The Tobe Amish, also called Tobe Hochstetler Amish, Old Order Tobe Amish or just Old Order Tobe to distinguish them from the

New Order Tobe Amish The New Order Tobe Amish, or often only New Order Tobe, are a small subgroup of Amish that belongs to the New Order Amish. In 1967, they split from the Tobe Amish, who in 1940 had split from the Troyer Amish, a very conservative group.

, are a small subgroup of the Old Order Amish, that emerged in 1940 through a split from the

Troyer Amish The Troyer Amish or Stutzman-Troyer Amish are a conservative subgroup of Old Order Amish. History In 1932 bishop Eli A. Troyer withdrew from the Swartzentruber Amish in the Holmes/Wayne County settlement in Ohio and began the Troyer church in Wa ...

. They live in

Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...

History

The Tobe Amish have their roots in the most conservative Amish subgroup, the

Swartzentruber Amish The Swartzentruber Amish are the best-known and one of the largest and most conservative subgroups of Old Order Amish. Swartzentruber Amish are considered a subgroup of the Old Order Amish, although they do not fellowship or intermarry with more li ...

, who split from the Old Order mainstream in a process from 1913 to 1917. In 1932 the somewhat less conservative Troyer Amish split from the Swartzentrubers and in 1940 the Tobe Church split from the Troyers. The more progressive group that left the Troyers in 1940 was led by minister Tobias (Tobe) Hochstetler, who was accused of dishonesty in a business dealing. The group led by Hochstetler consisted mostly of his extended family, comprising only some 5 to 6 nuclear families. In 1967 there was another split from which the

emerged.

Population and congregations

In 2011 the Old Order Tobe Amish had 10 church districts in 4 settlements. According to Kraybill et al. the defection rate of their young people is 6.1 percent.Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner and Steven M. Nolt: The Amish, Baltimore, MD, 2013, page 163.

References

{{Amish Old Order Amish Ohio culture * Pennsylvania German culture in Ohio Christian organizations established in 1967 Anabaptist denominations established in the 20th century