... In this little village, picturesquely located at the foot of the mountains in a narrow but lovely valley, many years ago, Hohannes (John) and his good wife Hunazant (Obedient) had learned the truth and held it through much persecution.  Years before our present visit I had sat in a dim and smoky apartment of Hohannes's house and read to him and the people gathered in, from the large print Bible which had grown yellow from smoke and soiled from much usage... (Home and Work by the Rivers of Eden, Parmelee, 1888)