Another tragic crash, this time out of Illinois. A 29-year-old Amish schoolteacher was killed Tuesday morning in a buggy crash in Wayne County, Illinois. Two of her students were riding with her. They were flown to a hospital with serious injuries. The crash was reported at around 7:09 a.m. on County Highway 16, west of the village of Johnsonville, according to WFIW radio in Fairfield….
State Police have identified the two children killed in last Friday’s buggy crash in Oswego County, New York. It turns out that they are brother and sister. Anna J. Hershberger, 13, and Moses J. Hershberger, 7, were pronounced dead at the scene. There is a bit of good news in the new reports: a 9-year-old girl who was critically injured is now listed in stable…
Pennsylvania State Police are searching for a man they say stole more than $82,000 worth of power tools from construction sites across Lancaster County — and many of the victims were Amish. Here’s more from CBS21: LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Police are looking for a man who reportedly stole over $80K in tools from various construction sites between February and July in Lancaster County….
Illinois is home to America’s tenth-largest Amish population. Over 9,000 Amish live in around 20 settlements across the state, though more than six in ten of them live in just one community. These ten communities are the largest in Illinois, based on the most current Amish population estimates. Population numbers via Young Center for Anabaptist & Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College (source link at bottom)….
This week’s Amish home is located in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. It’s our second look at a home in this area this year, after this eight-bedroom, one-bathroom home back in February. This one is a bit smaller, but not by much. It has six bedrooms and (once again) just one bathroom. It’s a good size and has what the listing calls “oversized” rooms. It’s 3,150 square feet on a…
More awful news out of New York. Another buggy crash in the state claimed two more lives today – this time two young children, ages 7 and 13. A van struck two buggies this morning (Friday September 25) in Richland in Oswego County, New York. The state has been seeing a lot of this lately. Just twelve days ago, a grandmother and her grandson lost…
The Grant County, Wisconsin Sheriff’s Office is asking the public to watch out for a runaway Amish horse. The horse got loose with its harness still on, and may be stuck somewhere on private property. From WFRV: According to a social media post, a brown Amish horse with its harness on got loose on Wednesday, September 23, and is currently missing. The Sheriff’s Office alert…
“Far Side Banks of Jordan” is a gospel song many may know from funeral or memorial services. Mike and Marty have now released their own version of it. And I can say this is one of my new favorites by the brother and sister duo. Why is that? Well, the singing on this one is amazing. It’s always good from these two, but I really…
New details have been released on a deadly September 13 buggy crash in St. Lawrence County, New York. The two people killed when a pickup truck struck the buggy outside Canton, New York were a young boy visiting from Michigan and his grandmother. The crash had many victims, and I wondered at the time if there weren’t a good number of children inside, given the…
Jim Halverson is back with another set of photos taking you inside a fun Amish event. These are from the recent Rentown Old Fashion Days in northern Indiana. The event brings together Amish families and others for a day of antique machinery demonstrations, food, vendors, and other old-fashioned activities. Rentown is a small Amish area between Nappanee and Bremen. The name is probably best known…