With Zimmerly, Steiner, Luginbuhl, Suter, Hilty, Geiger, Welty, Moser and many other local family connections
Within these two family portraits represent a large segment of the Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Settlement.
The photos feature a family of Schumachers and Dillers. However, the larger circle connected with these photos embraces the last names of Zimmerly, Steiner, Luginbuhl, Suter, Hilty, Geiger, Welty, Moser and many other familiar local family names.
Two persons connected in these photos are Lena Diller, who married Menno Schumacher. Links to both families, whose stories are elsewhere in our Swiss Connection follow, as do photo identifications.
Swiss Connection Index - this page includes over 45
Bluffton-Pandora Swiss family genealogies
Christian P. and Regina Steiner Schumacher family photograph taken in 1896
Front from left, Christian P., Orlin, Salena, Albert, Hiram, Regina and Oliver.
Back row from left, Helen, Menno, Noah, Samuel, Cyrus, Reuben and Sarah.
Sons and daughters of John G. and Elizabeth Schumacher Diller
(photograph taken in the 1890s)
Front from left, Lena, Will, Bertha and Noah.
Standing from left, Amos, Lavina, Sarah (Mrs. Samuel Bame) and Elmer.
Lena married Menno Schumacher, who is in the other photograph in this feature.
Lena Diller Schumacher and Menno Schumacher
Edgar L. Schumacher, son of this couple, published the 204-page book
"Life in the Bluffton and Pandora, Ohio, Communities, 1877-1910:
Excerpts from the Bluffton News."