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Amish Return to Kiln,
(Hancock Co) Mississippi Trip. The Amish return to Kiln (Hancock County) Mississippi, on a trip to see where their ancestor, David J. Miller lived in 1930.
On the 2013 Mississippi trip will be: Sylvanus Miller, (son of David J. Miller,) Clara daughter of David J. Miller) with her husband Lamar Hershberger, Mervin Miller and Caleb Miller (son and grandson of Sylvanus Miller). They hope to visit the location of David J. Miljer?s abode, somewhere on the Cuevas Town Road, off of Highway 43. They would like to meet local persons and see the area on'a two-day trip to Hancock County. Sylvanua and Clara were small children when they left this area, so their memories are limited to family stories. Here is what they know of the Amish settlement in Hancock County.
In September, 1929, a Mississippi land agent, W.S. French and his son traveled to Nappanee, Indiana and accompanied a chartered bus of interested *Amish land seekers to Hancock County, MS. The area around Kiln was cutover pine land and when logging companies moved elsewhere, the land was being sold for farming. Many people had left Kiln, houses in town stood idle.
By November, 1929, four Amish families had moved to Kiln and lived side by side on the same street until they could clear their farm land and construct buildings. The four settlers were: John M. Hostetler of Geauga Co,
OH, Levi M. Hochstetler with his married son Monroe and his son-in-law David J. Miller all from Nappanee, IN.
The settlement received a resident minister in its second month when preacher Joe D. Coblentz located there from Stark Co, OH on Dec. 5,1929. During the seven years that Preacher Coblentz resided there, Amish church services were held at Kiln on alternate Sundays. Sunday School was held on the in-between Sundays.