February 13, 2010
Today the Family Tree was updated and now contains 11,656 names. A few corrections were made and quite a few new Joseph and Marie Neuhauser Schrag descendants added.
Two more articles are now available: one is the story of Amos and Bertha Birkey Hieser of Fisher, Illinois, and the other tells about the ancestry and ministry [...]
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February 13, 2010
by Ruth Hieser Oyer
Condensed and adapted by Donna Birkey from an unpublished
manuscript archived at East Bend Mennonite Church, Fisher, IL.
Originally published in the Spring 2008 issue (Vol. XXXV, No. 1)
Illinois Mennonite Heritage Quarterly (http://www.imhgs.org)
(Used with permission of original publisher)
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After a four-year courtship, Amos Hieser and Bertha Birkey (shown at left years later [...]
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