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 | | Because Yoder was living in Nebraska at the time, the group was nicknamed the "Nebraska Amish," a name still used to designate this most conservative of all Old Order Amish groups. |
 | | From her files she retrieved a hand-drawn map of the former Amish landowners, a number of them on land within the square mile that she and her husband owned and farmed. |
 | | He wrote about their sod house, prairie fires, drought, grasshoppers, unselfish sharing with strangers--even a last sack of flour, leaving home, riding the train to Mifflin County to marry and raise his family, and a later visit with former neighbors in Gosper County. |
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