The Great Trek of the Russian Mennonites to Central Asia, 1880-1884, Fred Richard Belk, 1976

12. Bartsch, Unser Auszug, p. 38; CB (July, 1881), pp. 51-53; MR (February 1, 1882), p. 2. 13. GB (October, 1880), p. 77. 14. Discrepancies as to the actual numbers involved in the second journey are as follows: Jacob Toews, ‘‘Short Sketch,” p. 15 (23 wagons); Bartsch, Unser Aus- zug, p. 44 (12 families); Klaassen, “Memories,” p. 3 (12 families and 29 wagons); BM (13 families and 34 wagons); Cornelius Krahn, Mennonite Weekly Review (April 29, 1948), p. 8 (13 families and 28 wagons); Carl Jantzen, “A Brief Sketch,” p. 7 (12 fami- lies and 32 wagons); and DB (November 12, 1947), p. 5 (13 families). The above differ- ences are not unusual as one studies source materials of this movement to Turkestan. One newspaper account, CBB (February 15, 1882), p. 30, even has the group leaving from another town — Lysanderhoh. 15. GB (October, 1880), p. 76; Klaassen, “Asienreise,” p. 2; Toews, “A Short Sketch,” p. 15. 16. Klaassen, “Memories,” p. 2; Klaassen, “Asienreise,” p. 2. There are many dis- crepancies in these two MSS by the same author. 17. Klaassen, “Asienreise,” pp. 2-5. 18. GB (October, 1880), p. 77. 19. Klaassen, “‘Asienreise,”’ p. 9. 20. BM; CBB (February 15, 1882), p. 30. 21. Klaassen, ‘Memories of a Journey,’ p. 11. 22. Art Toews, ‘‘A Translation of ‘About the Immigretion of the Mennonites to Central Asia’ by M. Klaassen”’ (research paper, Bethel College, February, 1957), p. 3. 23. Klaassen, “Asienreise,” p. 17. 210 The Great Trek of the Russian Mennonites 24. Klaassen, ‘Memories of a Journey,” pp. 14-15. 25. CBB (February 15, 1882), p. 30. 26. Ibid.; Klaassen, ‘‘Memories of a Journey,” p. 17. Chapter 8 1. Eldon Smith, A History and Record of the Schartner Family (Newton, Kansas: Herald Book and Printing Co., 1952), p. 70; Mrs. Siebert Goertz, ‘‘Translation of Parts of Mother Goertz’s Diary, 1929-1930: page 12 and Past the Middle of the Book” (MS in MHLA: n.p., n.d.), p. 3. 2. Helene Goertz, Family History of Siebert Goertz and John Harms and Their Descendants (Newton, Kansas: privately published, 1965), p. 120. 3. Ibid., 119-121; Mrs. Siebert Goertz, “Translation,” p. 3; Cornelius Krahn, “Taurida,’ ME, IV, p. 687; Siebert Goertz, “Mother Goertz’s Diary of 1933’ (MS in MHLA, n.p., n.d.). 4. Cornelius Krahn, ‘‘Abraham Peters,’ ME, IV, p. 152; Krahn, “Taurida,” ME, IV, p. 687; Krahn, “Ukraine,” ME, IV, p. 766; Helene Goertz, Family History, p. 120; Siebert Goertz, ‘‘Mother Goertz’s Diary.” 5. GB (October, 1880), p. 76-77. 6. ZH (July 7, 1880), p. 102. 7. Eldon Smith, A History, p. 70; Lorene Dick, ‘“The Story of the Dirks Family” (research paper, Bethel College, January, 1959); Krahn, “Waldheim,” ME, IV, p. 876. 8. Goertz, Family History, pp. 33-34; Mrs. Siebert Goertz, ‘“Translation,”’ p. 3; Jacob Reimer, “Article,” Hillsboro Vorwdrts, XXXVI, No. 52 (December 30, 1938), 3; the Bartsch map states that 54 wagons and 56 families made up the group. 9. Smith, A His