Chris Pulver of Bluffton has donated a newly published book entitled The Neumanese of the Eastern Settlement of Wells County, Indiana to the Wells County Public Library. Mr. Pulver is the caretaker of the Apostolic Christian Church located on 800 East near Vera Cruz.
The Neumanese of the Eastern Settlement of Wells County, Indiana focuses on the old Apostolic Cemetery located on the south side of the church. It includes a brief history of the Wells County Apostolic Christian Church and obituaries of the early settlers buried in the old cemetery. The term Neumanese was used in the nineteenth and early twentieth century to refer to the Apostolic Church congregation after it was established in 1858. The community around Vera Cruz was referred to as the Eastern Settlement by the residents of Bluffton. It was also known as the Emmental Settlement because many of the early settlers that came to this area of Wells County in 1852 were from the Emmental region of Switzerland.
