Everything about The Nebraska Amish totally explained
The
Nebraska Amish are perhaps the most conservative group of
Old Order Amish, descendants of the
Anabaptists and
Mennonites.
The present
Nebraska Amish districts are found in
Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, with small extensions into
Centre and
Union counties. The Amish came into this region of
Pennsylvania as early as 1791. Around 1880, Bishop Yost H. Yoder led nine families from
Juniata County, Pennsylvania, to
Gosper County in south-central
Nebraska, founding an
Old Order settlement that would last until 1904, three years after Bishop Yoder's death. Yoder went back to the
Kishacoquillas Valley in Pennsylvania in 1881 to assist a conservative Amish group. Yoder was living in Nebraska, and the group was nicknamed the
Nebraska Amish by others.
Like other
Old Order Amish, the
Nebraska Amish don't use motorized equipment or indoor plumbing, and wear very conservative clothing. Differences include the fact that the men don't wear suspenders and the women don't wear
bonnets (wearing black kerchiefs and flat
straw hats instead). Other differences include the fact that they don't place screens on their doors or windows, men only wear white shirts, curtains are not used in homes, buggy tops must be white, men's hair must be shoulder length, no lawnmowers are allowed and houses must not have projecting roofs.
A group called the
Zook faction broke away from the Yoders in 1933, and constitute a separate "district", holding their own worship services and having their own bishops. Though differences exist, they're unnoticeable to outsiders. As of 2000, the Nebraska Amish had eleven districts and 775 members, mostly in northeastern Mifflin County.
Since the late 1970s they've split several times. Groups include the Rufus Zook group, the Chris Yoder group, and others. Reasons for splits are difficult to obtain.
Because Nebraska Amish have a small number of youth, they allow dating over the line. So young people of different Nebraska Amish groups can date each other, however when they want to marry they've to decide which of the groups that'll join. Nebraska Amish practice
bundling.
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