tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652704569409741127.post8293533231254673338..comments2019-07-19T10:28:54.073-04:00Comments on Find Me On the Road Less Traveled: "Those Stubborn Yoders"Merle Yoderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12824968398046514871noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652704569409741127.post-79008686203128852752013-04-01T19:43:50.245-04:002013-04-01T19:43:50.245-04:00And Susanna's grandma was a Yoder as well.... ...And Susanna's grandma was a Yoder as well.... And trust me, Dustin is showing all the signs of Yoderism. Poor guy...Gary and Suhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09452864835894555652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652704569409741127.post-12115593084894394952013-01-29T21:33:29.100-05:002013-01-29T21:33:29.100-05:00As the only one of your four uncles NOT to marry s...As the only one of your four uncles NOT to marry some Yoder, I got a great laugh out of this post! As you know, your dad's (and my) only other brother (Sanford) also married a Yoder, though from yet an other completely unrelated clan, as far as we know.<br /><br />So just to be different, I married a Wert, whom I later learned is actually my 7th or 8th cousin, according to the "Hochtetler" genealogy book.<br /><br />Now, Merle, if you really want to write something to make people's eyes glaze over, try doing a post on your thrice-widowed great-grandfather Dan Yoder, whose third wife, your great-grandmother Elizabeth Miller, had a younger sister Katie who later married her husband Dan's oldest son John (by Dan's first wife). <br /><br />Having father and oldest son marrying sisters is interesting enough, but the plot thickens. Three of John and Katie's sons (Dan, Ed and Tobe) and one of Dan and Elizabeth's own sons (your grandfather and my dad, Ben) all married daughters of Eli and Fannie Nisly. So my father was a half-uncle of Dan, Ed and Tobe through his father, a cousin through their mothers, and then their brother-in-law through marriage. <br /><br />I know this sounds incestuous, but it really isn't, it just creates a family tree that begins to look more like a brush pile.<br /><br />Incidentally, after your great-grandmother Elizabeth died, her grieving husband Dan later married a widow with 13 children, some from her late widowed husband's first marriage. <br /><br />I kid you not.<br /><br />Are you following me, Merle? Clear those glazed eyes, Merle! harvspothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15733381818821830887noreply@blogger.com