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The nine deaths tie the crash for the second-deadliest crash in Wisconsin history. Nine people also died in a crash in 1937 in Manitowoc County, according to Wisconsin Watch. The deadliest crash ...
Seven of the nine victims killed Friday in a crash in west-central Wisconsin were members of an Amish community from a remote Appalachian region in Virginia.. The Clark County crash, one of the ...
Three Amish children were killed and a fourth was critically injured after a car crashed into their horse-drawn buggy on Wednesday, according to the Lansing State Journal. The collision, which ...
Charles Carl Roberts IV. On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] [3] Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, before committing ...
Amish religious practices are reflective of traditional Anabaptist Christian theology. The Old Order Amish typically have worship services every second Sunday in private homes. The typical district has 80 adults and 90 children under age 19. [2] Worship begins with a short sermon by one of several preachers or the bishop of the church district ...
The Amish believe large families are a blessing from God. Amish rules allow marrying only between members of the Amish Church. The elderly do not go to a retirement facility; they remain at home. As time has passed, the Amish have felt pressures from the modern world; their traditional rural way of life is becoming more different from the ...
The tragedy comes just one week after another fatal crash involving an Amish buggy over in Alexandria, New York. On 20 September, two children aged one and three were killed when a pickup truck ...
Edward Gingerich. Edward Gingerich (1966 – January 14, 2011) was an Amish man from Rockdale Township, Pennsylvania, who was convicted of manslaughter in the 1993 death of his wife, Katie. [1] He was the first Amish person to be convicted of homicide. [2]