>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:14:01 -0400 >To: HOSTETLER-admin@rootsweb.com >From: "Grace A. Gleason" <ggleason@widomaker.com> >Subject: Hostetler/Stutzman Bible > >Hi, > >Found this post on Rootsweb's "Somebody's Links" this week, contacted >Eileen, and got permission to pass it on. I have sent it to the Stutzman >List as well. Thanks to Eileen for permission to reprint this here! Hope >someone can claim it. > >grace > > > >Very old German script bible with handwritten date of 1842. It is in poor >condition with many front pages missing and appears to be New Testament >only. On back pages are listed: Lucinda, Lydia, Samuel, Abraham, >Francis(?), and Emanuel (all Hostetler) and Elizabeth Stutzman. This bible >was found in the attic of a farm home near Wellington, Sumner Co, Kansas >many years ago [it was found about 1943]. Will be happy to send it to >anyone who can prove descent. > >Contact Eileen: nanapaco@swbell.net