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Smid Family Papers 1786-1911

  • US MCUSAA HM1/086
  • Collection
  • 1786-2006

The bulk of the materials in this collection consist of sermons, poems, songs, and catechisms, a church register, and other religious writings documenting Mennonite church and community life in Balk, Friesland (The Netherlands) during the first part of nineteenth century, 1786-1850. The papers also include sermons, poems, correspondence, and other miscellaneous records pertaining to Balk Mennonite life in New Paris, Indiana.

Most materials are in Dutch. Available English translations are noted in the detailed collection description.

The collection is organized into series, most of which are groups of documents associated with the Smid Family siblings and the wife of R. J. Smid. Series include:

(1) Background Articles and Information on Balk Mennonites, 1948-2006

(2) Early Materials, 1786, undated

(3) Obe Johannes Smid, 1815-1849

(4) Akke Johannes Smid, 1820-1828

(5) Jacobjen Johannes Smid, 1822-1836

(6) Ruurd Johannes Smid (R. J. Smith), 1822-1893

(7) Grietje Jacobs Symensma (Margaret J. Smid), 1845-1895

Smid Family

Eunice Deter Family Papers and Longanecker Family Collection

  • US MCUSAA HM1/913
  • Collection
  • 1809-1976

Miscellaneous materials collected by genealogist Eunice Deter to document the history of the Deter and Longanecker families.  Materials include photographs, correspondence, maps, financial and land records, wills and obituaries, biographies, diaries, and genealogy notes.  Other materials include various editions of the Longanecker family history written by Deter.

Deter, Eunice, 1890-1982

Anna V. Lehman Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.189
  • Collection
  • 1864-1949

Johann Lehmann diaries 1864-1879. Anna Lehman diaries 1945-1949. Anna Lehman correspondence, a few financial papers, "Familien-Chronik" (probably removed from a Bible)

Lehman, Anna V., 1874-1968

Clara Eby Steiner Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/201
  • Collection
  • 1873-1929

This collection is divided into 4 series:

1) General Correspondence

2) Family Correspondence

3) Correspondence to M. S. Steiner

4) Diaries and Miscellaneous

Steiner, Clara Eby, 1873-1929

Emma Smith Schertz Family Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/932
  • Collection
  • 1878-1947

These papers consist primarily of photographs, diaries, and miscellaneous personal papers of Emma Smith Schertz.  Land records from her husband's family document the donation of property from the Schertz family to the Mennonite Board of Missions and the Roanoke Mennonite Church in Roanoke, Illinois.  The photographs depict Emma and Ben Schertz, Ruth Schertz, C.F. and Gertrude Derstine, and other members of the Schertz family.

Schertz, Emma Smith, 1883-1961

Florence Nafziger Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/175
  • Collection
  • 1881-1999

These personal papers include autobiographical writing, photographs, slides, and ephemera pertaining to Nafziger's work as a Mennonite medical missionary in India.  They also contain some Nafziger family records, specifically a farm journal created by Christian Nafziger II.

Nafziger, Florence, 1918-

Ella Shoup Bauman Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/657
  • Collection
  • 1883-1960

This small set of personal papers includes a diary documenting Bauman's service at the Youngstown Mission in Ohio from 1912 to 1913.  Also included among the papers are manuscripts of her essays and devotional writings, miscellaneous correspondence and family papers.

Fannie B. Shantz Smucker Papers 1910-1989

  • US MCUSAA HM1/691
  • Collection
  • 1885-1989

Papers of a Goshen Academy alumna (1922), long-time member of the Prairie Street Mennonite Church (Elkhart, Ind.), and missionary to Dhamtari, India later in life.  Contains a remarkable run of diaries, nearly unbroken, from 1910 to 1989, in which Smucker provides brief descriptions of her daily activities.  Also includes scrapbooks, postcard albums, her father's autograph book, and miscellaneous materials.

Smucker, Fannie B. Schantz, 1894-1993

William C. Voth and Matilda Kliewer Voth Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.179
  • Collection
  • 1890-1986

This collection contains extensive correspondence between Voths and their relatives, Foreign Mission Board members, and fellow missionaries during the time period from 1910 to 1970s. Additional materials such as diaries and clippings give a good overview of mission work in China during the height of General Conference Mennonite Mission involvement in that country, 1910s to 1950. Additional correspondence and printed items touch on the search for mission fields in South America, Japan, and Taiwan, and some involvement with American Indian work among the Hopis.

Voth, William C., 1888-1962

Amanda Eby Leaman Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/610
  • Collection
  • 1894-1937

Personal papers, mostly diaries, of a domestic mission worker of the (old) Mennonite Church.  Leaman, sister of Clara Eby Steiner, served the Mennonite Home Mission (Chicago, Ill.) with her husband, Amos Hershey Leaman, for twenty years.  The diaries are a rich source of information about Leaman's mission service, spiritual life, and personal experiences.  Among other topics, she describes her work as a teacher and mission worker, experiences with Chicago's immigrant community and new converts to Christianity, her engagement and marriage, various illnesses and deaths in the family, Women's Missionary Society and Sewing Circle Meetings, and disagreement among mission staff over a church organ. Her diaries cover the years 1894-1902, 1904-1926, and 1931-1937.

Other materials in her papers include a book of clippings, poetry and prose collected by the Leamans, drawings of Amanda and Amos Leaman, and miscellaneous correspondence and ephemera found in her diaries and other journals.

Leaman, Amanda Eby, 1876-1938

Ida Beidler Diary

  • US MCUSAA HM1/550SC
  • Collection
  • 1898

The collection consists of a copy of a diary kept by Ida Beidler from January 1, 1898 until December 29, 1898. The entries chronicle daily weather and domestic activities on a farm.

Beidler, Ida

Emma Ruth Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.236
  • Collection
  • 1900-1960

Box 1: correspondence, diaries, teaching certificates, clippings, notes

Box 2: correspondence, photos, school materials, slides, diaries, creative writing materials

Box 3: photos, clippings, family history info, video copy of movies in box 4

Box 4: 8mm home movies

Box 5: framed photo of Jakob Haury (1839-1929) family

"Box" 6 (map folder): diplomas, certificates

box 7: photos removed from photo processing area 8 Sept 2011

Ruth, Emma, 1891-1965

Selma Ellenberger Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.384
  • Collection
  • 1900-1964

Box 1-2: correspondence, diaries

box 3: correspondence, books

box 4: funeral guest book, Adolf Ellenberger writings, music books (one handwritten), books (don't know the identity of this Adolf Ellenberger; maybe her father?)

Ellenberger, Selma Emilie, 1885-1964

Martha Ewy Berger Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.461
  • Collection
  • 1901-1990

box 1: Bethel diploma 1949, travel diaries 1977-1988, miscellaneous notebooks, photos, correspondence Amalia Ewy to Emma Ewy 1925-1935, clippings, yearbooks from various schools (where she taught?) 1940s-60s, photos, print ephemera-1960s-travel, notebook, slides
box 2: photos, diaries, college transcripts, teaching certificate, family history material, books
box 3-4: correspondence 1950-1981, photos, print ephemera, books, travel diaries, correspondence 1950s-1960s, family history material, passports, photos, Arlington church construction, school papers, legal and financial papers back to 1901
Box 5: scrapbook-travel-1950s

Berger, Martha Ewy, 1906-2003

Dora Shantz Gehman Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/883
  • Collection
  • 1901-1993

Papers of a female missionary worker (nurse) in India (1931-1939).  Includes diaries, extensive correspondence with family and friends in the United States, and with Indian friends and colleagues she met in the course of her mission work.  Also includes elementary school, Sunday school, and college notes, diplomas, a scrapbook made by Prairie Street Mennonite Church for her time in India, Christmas letters from missionaries and missionary families, and miscellaneous annotated publications and clippings.

Gehman, Dora Shantz, 1897-1993

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