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C,tB,S?eJ? do'*^ z to FF' EH o< z.E No. 1 marks rhere the flrst Yoders to rr"fi""-settiea between lobach and.Manai"*v-i"-serks county east-of Readlng-ln 6ilv'riiit"r,ip: Th-v:were Reforrned and tutheren. No"2 ln upper Bucke Ccunty narks the erea wheie tiri second SrolP selt-l:d: ili; ;;in-utttoro roinehtp'-Sone of these loi" ""o""cd over ln Iower Mllford Tswn- ;;i; ili;-iirrren countY' rhls grouP was Mennonlte. No 3 ln upper Berke County nan'ks the """"-"-"tiied^ ty the flrst Arnleh-llennoi-ril iod"i". ine lorisn seceded frorn the ffi;;";i;;;-iu"itte regl rn swltzerland' Thls area ls 1n Upper Bern Townsnr'p' il"irtil"t.oi natuGs at the foot of the Blue Mount"tt"' ---ooooooo--- READER EXCHANGE Th16 NEWSLETTER w111 PubIlBh Yoder-related rnceetrrL Inqulries o" """rtartge fron readers'- Please irri{-io irrrrtv words or less-and lnclude a cotrplete nalllng a'ldre66 for reaPonce -g--aE-=E=-ge--E====-gE=== Ylho wae Sareh Yoder, born 8-APr- 1811 ln PA' U. Toblas Flke 12-lug iaiz at st. utchael's srangellcar irrirr. cttrr"ch ln l{a1me Co' 0H' d' S'-iept 1854-A1len Co, IN? Respend tc tirle t{fWslfffnR address and narked -lnqulrles'. aaff af aElE'Gtt3:E-;et!!tt=E HANTEDT Infornatlon on locatlon "i tft" Yoder regeerc'h flles of Cnarteg T. Yoder' of Washlngton, DC, (clrca 1890) and Llrnn^Yoder of'Falrnont WV (clrca 1930!s)' ReGPond tor 20) Lakeehlre Road gatile Creek UI 49015 + I d I Sz v o o O YODER REIATID BOOKS IN PROCRESS You will note elsewhere ln this issue the reference to the book U"i"* PrePared bY the Reuben Yoder F;;'{iu';i-lrortnein rndiana' This aesceiraant's directory Lncludes an anceatral sketch of Yoder6 througn ih" two Chrlstlan Yoders of Someriet CountY, PA, both Anish bishops u""t to tir6 orlgtnal imnlgrant of l?42. Another book, the most conPlete ""rpJi"ifon to date of early Anigh i;e;;;-i; Amerlca has been made in """""t yeara bY Hugh F' Gingerich, PhD, of Washingtonr DC' and-Racner w. XrelOer, MA, of Goshen, fN' The Yoder section wlll- be the largest i"-"-toOo-Page volune on baslc lnlsh geneal;gy, whlch 6eeks to 1;;;; Sver t23- imtsn €urnalie fanilles and thelr lnter-relatednese iion lmnlgretlon to an arbltrary cut-off dite of ebout 18J0' Il9* i" it" last etages of Preparatlon, the book ls scheduled to go 9n 6ele bY the end of 1983' Tltis o"tff"i of Anish Yoder fanllles, *itit a"t"", and. censua locatlons wherever Possible ' wlll be of Gpeclal lnterest to Yoders stemm- 1ng fron thls European--branch I'a wlll also the coPious Yoder notes tn the appendlx. Do vou know of any other Yoderstudlei now in Progress? we would be glad to hear about then.
YODER NEWSLETTER FURTHER ]NFORMATION ON ST. JODER We have made previous reference to the fact that the name YODER traces back to St. Theodore, the first bishop of Octodorus in the fllartigny- Valais district of southern Switzerland. Swiss scholars maintain that the name St. Theodulus of mediaeval- times, as well as tEE F;;n;h- Theodule, are but variants from the original Theodorus. Dr. Eugen Gruber of Switzerland stated that in earlier times the accent was on the third to last syllab1e and the interchange of 1 and r was frequently made. This change in accent is the only linguistic shift in the derivation of the name, according to Dr. John Howard Yoder, distinguished theologian of Elkhart, lndiana, and he explained step by step how the evolution from TLreodorus to Joder had become a matter of simple norrnan etfEiF-in pronunciation. It may be a surprise to those Yoders who thought their nane catne from a clan of yodelers in the AIps to discover that the fact is stranger that the fiction, but the Swiss le.ave no doubt as to the derivation of the name. In the archives at Sion in Switzerland can be found the doctoral dissertations of Dr. Gruber about the instituted grants made in the name of the saints in the-diocese of Sitten in the Middle Ages. In one section is a scholarly account of St. Theodore, who, he wrote, "stood at the head" of a line of bishops in the Wa11is country (Valais)" He probably meant in time but perhaps also in importance. St. Theodore carne into special prominence when he discovered the bodies of the martyrs of Theba and started the work of buildine a basil_ica in their honor. As tirne went on aid l-esends were handed down, especially by ,'one wandering monk", other St. Theodores crept into the folklore-saints belonging to 1at-er times--who also were supposed to have discovered the remains of the martyrs. fn the liturgical festivals they eventually had also taken on the person, and character of the first saint to the point that esteem for then did not need to be altered when the authentic St. Theodore was again discovered. With many footnotes Dr. Gruber went into references to St. Theodore found in various docurnants, especially records listing the donations to his altars, the churches and chapels built to his honor, and the brotherhoods established ln his rrdln@r By the thirteen-= th century there was nore reference to his own remains, and by the fifteenth century emphasis centered more on the veneration of the saint himself. Not only did the Theodore cult spread into neighboring dioceses, but the people of the Valais took it with them when they migrated to other va11eys. He was increasi-ngly honored in the French sectors, and chapels and churches began to appear all along the Upper Rhone. The inner Swiss took up the cult of St. Theodore for the most nart aftcr thp fi fteenth century. fn later issues we hope to tell more stories about St. Joder and to describe some St. Joder memorabilia. We wish here to mention only one item, one of several sent to us by Karl Joder of ludwigshafen, West Germany, after receivi,ng 2 conv of the YODER NEWSLETTER. '/u2Q1i c l_y1u r k a n t u.s t:u b e v o m t). J u r t i St. Theodul oder St. Joder Martin Joder of Konolfin_ gen, Switzerland sent information to Karl Joder about the commemorative sramp depicting_St. Joder. isgf was the 1500th anni_versary of St.. ,'oder,s appointment ai ?lsh9p and he participated in rne .utshops, Synod of Aqui_ leja in 181. Karl Generouslv sent us a stamp, issued by Liechenstein anO it was designed by Bruno Kaufman and Walter Wachter. A copy of the stamp appears aUove. .q. larger impression of St. Joder's statue is also shown. ---ooo 0ooo--_ === ===================== ========================== WHERE WE LIVE--A DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE The bdlow figures represent figures obtained from screening data banks, telephone listings, and others in automated acldress repositoriei across the country. This does not include the many within the ranks of our faml-fy of the ,'plain" religious branches who would not b6 numbered a.mong the above sources. The map is based on ..iust the known addressee totals onlv. AL- 28 111-1017 AK- 3 tA- 352 AZ- 81 KS- 1 9l AR- 20 KY- 51 cA-4O6 LA- 21 co-15'l I!iE- 9 CT- 21 Yaa- 123 '18 ])E- 50 r{A- FL-112 YrI- 171 GA- 42 M1{- 40 HI- 12 MS- 24 rD- 22 M(> 114 rL-21O r'ir- 12 NE- 50 SC- 18 NV- 9 Sf- 4 NH- 4 T}I- 81 NJ- 41 TX-178 NM- 20 Ur- 17 NY- 105 VT- 2 NC- 1BB VA-176 ND- 15 WA- 81 oH-1221 WV- 28 oK- a2 l{r- 55 oR- 178 WY- 5 PA-1]58 DJ- 1 1
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FURTHER INFORMATION ON HENRY YODER
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