Finally arrive in Pandora Ohio, and Bluffton, both amazing Swiss Communities that were settled in the early 1800's. For my children's and grandchildren's sake who may read this blog, a little genealogy is in order. Christian and Barbara Elizabeth Luginbuhl/Schumacher left a farm outside of Basel Switzerland in 1835 and came to Wayne County Ohio to visit relatives, then they moved to Putnam county, Ohio, in 1836, locating and building what is now known as this old Swiss Schumacher homestead. Christian and Elizabeth are my great great grandparents. My grandparents, were Daniel Diller and Helen Schumacher /Diller. My grandfather Dan was born to Adam Diller and Katherine/Schumacher my great grandparents, and it was my great great grandmother 'Katherine', who was born in this now very old historical Swiss house that her father Christian Schumacher and mother Elizabeth/Schumacher built in 1843. All of the Diller farms are just across the road. The Diller side of the family who formerly spelled their name as Thueller in Swiss immigrated from Bern Switzerland. Jean Schumacher, a cousin and lives in Pandora set us up with the Historical Society's curator for the tour of the old homestead: http://www.pandoraoh.com/webpage/swiss/homestead.html Since it was my grandparents homestead that the Swiss Historical Society chose to purchase and display, we were given a personal tour by the Society Curator. As it turns out he is one of my distant Swiss Mennonite cousin's and is wearing his little Swiss hat for the above pictures. These Diller and Schumacher relatives all still live on various farms in the Pandora area. They still retain their strong Mennonite beliefs. The Amish actually broke off from the Swiss Mennonites and their is still a strong Amish presence in the area as well. Their guest house or (summer house) as they called it, was built next to the main house and the barn was almost as interesting as the two homes. They would cook in the summer house because it would be cooler for this purpose.
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