A Murder in Amish Ohio: The Martyrdom of Paul Coblentz

by David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker

Book Overview

In the summer of 1957, a young Holmes County farmer was gunned down in cold blood. There was little to distinguish this slaying from hundreds of others throughout the United States that year except for one detail: Paul Coblentz was Amish. A committed pacifist, Coblentz would not raise a hand against his killers. As sensational crimes often do, the Amish murder opened a window into the private lives of the young man, his family and his community--a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467147532
• ISBN13: 9781467147538
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"