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

69; Art Toews, “A Translation,” p. 7; CBB (July 15, 1882), p. 111; Carl R. Jantzen, “Story of My Ancestors,” pp. 10-12. Chapter 12 1. MR (February 1, 1882), p. 1 2. CBB (January 15, 1882), p. 14; Jacob Reimer, “‘Article,”’ p. 7. 3. MR (September 15, 1882), p. 2. 4. Ibid. 5. CBB (July 1, 1882), p. 103. 6. CBB (July 15, 1882), p. 132. 7. BM; Bartsch, Unser Auszug, pp. 46-47, 81. 8. Jacob Reimer, ‘‘Article,”’ p. 7; MR (weekly, July 4, 1883), p. 2. 9. CBB (December 1, 1882), Pp. 181; C. Krahn, ““Aulie Ata,” ME, I, p. 190; Krahn, “The Mennonites of Russia Today,” Mennonite Life, XXIV, No. 3 (July, 1969), 117. 10. Htstory, Dates and Experiences Peter and Maria Abraham Horn Family, p. 4; BM. 11. MR (September 15, 1882), p. 2; Schellenberg, “A Modern Day Moses,’ p. 6. 12. Allworth, Central Asia, p. 120; Schuyler, Turkistan, Vol. I, passim. 13. DB (November 19, 1947), p. 7; Johannes Bartsch, Geschichte der Gemeinde, pp. 140-141; Stumpp, HB (1959), 17. 18; BM; Siebert Goertz, ‘‘Mother Goertz's Diary for 1933.”’ 14. Pierce, Russians in Central Asia, p. 8. 15. CBB (December 1, 1882), p. 181. 16. Ibid; Goertz, Family History, p. 34. 17. MR (weekly, December 19, 1883), pp. 1-2. One district chief suggested that the Mennonites register young men 15 and older so they could say they constituted 136 families instead of a mere 80 in order to qualify for more land. See MR (September 15, 1882), p. 2. 18. Janzen, “Colony,” p. 284. 216 The Great Trek of the Russian Mennonites 19. Ibid., MR (semimonthly, March 15, 1883), p. 4. 20. GB (February, 1883), pp. 12-13. 21. MR (November 15, 1882), p. 1; MR (March 15, 1884), p. 4, lists the dead as the wife of David Reimer, formerly of Wernersdorf, Abraham Wiebe, son of Peter Wiebe, the son of Abraham Peters named Abraham, two sons of Cornelius Jantzen, who ar- rived ill from the Trakt, and a single man named Gustav Riesen, who died at Hermann Epp’s home. 22. MR (weekly, December 19. 1883), pp. 1-2. 23. Jacob Reimer, “‘Article,’’ p. 7. 24. Ibid.; Siebert Goertz, ‘Mother Goertz’s Diary’; Mrs. Siebert Goertz, ‘Trans- lation of a Diary,” p. 3. 25. MR (semimonthly, June 1, 1883), p. 2; MR (semimonthly, October 1, 1883), p. 1. Five of the families in Tashkent were formerly from Kuban. 26. MR (semimonthly, June 1, 1883), p. 2. Benjamin Wedel’s daughter died of small- pox. 27. MR (semimonthly, February 15, 1883), p. 3; MR (weekly, March 21, 1883), p.1. 28. Janzen, “Colony,” pp. 285-286; MR (semimonthly, November 15, 1883), p. 2. 29. MR (semimonthly, October 1, 1883), p. 1. Of this 620 rubles ($310.00), a Mr. Schmidt was given 41 rubles and 25 kopecks, and Cornelius Eckert received 57 rubles and 75 kopecks. Cornelius Esau got 206 rubles from an Elder Gaeddert in Kansas, and 488 undesignated rubles came from Heinrich H. Richert of the Alexanderwohl Church of Newton, Kansas. In all, 2,086 rubles were donated to the group during the winter of 18