Fragments of a Life: A Speculative But Plausible Semi-Narrative of Christian Nisley, 1804 Immigrant to America Consignment Newton Lake

Newton Lake

Mount Carmel

Salineville

The memory of the soldiers who saved the Republic of the United States from the destroying hand of a deeply-laid and long-premeditated Rebellion will be ever sacred in the hearts of the American people

Reistville

Fragments of a Life: A Speculative But Plausible Semi-Narrative of Christian Nisley, 1804 Immigrant to America Consignment Newton LakeThe author traces the family name of his great great grandfather, 1804 immigrant to America, Christian Nssli Nisley, from its origins in Canton Zurich, Switzerland, to the Palatinate where that branch seems to have disappeared until, almost 100 years later, it re appeared in what is now North Central Germany. Yoder uses fragments of information from both primary and secondary sources to weave speculative but plausible connections between the immigrant