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The 2006 Tears and Ashes Tour begins at CrossRoads, with the story of the Burkholder-Myers House. It was built in 1854 by a Mennonite bishop, Martin Burkholder. About 1906 a family by the name of Myers bought it, and a recent descendant, Daniel Myers, donated it to CrossRoads in 2002.
Forty-seven
participants took part in the
2006 Tour.
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| Historian
Dale MacAllister tells the story
of Singers Glen, known for the
music teaching and publishing
ministry of Mennonite pioneer
Joseph Funk and sons. Joseph’s
one son, William, built the ornate
house in the background, which
stands beside his father’s
house and a small spring which
flows between them. |
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| Larry
Glick, dressed in period costume,
impersonates Elder John Kline
and tells his story in first
person beside the marker southwest
of Broadway where Kline was ambushed
and shot to death on June 15,
1864. Kline, both a minister
of the gospel and an herbal healer,
opposed slavery, secession, and
war. Out of deep love and devotion
to Christ and his way of peace,
he ministered to men and women
on both sides of the Civil War
conflict, and it cost him his
life. |