Place: near Dalton, Wayne County, Ohio · Tradition: Swiss Mennonite
About
Founded in 1819 by four Jura families (Peter Lehman, Isaac Sommer, Ulrich Lehman, David Kirchhofer) after Benedikt Schrag settled in Wayne County in 1817; named after the Sonnenberg congregation in the Jura (Sonnenberg congregation). Mother settlement of the Swiss at Bluffton (1833) and Berne (1838–54). Host of the 1878 conference of the Ohio and Indiana Swiss congregations. Much of the congregation later affiliated with the (Old) Mennonite Church, not the General Conference (Smith pp. 385–386).
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Record compiled 31 October 2026.
About this research
Supporting documentation is linked throughout. This project is an exercise in AI-assisted research and development, and I haven’t manually verified every link or conclusion. All transcriptions and translations of Swiss parish records were made with AI, and their accuracy should be treated accordingly.