История славянских протестантских общин: генеалогические записи и документы

s Sh the migrations He simply begins by sayizg, “We drove to the depot o o e By 1870, 1% had baccme quite slear to tne Mennonites in Russia that the Russias Governmen$ was reversing its policy towards the Mennssites, particulary the issue of military exemption. Realizing that Russia would not long remain a piace of religious free dom, more than ten thovsacd made preparsiioss to seek a new land. Im i874, the whore Krit= mer Menninite Brethren Chum2h migrated from ¢he trinsa to tha plains of seatral Kansage The jourtay tegas un May Gv, i874 and ended at Peabody, Xansaz, August 16 of the sams yeate The name of the ship vpon which they crossed ths Atlantic was the $. 8. Gity of Brockiyze 3 | aOaPEPERRDRP ReCPIrere veces senteen renee Tryst rer 77e cei lds cts Danone aA eS aaah setae an A tl trea ia a a dn alah Md eA eS il A Dh ere matali Ma PONS 4 Sia ML pA I MORE AY OIL FNL REELS TLE Q. -- _——— +2 “ee --—<—- et ee a nl ani teed a RN SH eH é ‘ . 4 “ > i ~ - - ’ : - 4 a- ‘ ran a owe ne rr o- = “‘Ploneer Life re et 2% Elder Wiebs left his grovo at Flkhar?, Indiana, for several cate while hs wea’ atead %o Xansas %9 select a piace for hia grout, After be had toueht 22 ections of land from the Eanta Fe Railroad Company at $3.00 an acre, he wrote ts the group Ke Bikhar% to coms. Altheugh most of the faniiies in the group were extremely poor, evss having borrowai ths monay for their transportation te Amarica, Grandfather seeza to have tees more fortunate finansialilyo At fires “the mole Krime? Mennonite B Brecaren Church ch, which cane td dmerica ia a today under Eldar Wiebs’s i3ade7 Did, )) Abtecovad > ‘ran nepiane ene vilies® system of life £0 commca 45 Russias Tw miles soitceast of Hilistoro a sits for a villacs calisd Crsde"aa was saiesieds Thea lich? teard ahaatlees were built, wells dic, and iand prepared tor ee ees crops Pricasa for various naeded zsad were high, Wheat was 7Us, cora $2.25, and potatses esid for $2.00 psr teshel, in 1885, Giandfather mved ous of the villages Ecssenaa and sevy.ad cro2 his own farp as did most of tha other families in the viliase. Ia icerica tae viliage way of lifa was 10% practical. Grandmother, £7) 7 FAB ‘important, Grandmother must "=¢ te forzattea in this tiocrarhy. Nothing is kniwa of har qe At the age cf twenty, che marrisia totes aig Ee £3005 to hava possessed a deli sonstituticoa, In Grandfavner’s writincs eh are tany reierences to haz fillzsssaz, Tis pitts pers of picneer priratioas, firss im Crinea tad inem fm Aangzes, put a gtaat strain woen her limited strengsh. Then, too, i$ mist te renentered that she gare birth #2 eleves children in a tins whes medical cars, hospitals, acid geseral Kacwiedgs si sniid CAFS Wers Very LsacePro , Eight ysara aftsr coming to America, her oldest on Iantan Elfzebeth, married Jascod Klassen, laavinye Grandmother alozs wish all hes housework. ‘Since her oniy omer daughter, Helsna, was tes a mere child, Grandmother found her