Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Isn' t love grand
I recently read an obituary in our local paper for an Amish man. Not unusual for some one living in Northeast Ohio, but what was unusual was the number of immediate relations listed in the obituary. Besides his wife, there were five sons, seven daughters, 91, count them 91, grandchildren, and 28 great-grandchildren. If just that immediate family got together and you included the spouses, you would wind up with some 300 people at these shin digs. I mean three hundred is the size of you average wedding, and this is just one side of the family! I mean, I know that the Amish Community is large in Ohio, but this one family is the local Amish Church. But over all you have to admire the love that couple shared was extrodinary.