The Thomas R. Brendle Collection of Pennsylvania German Folklore, Volume IThomas Brendle was born in 1889 in Schaefferstown, Pa., and died in 1966 in Allentown, Pa., and grew up when the Pennsylvania German dialect had not yet been replaced by English. He was concerned that the folklore of his people would be lost forever if he did not record it. So this volume contains 1,804 numbered items of the traditions, proverbs, expressions, etc., that he heard or learned from the Pennsylvania Germans. This is an ample source for the

and other persons named in the will

He became a teacher and then a Brethren minister and served for over 58 years

Dyck was born in 1881 in Russia and left in 1907 for Kansas

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Swartzentruber

A super collection of 78 short articles on subjects ranging from axes to blacksmithing to summerhouses and warming pans

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The most frequent surnames include Allgayer

Subtitled: "Essays on the Persecution

Samuel Nutt

and her two children settled at Schoharie

Frequent surnames: Ebersole