Word: yoder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent news reports on the so-called sensational lawsuit of Andy J. Yoder, an Amishman of Paint Township, Ohio, asking $40,000 for being "mited" [TIME, Nov. 17] calls for an explanation...
...Yoder filed suit because he has had the ban placed upon him. To be "mited" means that a former good member of the Amish Church has gone astray from the Amish interpretation of the Bible, and although he may continue to sleep in Amish homes, he is shunned. Members are advised not to eat with the offender, to refrain from any business dealings or associations with him, and in general to disregard...
Amishman Andrew J. Yoder, 33, and seven times a father, wrestled with his conscience. Twice a week he had to drive his 1½-year-old daughter Lizzie 15 miles in a square-rigged buggy so that she could see a doctor. To ease the trip for Lizzie, Andrew wanted...
...years thereafter, Yoder was "mited." He was a social outcast. No Amish cobbler would fix his shoes. Even his brother Dan could not eat with him. When he was out threshing, he had to take his meals in barns or cellars-alone. Said he: "It was like feeding the dog out of a dishpan. And I felt like a whipped dog." Once Bishop Helmuth tried to force him off the 50-acre farm in Paint Township that Andrew works with his father. Bespectacled, meek-mild-looking Andrew pulled the Bishop out of his house by the seven-inch hairs...
...Wayne County Common Pleas Court against the Bishop and his elders and asked the court also to make the elders call off the "shun." Last week in Wooster, a jury of nine men and three women, none of them Amish, listened sympathetically as the thin-faced, round-bearded Yoder retailed his woes...