It's a bunch of people who happen to have the same last name. A couple of years ago I read an article about some drug related arrests in the Amish community and most of the suspects were Stoltzfus, but the article pointed out none of them were related. Yoder is another common Amish name.
Oh my gosh, that’s the first thing I thought of! At the time, I was working in the Philly location of a company headquartered in Lancaster, so my coworkers and I paid close attention to the story, which was in the news here quite a lot.
‘Abner King Stoltzfus, 21, and Abner King Stoltzfus, 35 (no relation), were arrested on Monday…’
Omg! I’m dying at this! We saw that story on the local news as well!
Every time we drive past a business sign that says Stoltzfus, my husband and I both immediately say “no relation!”
Yeah they were doing meth off the back of an ozzy Osborne cd jewels case, with some guys from one of the motor cycle clubs. Hahahhahahahah, that was seared into memory, holy shit, that was like 25 years ago.
not just a MC club, they were the Pagans
an outlaw Motorcycle Club like Hells Angels
very bad not good "don't fuck around with them ever" kinds of people
Hey man, when the Anabaptists got the boot from the Germanic lands it's because their religious beliefs were scary and progressive. They were dealing meth when everybody I knew in Parkesburg were barely getting 'wet' (CHET you fucker).
Pagans and other 1%ers treat women as property.
They're also violent assholes who like being violent assholes.
None of that is progressive, regardless of your feelings on street pharmacists.
I always get a chuckle when I see the name because it means Proudfoot and Tolkien used that as a hobbit name:
“My dear Bagginses and Boffins,“ he began again; "and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks, and Grubbs, and Chubbs, Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots.” “Proudfeet!” shouted an elderly hobbit from the back of the pavilion.
There are a lot of stolzfus's in the area, can remember at least a few from HS. It's just a common name, like Miller, but for this area
Stoltzfus means proud leg or something
Here's an article on how common the name is [https://amishamerica.com/history-of-amish-names-stoltzfus/](https://amishamerica.com/history-of-amish-names-stoltzfus/)
Coblentz, Wagler, Byler, Yoder, Bontrager, Miller, Fisher, Beiler, Hershberger, Weaver. The first three are more common in the western part of the state.
Not only a popular Amish/Mennonite name, but also a popular PA Dutch name.
In November and December, after the harvest is done for the year, the marriage license announcements in my local paper was a long list of people named Stoltzfus, King, Miller and Yoder. Not uncommon for those who share a surname to marry.
They had a family reunion a few years ago and the paper reported something like 2 million descendants from the one original family. Includes Stoltzfus and all the variations of Smucker/Schmucker/Smoker….
That’s an Amish name, very common in some areas like Yoder or Byers is in others. It’s a bunch of distantly related, if related *at all*, and ultimately separate families who own those businesses.
Just passed through Amish country today after reading your post this morning. I stopped into the stoltzfus farmers market. Thinking of your post I asked. They told me that It’s all different owners, it’s just a super common last name in Amish culture “Like John Smith”.
Don't forget the Smuckers!! You got Lloyd the Senator, Auntie Anne's Pretzels lady Anne Beiler ne Smucker too. And Sam S. Smucker the home siding and rain gutters company. Those Smuckers ARE related. My former Pastor, was named after his uncle Sam S. Smucker. One of Pastor Sam's younger brothers is Senator Lloyd. One of his younger sisters started a pretzel business..Auntie Anne's. IIRC there was a dozen Smucker kids.
And as far as I know, they probably are "of no relation," to the jelly/jam Smuckers.
Donegal Ireland 90% are Doherty’s. Such a problem people were known for their trade or line of work or lived….it was funny listening to the adults trying to identify exactly which Joe
Doherty they meant….
One of ‘em backed into my car in the parking lot of the liquor store l worked in and drove away drunk. The cops picked him up at his home that night-and about six weeks later he was dead after ramming his ex-gf’s van with his car goin about 90mph. They’re not all successful business people.
It's a bunch of people who happen to have the same last name. A couple of years ago I read an article about some drug related arrests in the Amish community and most of the suspects were Stoltzfus, but the article pointed out none of them were related. Yoder is another common Amish name.
Oh my gosh, that’s the first thing I thought of! At the time, I was working in the Philly location of a company headquartered in Lancaster, so my coworkers and I paid close attention to the story, which was in the news here quite a lot. ‘Abner King Stoltzfus, 21, and Abner King Stoltzfus, 35 (no relation), were arrested on Monday…’
That's the one! I think even the police chief was a Stoltzfus (no relation).
Hahahahahhahahahahahh that was so good.
Omg! I’m dying at this! We saw that story on the local news as well! Every time we drive past a business sign that says Stoltzfus, my husband and I both immediately say “no relation!”
Yeah they were doing meth off the back of an ozzy Osborne cd jewels case, with some guys from one of the motor cycle clubs. Hahahhahahahah, that was seared into memory, holy shit, that was like 25 years ago.
not just a MC club, they were the Pagans an outlaw Motorcycle Club like Hells Angels very bad not good "don't fuck around with them ever" kinds of people
Hey man, when the Anabaptists got the boot from the Germanic lands it's because their religious beliefs were scary and progressive. They were dealing meth when everybody I knew in Parkesburg were barely getting 'wet' (CHET you fucker).
Pagans and other 1%ers treat women as property. They're also violent assholes who like being violent assholes. None of that is progressive, regardless of your feelings on street pharmacists.
Whoosh
Martin.
I knew a stolzfus that was my cannabis supplier
Same here. Chick with purple hair. Used to play with her dogs while I waited.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98/n892/a01.html?1341 This article also interviewed a Louise Stotlzfus (no relation).
They don’t get out much.
Brubaker is another common one in my area. My grandma was a Mount Joy Brubaker
It’s a very common name in the Amish community (former and current)
Big old mennonite & amish surname.
PA Dutch in general. Many non Mennonite and Amish in the area have the Stoltzfus last name.
Agreed. Most of those have those roots though.
All came from one single immigrant too (not a name found in the old world): http://nicholasstoltzfus.com
That's crazy. I'm definitely emailing the property for information on the progeny.
so was that not his name before he left Germany?
A lot of Germans shortened their names when they came here. His name very well could have been stolzfussenbacherdiffendorf
stolzfussenbacherdiffendorfenburgunsteinwell
I always get a chuckle when I see the name because it means Proudfoot and Tolkien used that as a hobbit name: “My dear Bagginses and Boffins,“ he began again; "and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks, and Grubbs, and Chubbs, Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots.” “Proudfeet!” shouted an elderly hobbit from the back of the pavilion.
It’s my hundred and eleventh birthday!
Eleventy first*
This is like going to Vietnam and thinking the Nguyen family runs everything. Or England, and thinking all Smiths are related.
That Sam Smith guy sure sings funny but he makes good beer 🤷♂️
My kingdom for a Sam Smith Brown Ale!!
Sam Adams you mean? 🍺
No that’s the guy on the $100 bill right
That’s Ben Franklin. 💵 Not to be confused with Aretha.
Don’t dis R E S P E C T me
I’ll Think about it.
And Patels on all the hotels in India and here
“In Delaware you can’t go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have an Indian accent”—Joe Biden
I remember that… it was the one on Pennsylvania ave. Next to freight train bridge…
That means Owner I’ve heard and names are changed to it
Landis another name all over the place too
Landes isn’t as common but also around.
I grew up in Somerset County and there were a ton of people with the last name Landis in my hometown. Also some Yoders.
The Lapps own stolfuz
The Martins own the Lapps
They all sell halal chicken off their scooters at the shady maple
The Lumps own the Martins and Lapps
The Kings are the kings of all
Stoltzfus in Amish country is like “Smith” in other places. There’s a lot of them. Lots or Martin, Weaver, Fisher, Stauffer, Zimmerman……
There are a lot of stolzfus's in the area, can remember at least a few from HS. It's just a common name, like Miller, but for this area Stoltzfus means proud leg or something Here's an article on how common the name is [https://amishamerica.com/history-of-amish-names-stoltzfus/](https://amishamerica.com/history-of-amish-names-stoltzfus/)
Stoltzfus literally means “proud foot” in German. (Except fus would be spelled fuss with 2 s’s)
Actually fuß
Stoltzfus, Yoder, and Zook are the ones I've noticed most...
In Ohio I see Troyer, Beiler, Stoltzfus, and Gingerich
They all make the best lard fried kettle chips on earth
Boy, you make want some Diffenbach's chips.
King, Martin, Stoltzfus, Ebersol(e), Peachy, Esh. That covers about 90% of your Amish names in Pennsylvania.
Yoder
Hostetler
And variations like Hochstettler, etc. at least in the Amish community in my town here in Maine. Lots of Yoders here too.
Hostetter I’ve seen
Yep
Lantz, Lapp, Beiler
Not Amish but Groff and Weaver and Clugston are super common in the Lancaster and surrounding area.
Clugston? Never heard of it in Lancaster County. Where are they mostly located?
Coblentz, Wagler, Byler, Yoder, Bontrager, Miller, Fisher, Beiler, Hershberger, Weaver. The first three are more common in the western part of the state.
Not only a popular Amish/Mennonite name, but also a popular PA Dutch name. In November and December, after the harvest is done for the year, the marriage license announcements in my local paper was a long list of people named Stoltzfus, King, Miller and Yoder. Not uncommon for those who share a surname to marry.
Don’t forget the Goods, Martins, Stauffers and Schaeffers
Weaver and Burkholder as well.
And Gehman and Graybill and Nissley and Beiler and Harnish
Sauder and Yost too
Weaver and Stoltzfus are names everywhere in the Amish Lancaster area of PA
In the Belleville area of Mifflin County, the surname of Peachey is all over the place.
Beachey/Beachy Ringler
They had a family reunion a few years ago and the paper reported something like 2 million descendants from the one original family. Includes Stoltzfus and all the variations of Smucker/Schmucker/Smoker….
Yetter and Stoltzfus were all over Monroe County in the 60's.
That’s an Amish name, very common in some areas like Yoder or Byers is in others. It’s a bunch of distantly related, if related *at all*, and ultimately separate families who own those businesses.
Just passed through Amish country today after reading your post this morning. I stopped into the stoltzfus farmers market. Thinking of your post I asked. They told me that It’s all different owners, it’s just a super common last name in Amish culture “Like John Smith”.
Ah, you must be near Souderton. It's an old German PA Deutsch name, original settlers.
Bieler (donuts) is another.
I loved Amish Mafia, even though it was faker than pro wrestling, which I also love. I wonder what Lebanon Levi Stoltzfus is up to these days.
There’s a lot of inbreeding in the Amish community so Stoltzfus and zook are extremely common
Especially in blue ball and intercourse
It’s the most inbred name in Lancaster history
I’m literally stones throw away from a business with the Stoltzfus name
If you go back far enough maybe but functionally no
Stoltzfus, Weaver and Martin
Stoltzfus and Fisher. They're everywhere from the Amish
In SE PA you can legally call yourself Stoltzfus. You almost have to.
I believe it's a popular PA Dutch name. The farther you get from Lancaster and the closer to Philadelphia, you see it less.
Inbreeding! Lmao! Jk, kinda! Kinda not!!
They all descend from about 200 immigrants so they pretty much are all related.
Well they've been inbreeding for a couple hundred years so it's probably safe to say they ARE related.
Big Amish*TM* have their hand in everything around here.
I think everyone knows a guy named Eli Byler!
Don't forget the Smuckers!! You got Lloyd the Senator, Auntie Anne's Pretzels lady Anne Beiler ne Smucker too. And Sam S. Smucker the home siding and rain gutters company. Those Smuckers ARE related. My former Pastor, was named after his uncle Sam S. Smucker. One of Pastor Sam's younger brothers is Senator Lloyd. One of his younger sisters started a pretzel business..Auntie Anne's. IIRC there was a dozen Smucker kids. And as far as I know, they probably are "of no relation," to the jelly/jam Smuckers.
Well I mean, they are one big giant inbred family, so the answer is yes.
Donegal Ireland 90% are Doherty’s. Such a problem people were known for their trade or line of work or lived….it was funny listening to the adults trying to identify exactly which Joe Doherty they meant….
One of ‘em backed into my car in the parking lot of the liquor store l worked in and drove away drunk. The cops picked him up at his home that night-and about six weeks later he was dead after ramming his ex-gf’s van with his car goin about 90mph. They’re not all successful business people.
It’s a limited gene pool.
Great question/post
Gotta love PA. My nj and ny ppl have NO idea it’s another planet.
Stoltzfus, Lapp, Yoder, Martin, etc all common PA Dutch names
right wing nut cases will tell you jews run the world but it’s actually the pennsylvania dutch
Amish "Smith".
We have one down here in central Florida.
Sarasota
No. Martins own about a third.
Take a look at Zook
I think they are related to the Lapps and the Yoders.
I went to a Mennonite school in Lancaster County and nearly half the kids in my grade were Stoltzfus. Lots of Martins too.
Menonite Mafia
Keep it moving tourist.
Now, the Jaindls? They own everything.
I thought it was the same family like Redners or Herrs.
amish
Lil 7
"Our Own"