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3 hand written music books (numerical notation). One hand written recipe book.

The papers include significant amounts of correspondence and family photos, school materials, and–more unusual–several folders of recipes. A wide variety of other documents is included. Many of the materials relate to extended family members—parents, grandparents, siblings, children, grandchildren—which accounts for the wide date range of 1874-1968. A note of clarification: some of the “David Thiesen” items come from a David Thiesen (1868-1929) who was an uncle of David H. Thiesen. The older David Thiesen never married.

This small collection was created by Peter Yoder, the grandfather or Walter E. Yoder,  THe account book provides a record of the settling of family estates, sales of goods, loans, and monetary transactions performed on behalf of others.  The remedy book contains instructions for treating various human and animal maladies as well as recipes for tanning leather, making cement, etc.