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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Thjanks again Susan, Iooked up "Old German Baptist Brethren" on Wikipedia.  
It says they are part of the Anabaptist movement, as are Amish and 
Mennonites, I searched within the article for "Lediite" but it was not in the 
article.  

It's funny that the Amish community you mentioned was near Harrisonburg.  
That is exactly the one I was talking about from so many years ago.  I was 
seeing a girl at James Madison at the time.

Try to stay warm up there in Snowy Maine.  I haven't even put on a shirt 
today.  It was cool before daylight this am, but it's somewhere between 75 & 
80 degrees here now.............................................

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--- On Wed, 12/3/08, sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net> wrote:

> From: sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] It's almost over
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 4:08 PM
> bob ford wrote:
> > Thank's Susan; The religion in which you were
> raised is not one of the Amish religions ?  I remember you
> telling about it once; maybe I misunderstood.
> >   
> I grew up in an Old Order German Baptist Brethren, Lediite
> community, 
> where I was a foster child from the age of 4, until I was
> on my own.
> 
> I then married an Amishman; that marriage lasted 21 years.
> 
> Now I'm not any of 'em, :-)  but  I have no
> regrets, much 'gained' 
> family to whom I'm still close in both groups, and much
> contact still 
> with them.
> >   There are no Amish, to speak of, here, of which I am
> aware.  In other places, mainly VA, I saw Amish communities.
>  The one in VA that I remember , they were considered very
> affluent, though they kept to the old ways, no cars --
> buggys instead; 
> There is a big German Baptist group near Dayton, just south
> of 
> Harrisonburg, still driving buggies.  The only Amish I know
> of there 
> have gone there recently (last 10 years or so) and are down
> just 
> southwest of Roanoke.  There are many conservative groups
> of Mennonite, 
> German Baptist, and 'new' or Beachy, usually
> car-driving groups.
> > but their buggies cost more than a luxury vehicle.  I
> have no idea if this is common, or specific to that one
> group.  
> >   
> Largely due to the very high cost of
> handwork......automation and 
> buggymaking don't quite go hand in hand, at least not
> the way they do 
> it.  My father-in-law was a wheelwright, making wheels and
> the metal 
> tires for them, and fitting to wagons/buggies/whatever. 
> Now his 
> grandson has taken over that business since Dawdy died in
> 1984.
> > I have never actually met an Amish person, other than
> to say hello in  a store, that I can remember.  Thanks for
> the information
> >   
> Well, come for a visit and I'll take ya to meet one;
> they don't make 
> such good display items, tho :-)
> 
> SJ
> 
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