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This set of collected family documents contains correspondence, financial records, broadsides, property records, tax receipts, sermons, and assorted ephemera pertaining to the Nold and Yoder families of Columbia, Ohio, later of Columbiana and Leetonia, Ohio.  Materials document the following individuals, all of whom held ministerial positions in area Mennonite congregations:

Bishop Jacob Nold (1765-1834)

Deacon Jacob Nold (1798-1864)

Deacon John Ziegler Nold (1823-1913)

Deacon John L. Yoder, son-in-law of John Ziegler Nold (1855 - 1940)

Bishop Paul L. Yoder (1897-1990)

The bulk of the correspondence comprises incoming correspondence to Jacob Nold (1898-1964) and Paul L. Yoder.

Of particular significance in this collection is the copy of a petition drafted by J. M. Brenneman to be sent to President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that pleads for Mennonite exemption from military service in the American Civil War.

The collection consists of early Mennonite documents collected by Mrs. Lester Snyder and their English translations. The documents include various baptismal certificates and letters from Langnau, Switzerland and Stark County, Ohio. Among the names listed in these documents are Christina Schwartz, Christian Schwartz, Ulrich Schwarz, Heinrich Sommer, Anna Barbara Wyss, Menonit Egli, Anna Haghegger, and Johannes Wyss.

A small set of personal and pastoral papers created by a pastor and bishop associated with the Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Smithville, Ohio), an (old) Mennonite congregation in Wayne County, Ohio. Materials include information on the Young People's Conference, a record book of the Ohio Mennonite Relief Commission, materials pertaining to Orrville Mennonite Church (Orrville, Ohio) and Walnut Creek Mennonite Church (Holmes County, Ohio), correspondence with Bishop O. N. (Otis Nathan) Johns, and miscellaneous materials.

A small set of property records and church- and mission-related documents and correspondence created and collected by a pastor and  bishop of Crown Hill Mennonite Church (Rittman, Ohio) who donated land for the Rittman Home for the Aged.  Includes a letter to Christian Steiner dated 1829, as well as correxpondence from Menno Steiner (1905-1911).  Also includes marriage licenses, Crown Hill Mennonite Church reports, and membership letters.

A small set of personal papers belonging to a prominent 19th century Ohio Mennonite bishop and author.  Papers consist primarily of correspondence, but also include a small amount of sermon records and notes, and account book, and other miscellaneous materials.

A small set of personal papers found in an old Mennonite home near Kolb Mennonite Church (Holmes County, Ohio) in 1940.  Materials include early congregational records (1838-1855),scattered correspondence, A Fraktur and a Fraktur fragment, genealogical records, and miscellaneous materials.

Photographs and postcards of members of the Yoder family, the Shank family, Hubbard, Ore., Nampa, Id, and Wooster, Ohio.  Most notable are the photographs and postcards of Charles and Crissie Yoder Shank, who served as Mennonite missionaries to India.  Also includes photogras of Anna V. Yoder and Vesta Yoder Miller, among others.

The collection consists of the photocopy of the original letter written by Joel Detweiler of Champaign County, Ohio to Joel Kauffman of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania dated January 14, 1850, as well as a typed transcription. The letter includes local news and personal updates.

The collection consists of some correspondence, a notebook of copied poems, a scrapbook of collected poems, and miscellaneous writing.

These papers consist of one letter from Peter Nissley to Jacob Schneider (in German, with English translation) describing the health of his neighbors and arranging a meeeting among Jacob Schneider, Amos Herr, and himself, and twelve letters in English from John M. Brenneman to Peter Nissley discussing the welfare of the church.

This account book documents debts to and work performed by Andrew Stemen, a Mennonite farmer and cobbler in Ohio.  It also includes congregational accounts for building maintenance and the purchase of wine, Bibles, tubs, and other church supplies.

This set of records consists primarily of mid and late 20th century bulletins and newsletters documenting congregational life and worship.  Also included are two very early Sunday school record books (1859) a Bible conference program (1905), a centennial program (1962), a congregational history entitled "A Century and a Half with the Mennonites at Walnut Creek," and annual reports from 1984 to 1990 (1989 missing).

Nineteen letters to Christian and Fannie Martin Lehman of Mahoning County, Ohio from various friends and family in Ohio, Indiana.  One letter is in German; the others are in English.  Correspondents discuss the weather, their health, and their activities.

This small set of personal papers belonging to a son of John M. Brenneman, a prominent 19th century Ohio Mennonite bishop, consist primarily of incoming correspondence to Moses Brenneman from 1865 to 1870.  The papers also include miscellaneous materials, including poems by Daniel Brenneman and land records,

Congregational records of an (old) Mennonite Church / Mennonite Church USA congregation in the Ohio Mennonite Conference.  Records include late 19th and early 20th century financial records and Sunday school records, early to mid-twentieth century Young People's Bible Meeting and Women's Aid Society records, church bulletins, (1950-2005), congregational reports, and other miscellaneous records.