Amos K. Stoltzfus, recorded April 1, 1892; Deed Book Y,Vol. 13, p. 547, Lancaster County Court House, Lancaster,Pa. 16 Deeds between Amos K. Stoltzfus and Henry L.Lapp,recorded April 1, 1893, Deed Book G,Vol. 14, p. 295, and August 7, 1893, Deed Book I, Vol. 14, p. 496; both at Lancaster County Court House,Lancaster, Pa. 17 Diary of Samuel S. Smucker,collection of the author. In the entry for Tuesday, April 11, 1893,Smucker writes, "Jonathan [a brother of Samuel's] at frolic at Henry Lapps to raise a house and stable at the old road." The "old road" referred to here is what today is known as Route 340, the old Philadelphia Pike. In the entry for Thursday, May 23, 1893, Smucker noted that he attended "a frolic to raise Henry Lapp's barn." 18 Garvan,Introduction. 19 Reported by the Lancaster County correspondent for the local Amish and Mennonite newspaper, The Sugarcreek Budget, Sugarcreek, Oh., March 13, 1902, p. 2. 20 Garvan,Introduction. 21 Diary of Samuel S. Smucker,entry for July 7, 1904. 22 Lapp descendant Emmanuel Flaud, conversation with author, April 1985. Flaud lived in Henry's house and in the early 1950s tore down the shop to put up a more modem building. 23 Inventory Book V. Vol. 1, p 447. Filed July 27, 1904. Lancaster County Court House,Lancaster, Pa. 24 In his diary entry for October 14, 1904, Samuel S. Smucker notes that he "stopped at the sale for Henry Lapp's goods [and] purchased a cradle for thirty five cents." According to an article in the October 27, 1904,issue of the Sugarcreek Budget, Henry's apprentice, Noah Zook, purchased much of the shop equipment and furniture patterns at the estate sale. Thereafter,Zook opened his own shop a few miles down the Philadelphia Pike in the town of Intercourse, where he continued the business. 25 In his will, which is dated August 23, 1901, and witnessed by Lizzie Lapp and William Umble, Henry left his property, real and personal, to his brothers and sisters collectively. Lizzie apparently purchased the home from the estate. 26 Lapp descendant Amos Beiler, who resided with Lizzie for several years, conversation with author, June 1993. 27 During the nineteenth century, the Amish utilized the "German" bedset, i.e., two conventional-size pillows and one double-size bolster. Many Old Order Amish families in Lancaster County still observe this tradition today.
28 Examples of these paper patterns are in the collection of the author. The wooden case is in the collection of The People's Place Quilt Museum,Intercourse,Pa. 29 Amos Beiler, conversation with author, June 1993. 30 Lapp descendant Fannie Flaud, conversation with author, February 1987. 31 Annie Lapp King,conversation with author,September 1985. 32 Emmanuel Flaud,conversation with author, June 1993. 33 Fannie Flaud,conversation with author, February 1987. Also Emmanuel Flaud,conversation with author, June 1993. 34 Will Book Q, Vol. 2, p. 16, Lancaster County Court House,Lancaster,Pa., written August 23, 1901,registered July 21, 1904. 35 Elmer S. Beiler, letter to Die Bostschaft, the Old Order Amish newspaper published weekly in Lancaster County, Sept. 19, 1984, p. 24. 36 Emmanuel Flaud,conversation with author, April 1985. 37 A copy of this flier is in the collection of the Pequea Bruderschaft Library, near Intercourse, Lancaster County. Color slides of each piece in the Lapp collection are also owned by this organization. 38 For more on this sale, see David Luthy, "Henry Lapp: Amish Folk Artist and Craftsman," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Vol. IX, No.4(Oct. 1988), pp. 2-6. 39 See Margaret A. Witmer,"Henry and Elizabeth Lapp: Amish Folk Artists," Antique Collecting(May 1979), pp. 22-27; and Gerald S. Lestz, Amish Culture and Economy (Lancaster,Pa.: Franklin and Marshall College and the Science Press, 1984), pp. 86-89. 40 Frances Woods,conversation with author, September 1986. This information was related to Mrs. Woods by Lapp descendant Sarah Flaud, who witnessed this activity on several occasions. 41 Shortly after photography became popular in the 1860s, the Amish ministry, using Exodus 20: 3-4 as an authority, banned photographs and other renderings of human likenesses. For more on this subject, see James Nelson Gingerich,"Ordinances or Ordering: Ordnung and Amish Minister Meetings 1862 and 1878," Mennonite Quarterly Review, Vol. LX (April 1968), pp. 180-199. 42 Corinne P. and Russell D. Earnest, Papersfor Birthdays(Albuquerque, N.Mex: privately published, 1989), p. 269. 43 This piece is pictured in Decorative Arts ofthe Amish, p. 123. 44 For an illustration of this aspect of Amish art, one must look no farther than the Lancaster County diamond quilts, all of which are color variations on the same theme.
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