Hello from Geauga County Amish Country
Saturday, Nov. 3 was a beautiful afternoon with the sun shining.
Saturday, Nov. 3 was a beautiful afternoon with the sun shining. With all the rain we’ve had, the leaves are falling fast. They are past their peak of color.
Going to surprise daughter Betty in Mio, Mich., for her birthday on Oct. 30 were Dan and Sylvia, Joe Saloma, Richard Sue, Ray Judy and daughter Maria, Mary Jane and I. We arrived at 1:30 p.m. We had pizza, cake and ice cream for dinner plus snacks. Grandsons Norman Rays and Nathans and granddaughter Lorena and Loren joined us also. We left for home the next afternoon, stopping at Cabela’s for several hours. We arrived home at 9:30 p.m. It was a short, but sweet, trip.
Niece Ellen Hershberger had her surgery to remove a part of one lung. She spent a week in the hospital. We hope she will have a full recovery.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the Noah Hershberger family in the passing of Noah. He died the morning of Nov. 2. He was 77. They have no children. His funeral was on Nov. 5.
I stayed with my sister Edna and Bill Byler for the night on Nov. 3 and then planned to go to the viewing the following afternoon. My sisters Clara and Eli Kauffman and Sylvia and Albert Miller plus a few more from Michigan came for the funeral of Noah Hershberger.
On Oct. 29, sister Edna Byler and I spent the day with sister Fannie, along with our niece Mary and Joe P. Miller from Cashton, Wis. Joes had come for the wedding of Susann Schmucker and Mahlon Byler, which was Oct. 25.
Granddaughter Cindy, daughter of Dan and Sylvia, had surgery on her foot on Nov. 2. She may not put any weight on it for two weeks. She is almost 18 years old.
From Out of the Past
Welshfield, Geauga County, Ohio: Nov. 6, 1899
The weather has been unfavorable of late for husking corn and digging potatoes, though the latter were mostly all harvested before the rains and yielded much better than was expected.
N.C. Slabach sold nearly 1,000 bushels. Corn did not do as well as last year. Wheat in the ground looks promising.
Eli P. Miller and wife of near Charm visited with friends here a few weeks, but returned home on Saturday.
Sam C.M. Miller has hired John Beller to drive his team on the grading of the Cleveland and Chagrin Falls Electric Railway extension from Newbury to Middlefield.
Among those that bought land in this county lately are: Andrew Coblentz of Middlefield, Noah C. Slabach of Troy and Reuben and Jacob Byler of Lawrence County, Pa.
Thought for the Day
Do what you can for whom you can, with what you have and where you are.
You all have a good week.
