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This is the farm of Michael Stutzman Sr., the grandfather of Joseph Stutzman. According to land deeds, Michael came to Indiana about the same time as many of the early Amish settlers (abt. 1842). Just prior to his death in 1864, he conveyed an acre of land to the church trustees to build the Clinton Frame meetinghouse. The wood-frame structure is long since gone and the huge Clinton Frame Mennonite Church sets where this photograph was taken. Many of the early meetinghouses were situated near a stream which this photo can attest as in the foreground runs a small creek where likely many baptisms took place (not by immersion but pouring water over the head).
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