Where are they now: Sarah Grezlik

Sarah J. Grezlik moved on with her future on Nov. 19, 2010. Leaving the TR was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made. I'm a history buff and being a part of a newspaper that can trace it's beginnings clear back to the 1870's made leaving even more difficult. I truly did not want to leave, but I have always had dreams of being in business for myself and my dream was stronger than my desire to stay.


On the Monday following my departure I filed for an LLC and started a partnership with Ryan Albright, a Multi-Media Specialist, from Uhrichsville. Our new business is called Malachi Marketing, LLC and we specialize in Marketing Negotiations, Web design, and print products such as business cards, tri-fold brochures, catalogs, magazines and much more.

The name Malachi is from the Old Testament, it is the last book in the Testament. The definition in the Hebrew language for Malachi is messenger, so in essence we are "Messenger Marketing".

On January 1, 2011 we launched our first website, Amish Shop Online. The purpose of this site is to give the Amish a site that will allow them to be on the web in accordance to their individual church restrictions. Each church determines what level of advertising each shop can do. Some can have their full catalogs online and others can only have minor listings while others can have a splash page that tells about their business and how to make connections. You can visit Amish Shop Online at www.amishshoponline.com. I invite you to check out the site. I would love to hear your feedback as well. You can reach me at MalachiMarketing@gmail.com.

Miller's Quality Crafts from Farmerstown is our first client and kept us quite busy building a full online catalog for his wholesale business. It was very exciting to see our dream start off with such a huge commitment.

We have many other ventures in the works and we are looking forward to all of the future successes that are headed our way. As we grow, so will our need for staff that is proficient in the area of marketing, web design and copy editors. We are accepting applications to keep on file for when we are ready to start building our staff.

My husband Ron and I continue to operate a beef cattle farm in the Tappan Lake region and during these cold winter months my husband stays very busy selling firewood. He has customers that come as far away as Canton. Unbelievable considering where we live! They really like the quality of his seasoned firewood and so they will drive the distance to get firewood that actually burns when you fire it up.

I am still very busy keeping up on my "dead people". I bought into Ancestry this year and I have had so much fun finding census records, birth records, death records and even newspaper articles that were published in the 1800's. It has been a blast for me. My mother, Elsie Tatman, gave me the genealogy bug when I was a little girl. She would take me with her whenever she would work at the Tuscarawas County Genealogical Society. In those days it was located in the New Philadelphia area. I can remember at least two of the different locations that it was moved to during the 70's. I have located and recorded almost 9,000 family members in my husband and my family trees.

I have information on one of my husbands lines that dates clear back into the 1400's! My favorite find was the diary of Ron's direct ancestor, Johan Wilhelm Hoffman. The diary is in the possession of the Library of Congress. I sat there and copied every single page! It was written in German, but fortunately for me a Professor had taken the time to do an interpretation of the diary so I copied that as well. It is very interesting to follow Wilhelm's journey as he left the old country and traveled to America to follow his dream of freedom to worship as he believed. They were under severe persecution for their beliefs in Germany and were forced to pay high taxes and to serve the country even if it went against everything they believed in.

 His diary documents everything from being forced to serve in their military in the middle of the night to the amounts of the taxes that her was forced to pay. He also talks about a woman who became vocal on the town square about her husband being forced into service the night before and they slaughtered her on the spot.