 and indexed in Historical Abstracts, America: History and Life and computer using; QuarkXPress 4.11, Adobe PhotoShop 6, and Adobe Genealogical Periodical Annual Index. Periodicals postage paid at Lancaster. Illustrator 9. Halftones are scanned on an Agfa Duoscan T2000 XL flatbed Single copies, $9.50 each ppd., $6.00 at Society. Regular, annual scanner. Lasers are proofed from a Hewlett-Packard 8000N (600 dpi) laser membership $25.00. Five-year cumulative indexes of authors-subjects printer, final film is plotted on a Linotronic 330 irnagesetter at a resolution and titles, every name, and errata-addenda: 1978-1982 at $14.95 ppd., of 2540 and 150 line screen. The text paper is 60-lb. Springhill ivory. The 1983-1987 at $18.95 ppd., 1988-1992 at $18.95 ppd., and 1993-1997 at cover paper is 65-lb. Springhill ivory smooth. Issues are printed on a $14.95 ppd. Address changes should be forwarded to Lancaster at least Heidelberg 2-color press and stitched on a Harris pocket saddle binder. STAFF 1Jennsyl"an1a tltennoni-tre Editor David J. Rempel Smucker Editorial Assistant Lola M. Lehman C1'it~gc Proofreader John B. Shenk Circulation Volume 26, Number 1 January 2003 Dorothy D. Siegrist Editorial Council IN THIS ISSUE (2001 - 2003) Eugene K. Engle The Millwood Community and its Mennonite Congregation 2 by Noah L. Hershey Lorraine Roth Stephen Scott The Life and Legacy of Peter Eby of Warwick Township 9 (2002- 2004) by Denise Witwer Lahr Leonard Gross Image Icons of Pennsylvania Mennonite and Amish History 18 David Haury compiled and edited by David f. Rempel Smucker Steven D. Reschly Queries 30 (2003 - 2005) Tips 31 JohnA. Lapp Neil Ann Stuckey Levine Book Reviews 32 Darvin L. Martin The Amish in the American Imagination, by David Weaver-Zercher by John W. Friesen The Robe of God: Reconciliation, the Believers Church Essential, by Myron S. Augsburger by Brinton L. Rutherford THE COVER The interior (ca. 1900) of the Keystone Roller Mill in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, shows bags of "Purina Poultry Feeds" which were possibly produced and/ or sold there. Left to right: Milton R. Slaymaker, Christian Elias Brackbill (1871-1952), two unidentified men, and (probably) Ellis B. Brackbill (small son of C.E. Brackbill). Brackbill operated the mill for about 30 years (ca. 1900- 1934 or 1935). (The editor thanks Christian E. Brackbill of Smoketown, Pennsylvania, for identification concerning the photograph.) The first article describes cultural and religious aspects of the Millwood area in Salisbury Township. Illustration Credits: cover, p. 3, Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Lancaster, Pa.; pp. 4, 5, 6, author; pp. 10, 13, 14, 15, Joseph W. Lahr; p. 11 left, Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pa.; pp. 11 right, 12, Lancaster County Archives, Lancaster, Pa.; pp. 19-22, Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania, Harleysville, Pa.; pp. 23, 24, 29 top, Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society; p. 25, Franklin D. Heatwole, Janesville, Wisconsin; p. 26, Juniata Mennonite Historical Society, Richfield, Pa.; p. 27, S. Duane Kauffman, Perkasie, Pa.; p. 28, Levi Miller, Scottdale, Pa.; p. 29 bottom, Mennonite Heritage Center, Chambersburg, Pa. An account of this community and the more recent history of the congregation highlights a rural setting in eastern Lancaster County. The Millwood Community and its Mennonite Congregation by Noah L. Hershey Location and Early Settlers Mennonite Church. The meetinghouse at Old Road (east The beautiful rural community, known as Millwood, of White Horse) was built in 1841. The former church was is located in southcentral Salisbury Township, Lancaster rebuilt and enlarged in 1877.5 County, in southeastern Pennsylvania. The township embraces the Pequea Valley at its eastern or upper end. United Brethren Church The Welsh Mountain range forms its eastern boundary. The United Brethren held meetings in the Millwood The Mine hills and Gap hills lie to the south; these two schoolhouse from 1877 to 1879.6 In the fall of the follow­ ranges meet on the east, enclosing the valley on three ing year, they elected a Board of Trustees consisting of sides. seven members: Z.C. Mower, A. Benedic, John Berkheiser, The early settlers of Salisbury Township were Scots­ David Doutrich, Daniel Warfel, William Hamilton, and Irish Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Quakers. For a Jeremiah Futer. Under their superintendence, a church period of about a century, "Old Sadsbury" was the only was built and dedicated in 1879. The Limeville United house of worship within four miles of Gap, where Friends Brethren Church became the spiritual parent of the (Quakers) had three and sometimes four ministers at the present United Methodist Church. same time; Presbyterians frequently attended and listened attentively to the sermons.I Two Grist Mills on the Pequea Creek Among the early settlers in Salisbury Township were Early settlers in Salisbury Township valued their such surnames as Baldwin, Brinton, Byers, Clemson, Galt, mills. Grist mills were used to grind or roll various grains, Hoar, Robinson, and Worst-predominantly Scots-Irish primarily wheat and corn. Some mills were used to saw and English. lumber, press cider, grind and press flaxseed, hull clover seed, and to grind bones for fertilizer? Amish and Mennonites Two of these mills stood along the Pequea Creek with­ Throughout much of the 1700s Salisbury Township in a two-mile radius of the Millwood Mennonite meeting­ had few Amish. The tax list of 1770 contains the names of house and its adjacent Millwood Mennonite Cemetery. three persons who were probably Amish-John Plank, The Millwood area constituted something of an economic Jacob Kurtz, Abraham Kurtz.2By the 1870s the Amish had and social community. Just to the north of the homestead a large number of adherents in this township. After a of John Stoltzfus (1805-1887), the Pequea Creek flows east schism in the church in 1877, the progressive group, later to west. Very slightly upstream, John Neuhauser (1810- known as Amish Mennonites, erected a neat and com­ 1878) built a dam and a water-powered mill of three modious meetinghouse.
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