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BRUNGARDT : DREILING : HAMMERSCHMIDT : HAMMERSMITH : WINDHOLZ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Generation No. 1 Schmidtberger was born 1798 in Herzog, Volga District, Russia, and died in Herzog, Volga District, Russia. He married SPOUSE in Herzog, Volga District, Russia. She was born 1800 in Herzog, Volga District, Russia, and died in Herzog, Volga District, Russia. Generation No 2 Katherine Schmidberger was born May 02, 1827 in Herzog, Volga District, Russia, and died August 19, 1876 in Victoria, KS b-St. Fidelis Cem. Victoria, KS. She married Johannes George Vonfeldt 1843 in Herzog, Volga District, Russia, and died peril 21, 1885 in Victoria, KS., b-St. Fidelis Cem., Victoria, KS Generation No. 3 Katharina Vonfeldt was born October 26, 1844 in Herzog, Susly, Russia., and died April 13, 1881 in Victoria, KS,b-St. Fidelis Cem., Victoria, KS. She married Peter (Doppler) Brungardt 1864 in Herzog, Susly, Russia, son of Balthazar Brungardt and Margaret Schamme. He was born March 19, 1845 in Herzog, Susly, Russia, and died April 18, 1925 in Victoria, KS, b. St.Fidelis Cem., Victoria, KS. Generation No. 4 Margaretha Brungardt was born April 04, 1865 in Herzog, Susly, Russia, and died January 17, 1888 in Victoria, KS, b. St. Fidelis Cem., Victoria, KS. She married Johannes Peter Riedel October 30, 1882 in Victoria, KS, St. Fidelis Cem, son of Martin Riedel and Magdalena Appelhans. He was born December 05, 1864 in Herzog, Susly, Russia, and died June 22, 1931 in Ellis, KS, b. St. Mary's Cem., Ellis, KS. Generation No. 5 Agatha Riedel was born November 22, 1884, and died October 22, 1960. She married Joseph Mondero 1913. He was born April 03, 1886, and died November 07, 1974. Generation No. 6 John F. Mondero was born October 01, 1922. He married Hazel Pratt 1947. She was born May 07, 1930 in England. Generation No. 8 Cindy Rose Flaz was born December 17, 1967 in Salina, KS. She married (1) David Jackson May 05, 1990 in Salina, KS. She married (2) Craig Joseph Walters July 29, 2000 in St, Mary C.C. in Salina, KS, son of Gerald Walters and Marjorie Rohr. He was born September 19, 1970 in Hays, Kansas. (d. April 9, 1935) Johannes Fidelis--Dec. 10, 1885 (m. Anna Brungardt) (d. Nov. 3, 1957) Michael--April 18, 1889 (m. Anna Sander) (d. Aug. 30, 1961) Catherine--July 24, 1892 (m. Anton Wagner) (d. May 6, 1964) m March 30, 1897 Anna Elizabeth Geist nee Bieker b. Sept. 8, 1875 d. Nov. 18, 1954 p. Conrad Bieker Magdalena Pfannenstiel Dorothea--Feb. 22, 1898 (d. July 5, 1899) Leo--March 30, 1899 (d. April 10, 1900) Josephine--Aug. 30, 1900 (d. Aug. 25, 1903) Mary--Jan. 23, 1902 (m. Joseph J. Dreiling) (d. Feb. 24, 1980) Clara--Aug 24, 1903 (d. Aug 27, 1903) Jacob--Aug. 24, 1903 (d. Aug 25, 1903) Wendelin--Sept 1, 1904 (m. Catherine Gassman) (d. June 27, 1972) Bonaventure--May 2, 1906 (m. Catherine Brungardt) (2) Mary Rupp Leiker nee Hertlein) Otto-Oct. 19, 1907 (m. Evelyn Windholz) (d. Jan. 16, 1984) Philomena Hilda--Feb 13, 1909 (m. Anton Windholz) Anselm--Dec. 1, 1910 (m. Aureila Stabb) (d. Feb. 15, 1975) Leo--Feb. 17, 1911 (d. Feb 20, 1911) Herman Joseph--June 23, 1912 (m. Teckla Sander) Lawrence--Oct 26, 1913 (m. Rose Haas) Carolina Anna--May 5, 1915 (m. Edward Schrant (2) Joe Dubois) Catherine Elizabeth Geist--Aug 23, 1892 (m. B.J. Wagner) (d. Nov. 17, 1973) Ferdindand Geist--Sept 5, 1894 (m. Mary Ann Dreiling) (deceased) Elizabeth Geist--Feb 14, 1896 (m. Ray Linenberger) (d. Nov 17, 1972) Bill Geist--April 5, 1897 (m. Lizzie May) (d. Dec 23, 1982) Immigration for Johannes (Jacob) Hammerschmidt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Immigration for Johannes Hammerschmidt 08/03/1876 Arrived in New York on The SS SUEVIA from Hamburg and Havre Agnes Wittman was born August 13, 1877 and married Martin Quint . She died August 22, 1940 NN: Wittmans's Klena Came on SS Mossel 1876 His parents were Alexander Wittman and Katherine Folwerk Peter Wittman was born March 10, 1838 and died March 3, 1918. Katherine was born July 7, 1842 and died January 22, 1915 5/21/1885; Louis, Russia d. Descendants of Yunker/Junker Generation No. 1 Yunker/Junker was born 1776 in Herzog, Susly, Russia, and died in Herzog, Susly, Russia. He married SPOUSE in Herzog, Russia. She was born 1778 in Herzog, Susly, Russia. Children of Yunker/Junker and SPOUSE are: Matthew (Yunker/Younger) b. 1803, Herzog, Susly, Russia; d. Herzog, Susley, Russia Michael Yunker/Younger b. 1804 Herzog, Susley, Russia; d. Brazil Johann Peter Yunker/Younger b. 1805, Herzog, Russia; d. 1877, Topeka, KS, b-Topeka, KS Generation No. 2 Michael Yunker was born 1804 in Herzog, Susley, Russia, daughter of Meier. She was born October 16, 1824 in Herzog, Susley, Russia, and died 1914 in Catherine, KS. Generation No. 3 Johannes M. Yunker was born February 19, 1857 in Russia, and died June 26, 1909. He married Catharina Margaretha Pfeifer 1877 in Russia, daughter of Michael Pfeifer and Theresa Knoll. She was born December 1857 in Russia, and died January 21, 1893. OUR GERMAN-RUSSIAN HERITAGE I have located several references that indicate that the surname Dinkel if of occupational origin, one of those names derived from the trade or profession once pursued by the original bearer. In this instance, the name Dinkel cna be traced to the Germanic word "dinkel", meaning "spelt" Spelt was a grain similar to barley and wheat, which was grown extensively in the German speaking states during the middle ages. In those days it was common practice to identify a person with the type of work he did. Thus a person (farmer) that grew spelt was named Dinkel occurs in 1364. Many of the Germanic people departed from German during the late 1700's and early 1800's due to the disaster in that part of the world following the Seven Year War (1756-1763). Family tradition suggests that our DINKEL ancestors emigrated from Koblitz, Bavaria in 1764, during the exodus of Germans to Russia. There was a major economic crisis in all Europe after the war, poverty was rampant and soldiers were roaming the countryside looking for work and something to eat. Catherine the Great of Russia, of Germanic ancestry, had vast expenses of land that she wanted settled, developed and protected from the heathen nomadic tribes that lived in scattered sections of the Russian steppes. In 1762 she issued an invitation, referred to as a "Manifesto", to the European peoples. This invitation, being rather vague, produced few results so she issued a second invitation in 1763 containing 10 articles making specific promises to anyone that settled in Russia. This invitation garnered many people, including some 25,000 Germans from 1763 to 1767, willing to accept her invitation. From 1764, when the first settlers arrived in the Saratov region of the river Volga, until 1768 some 104 villages were established, 44 on the Bergseite and 60 on the Wiesenseite of the Volga. The villages on the west side, the mountain side, of the Volga were on the BVergseite, those on the east side, the meadow side, were on the Wiesenseite. The village of Herzog, on the Weisenseite, along the river Karaman was established in 1766. Times were extremely difficult when the settlers first arrived. They had to erect their own shelters and establish their villages in the vast expanse of the Volga steppes. Their initial shelters were mere earthen huts. The original settler list for the Colony of Herzog, dated 14 July 1766, comprised of 35 families does not contain the surname DINKEL. It does, however, contain teh name of Johann and Anna Kuhn, names in positions 48 and 49 on Andreas A DINKEL's Pedigree Chart (included). The first reference DINKEL (Nicolaus) was located in the original settler list for the Colony of Mariental dated 1766. His name has not been found in any of the 1798 census that have currently been translated. The census of Herzog, dated 2 June 1798, does indicated a Jakob DINKEL, had resided in Herzog but had moved to Leichtling in 1786. The 1798 census of Leichtling indicates that Jakob had resided there but had died prior to this census. His wife, Helen Ortman, and their children are included in the census of 7 October 1798. This census indicates that Joseph, a son of Jakob and Helena, was 3 years old at the time. Additional research disclosed that Joseph was the father of Peter who was the father of Andreas. Eventually, the privileges bestowed on the settlers by the Manifesto of 1763, especially the exemption from military service, aroused the resentment of the Russians. In January 1874 a military law was passed requiring the settlers to serve in the armed services. This, the repeal of the special privileges granted by Catherine the Great in the Manifesto, aroused extreme indignation in the German settlers. In the spring of 1874, meetings were held in Herzog on the Wiesenseite, and Balzar on the Bergseite, to select scouts to the United States in search of new land to settle. The scouts returned with favorable reports. The initial military draft of settlers in 1874 precipitated matters and the first departure of settlers for the United States occurred in October 1875. A larger group followed, departing in June 1876. Our ancestors, Andreas DINKEL and Katharine KUHN, were among this latter group. Departing Saratov, this group occupied 17 coaches, some progressed to Hamberg and the remainder to Bremen. Andreas and Katharina were in the group progressing to Bremen. The Bremen group took passage on the North German Lloyd S.S. Mosel, under the command of ship master H. A. F. Neymaker. The fare was 38 rubels (27.36) per passenger. Katharina is listed as passenger 514 in steerage and Andreas is listed as passenger 542 in steerage on the passenger list of the ship, which includes 705 passengers. The S.S. Mosel arrived athe the Port of New York on 29 July 1876. Those coming to Kansas immediatly made arrangements, at rubles (11.52) per passenger, to proceed to Kansas arriving at Herzog/Victoria on 3 August 1876, the rubel was worth 72 cents. After arriving in Herzog, Victoria, Andreas worked at various employments including a tour with the Kansas Pacific Railroad. He completed application to homestead the south 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of section 32-13-16 on 26 December 1877. Andreas and Katharina married on 21 January 1879. Their first child, Andreas A., was born on 28 July followed by nine more children, for a total of five boys and five girls. He purchased his first parcel of land, the north 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of section 32-13-16, from Magdalena Riedel, on 24 October 1884, for $425.oo. He was granted a homestead patent for the south 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of section 32-13-16 (applied for on 26 December 1877) on 27 Jaunary 1887. The patent was given under the hand of President Grover Cleveland. He purchased additional lands in ellis and Trego Counties., He also purchsed Lot 5 in Block 2 in the Nicholaus Dreiling addition to the town of Herzog on 26 February 1901 for $300.00 from Martin and Magdalena Riedel. For a more detailed account of the exodus from Germany to Russia, life in the lower Volga region of Russia, the exodus to America and early life of the Volga German settlers in Ellis County, Kansas, a bibliography is available for your purchase. >From: "Margaret Heart" <marge2003@hotmail.com> >To: hershey2@comcast.net, mmheart2003@hotmail.com, joy@ruraltel.net, margaret_heart2003@hotmail.com, marge2003@hotmail.com, MWalker@fhsu.edu >Subject: Re: Dinkle Query >Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:23:02 +0000 > > >The DINKELS > >Dinkel, ? married ? >Nothing is known of the above people. Their children were Margaret >Dinkel-- (m. Michael Peter Kuhn) >Jospeh Dinkell--(m. Catharina Riedel (2) Catharina Graf >I have np concrete evidence that Margaret Dinkel was a sister of >Joseph. I believe this to be so, due to what persons have told me, >especially her great grandson who still lives in Kansas. > >To help understand the relationship between the Dinkel and Kuhn >families, I will list the children and grandchildren of Margaret >Dinkel and Michael Peter Kuhn, on whom I have been able to find >information. > >1st Generation > >Dinkel, Margaretha married Michael Peter Kuhn >d. in Russia d. in Russia > >Thier children > >Johannes m. Katharina Brungardt >Michael m. Agnes Dreiling (2) Elizabeth Sander >Andreas m. Catharina Younger >Martin m. Catharina ? >(Male) m. Margaretha Dinkel >(female) m. ? Rohleder > >2nd Generation > >A. Kuhn, Johannes m. Katharina Brungardt >b. 1814 >d. 3-21-1887 d. in Russia > >Their children > >Michael Kuhn m. Susanna Aeur) >Andreas Kuhn m. Maragaret Glick >Johannes Kuhn m. Barbara Haas >Barbara Kuhn m. Peter Andreas Billinger >Katharina m. Andreas Dinkel >Anna Kuhn m. Nicholas Heili (2) Johannes Riedel > >Margaretha Dinkel--Michael Peter Kuhn > >2nd Generation > >Kuhn, Michael m. Agnes Dreiling >b. 9-25-1822 >d. 7-22-1891 d. in Russia > >Their children > >Agnes Kuhn m. Johannes Rome (2) Casper Gerstner >Katharina Kuhn m. Johannes Peter Dinkel (2) Catharina Appelhans >(3) Margaret Gerber >Magdalena Kuhn m. Heinrich Gerber >Johannes M. Kuhn m. Barbara Dreiling > >After Agnes (Dreiling) Kuhn died, Michael married Elizabeth Sander, >widow of his cousin, Joseph Dinkel. Michael and Elizabeth came to >America in 1876. >2nd Generationn > >Kuhn, Andreas m. Catherina Younger >b. 1835 b. 1835 >d. 1888 d. in Russia > >Their children > >Joseph Kuhn m. Katherine Margaret Appelhaus >Andreas Kuhn m. Anna Maria Braun (2) Christina There >Johannes Kuhn >Peter Kuhn >Michael B. Kuhn m. Theresa Hertel >Anna Catharina Kuhn m. Michael Goets (2) Adam J. Riedel >Anna Maria Kuhn m. Leonard Dinkel >Christina Kuhn (single) > >Martin Kuhn in Russia tells me that Joseph and his wife came to >America with their children in the early 1900's. A daughter of >theirs, Florentine, died in Victoria on 3-13-1909. Then on >1-24-1910 his wife Katharina, also died. Shortly after her death, >Joseph, his three sons, and daughter Catherine returned to Russia. > >Michael B. Theresa (Hertel) Kuhn came to America. They lived near >Walker, Kansas. > >Three children of Anna Catharina Kuhn and Michael Goetz came to >America in 1908. They were Andrew married to Pauline Krenzer, Maria >married to Michael Billinger, and Adam married Barbara Goetz. > >Michael Dinkel--Michael Dinkel Kuhn >2nd Generation > >D. Kuhn, Martin m. Catharina ? > d. in Russia d. in Russia > >Their children > >Johannes Kuhn >Michael Kuhn m. Therea Rohleder >Martin Kuhn m. Elizabeth Haal >Martiann Kuhn (single) >Barbara Kuhn m. Franz Younger >Anna Kuhn m. Andreas Richmeier > >Michael and Theresa (Rohleder) Kuhn were the parents of Joseph Kuhn >married to Barbara Riedel. They lived in St. Pater, Kansas. >Another son of theirs lives in the city of Talgar, Republic of >Kazakh, U.S.S. R. He is Martin Kuhn married to Paulina Getz >(Goetz). I have receive several letters from Martin over the last >two years. He has been of much help in sending information to me. > >Margaretha Dinkel--Michael Peter Kuhn > >2nd Generation > >Kuhn, Male m. Margareth Dinkel > > d. Daughter of Joseph Dinkel and Catharina Riedel > >Their children > >Kuhn, Margaretha m. Jacob Dreiling > >Their children > >Kuhn, Margaretha m. Jacob Bollig > >I hhve found only one member of this family, the daughter, >Margaretha married to Jacob Bollig. She died on 7-30-1913 and is >buried at Ellis, Kansas. It was possible for me to trace the family >from the information I received from Frank M. Dinkel of Victoria, >Kansas and Simon and Mary (Kuhn) Bollig of Ellis, Kansas > >2nd Generation > >Kuhn, (female) m. ? Rohleder > >I am uncertain of this couple. Herman, grandfather had a sister >married to a Rohleder. He was unable to give further information. > Genealogy of Fredrich and Lucy Werth Co-Founders of Schoenchen, Kansas By Rev. Alvin V. Werth, O.F. M. Cap., M.A. Saint Joseph Catholic Center 215 West 13th Street Hays, Kansas 67601 Three days after ALVIN WERTH's death, his guardiann EARL MEYER began his funeral homily saying, "It would be difficult for anyone on such short notice and. with such limited time to offer an adequate reflection "on Alvin's long and full life. Three months later it is still difficult." "Anyone who knew Fr. Alvin will recall," Fr. Earl continued, "that he was meticious and extracatious in planning. all the details of his life." Perhaps it is not so well known that he was also very carerful in documenting most of it. Alvin understood the value of documentaation for any history, and left 15 cartons of it to be digested at some future date. One of the most precious of these records is a 56-year-old motionpicture of his first mass at Schoenchen. He also left reams of notes on local and family history, thousands of sermonds, and a box after box of photographs. There are also about 500 cassette tapes which will need to be carefully sifted before deciding what to keep. Many were taped off Mother Angelia's Eternal Word Television Network, which he loved to watch in his last years, but many others are recordings of interviews he conducted over the years of family members and other people from earlier eras. Promptled by the 80-year-old four-seasons candle which, at the urging of Alvin's mother, had burned at Alvins' baptism, his first Mass, his 25th and 50th jubilies, and now his funeral, Earl summed up his life byy referring to and commenting on four overlappping seasons of Alvin's life: his family, his priesthood, his mature study, and his retirement. Alvin, the 3rd oldest of the 12 children of Nikolaus and Magdalena (Hertel) Werth, was born 29 Augg. 1907 and baptised under the name Vincennt the following day by Fr, Charles Minig. DUrinng high school at Hays Catholic College, he played the violin in the school orchestra and sang in the Messiah chorous at the normal school (now Ft Hays State University. At the age of 18, he graduated first in his class from junior college at Hays Catholic College, and soon after left for the noviate at Herman. Earl added that "In one sense he never left home. He spoke of his parents often and as though they were still alive. He followed every detail, almost daily events of his extended family and the activities of his hometown. More than once, when he was too sick or too waek to make a trip to Victoria, when news came that a grandniece or grandnephew was being married in Kansas City or Chicago; he instantly recovered and enjoyed the trip." Alvin's sudden death cut short the completion of a family-related project he had been working on for some time, a genealogical study of the Werth family he was nearly ready to take to printers. Alvin received minor orders from. Bp. John M. McNamara in Cumberland on 4 Oct. 1930, and the three major orders from Bishop Francis Tief in May of 1932: subdiaconate May 1 at Concordia, diaconate May 5 at Victoria, and priesthood May 8 at Hays. "He was rightly proud of being the first priest froom his home parish at Schoenchen." Fr. Earl commented. "He enjoyed his work as a priest and found personal fulfillment in his priestly duties which were many and varied. He was a pastor, a chaplain, an administrator, a religious superior, and an author in Maryland, Missouri and his native Kansas. Even late in the hospital to visit the sick; and everyone got a personal prrayeer and Fr. Alvin's special blessing." Alvin was happy in all of the pastoral assignments he held between 1933 and 1977 and corresponded withmany people in all of these places. Shortly before attending the Cresaptown MD centennary in 1985, he wrotte some old friends that he doubted whether his health would permit his traveling there, but that he would be there in spirit. "If I don't get to see you again in this life." he wrote, "I'll see you. in heaven, where there is no more pain and suffering, nothing but ssupreme happiness." In his final bulletin at Antonio, Alvin said that he left with a heavy heart because "I like it here," but added quoted Mac. 6, 22, that he had submitted to his provincial's will".. . . in a noble manner, worthy of his years, the dignity of his advanced age, and the merited distinction of his gray hair." During the course of his 80 years, Alvin seemed to have left the U.S. four times: at lesat there are references to that many foreign trips in the many boxes of documentation he left behind: a tour of 15 Italian cities, with the Fratellanza Society of St. Louis in August of 1968; a pilgrimage retreat at Our Lady of the Cape in Three Rivers, Quebec, in May 1969; a trip to Puerto Rico in 1980; and his goldenn jubilee tree in Munich, Heidelberg, Frankfort and various places in Switzerland and Austria in August of 1983. Winter for Alvin, Earl said, was a retirement, which was neither bleak no cold, but rather thoroughly enjoyed. "He dabbled into family history and church history. He renewed old aquaintances and made new ones. He relished the opportunity to observe and comment on the busy life around him... He spent many hours in the chapel. He seldom missed a service or a devotion in churchh. For all practical purposes the only television he watched were programs on religion...His interests even in retirement were apostolic." ALVIN WERTH had many periods of illness during his life, but her was able to keep active till the day of his death June 27, 1988. After a normal day's activities, he asked to be taken to the hospital and, to the surprise of even the doctor in attendance, died shortly thereafter. The origin and history of the name WERTH The surname WERTH, sometimes spelled Woerth, comes from the Gothic surname Worth. Werth, according to THE CLASSIC GERMAN DICTIONARY. (Follet Publishing Company, Chicago, IL.,) means value, worth. In 1968, this writer was in London, England, I found numerous entries of the surname Werth in the London telephone directory. I consulted a professor in a London Museum about the name Werth and he replied that a youngster he had studied about warlord general from Sussex, England by the name Werth. The Werth Coat-of-Arms (by John W. Ward and Co., 171 Meeting St. Charleston, SC) shows that people of northwest Europe having the surname Werth belonged to the Saxton tribe. In 1983 I toook a tour through Germany and Switzerland. I visited my friends, Rita and Wolfgand Shafers, in Warburg, Westphalia, Germany. In a Warburg cemetery I found a well-kept lot in which the family members of Henry Werth were interred. I also spoke with two gentlemen by telephone in Warburg who were namned Werth; one was a printer and the other was a dealer in lumber. The surname Weth also appears in Hesse, Bavaria, Baden-Wurtemburg, Germany. It appears in the cantons of Bern and Graubunden, Switzerland (B. Nussbaumer, Altmanwweg 1, CH-9012, St. Gallen, Switzerland). The WERTH FAMILY HEREITAGE BOOK (piblished by Beatrice Bayley, Inc., Sterling, PA, 1981) lists 223 Werth families in the USA. The Hays telephone directory of. 1980, in addition to Werth families that I know who live in other states, number 108 Werth families not listed in the WERTH FAMILY HERITAGE BOOK. To the best of my knowledge, there are at least 331 Werth families in the United States in 1987. The birth place of Fredrich and Lucy (Ebel) Werth is Schoenchen, Russia, located on the east side of the Volga River in the District of Samara, Russia. Schoenchen was founded there in 1770, approximately 40 miles northeast of Katharinenstadt. Schoenchen, a catholic village, was located between two Catholic villages, Solothurn (Wittman) to the north and Zug (Gattung) to the south. By 1773 Schoenchen had 54 families. In 1860 it had a population of 1200, and in 1918 it had 3194 parishioners. Capuchin priests were the first to minister ot the people of Schoenchen, followed by George Leibham, a native from German colony near Odessa, Russia, was a pastor at the time when many coolonists left for America. He built a beautiful stone church in 1903-04. He died in Schoenchen, Russia in 1910. The S.S> Suevia departed from hamburg, Germany on July 19, 1876. It landed in New York August 3, 1876. On the ship were a number of Volga German people who come from Schoenchen, Russia on the Volga. Among them were: WERTH-Fredrich and his wife Lucia and 4 children. They settled in Ellis Co. Kansas in the town of Schoenchen. The grandparents of Fredrich Werth were Carl and Catherine (Kern) Werth. THe death certificate of John Peter Werth (State of Kansas Division of Vital Statistics, 26-641) sates that Carl Werth and Catherine Kern are the parents of John Peter Werth, who was born on July 21, 18366 in Schoenchen, Russia. John Peter Werth was the youngest brother of John Werth. Therefore (concluded that the parents of JOhn Werth were Carl and Catherine (Kern) Werth. They lived and died in Russia. John Werth (1827-1875) married Anna Mertz in Schoenchen, Russia. They lived and died in Russia. John Werth farmed on a small scale and hauled the daily water supply for the village of Schoenchen from the Volga River. John and Anna (Mertz) Werth were the parents of Frederich Werth, who was born on August 15, 1846. PARENTS OF LUCY EBEL JOHN HENRY AND CLEMENTIME (LEIKAM) EBEL The father of Lucy Ebel was John Henry Ebel (the surname Ebel appears in Alsace-Lorraine, France), and her mother was Clementina Leikam. John Henry Ebel was born 1820 at Schoenchen, district of Samara, Russia. He was an attorney and a district judge. Fredrick Werth Sr., the son-in-law of John Henry Ebel, called him "Der grosse Richter" (district Judge). For a number of years John Henry Ebel kept records at Schoenchen of all marriages, births, deaths, funerals, and handled other legal documents. At the end of each year he sent all records to the city of Sarratove, Russia, where they kept on file. John Henry Ebel was also a grain merchant; he bought and sold wheat in Russia. John Henry and Clementina Ebel lived and died in Russia. THeir daughter Lucy Ebel was born Nov. 1, 1850. She married Fredrich Werth, Sr. on Sept. 27, 1867. VOYAGE TO AMERICA A few years after their marriage, together with other emigrants of Schoenchen, Munjor, and Liebenthal, Frederich and Lucyy Werth, and their childre, left the upper Volga region in June, 1876, to tavel to Saratov. After the emigrants arrived at Sartov, they boarded a train to Warsaw, Poland, Berlin, and Hamburg, Germany. They left Hamburg on the ship Suevia on July 19, 1876 and arrived a;t New York after a voyage of about three weeks. In New YOrk they made arrangements with Mr. Adam Roedelheimer, an agent of the Kansas Pacific Railraod, for transportation to Ellis County, Kansas, for the sum of $11.52 per passenger. They arrived in Hays, Kansas at 10th and Main Street, during the first part of August, 1876. On August 14, they arrived at Big timber Township in Rush County, Kansas and settled a few miles north of Liebenthal, Kansas. On Sept. 6, 1876, Fredrich and Lucy Werth's only daughter, Clementina, was born in a hastily impoverished sod hut. During May of 1877, the Frederich Werth family helped to found Schoenchen, Kansas when they moved to the Southwest Quarter of Section 28, Township 15, Range 18, which is still the site of Schoenchen in 1988. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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