История славянских протестантских общин: генеалогические записи и документы

ery glad this correspondence in our family can go on in this way. We in our fanily are all well, happy, and of courage. Our daughter Irene with her two child- ren are still living in our house. Wesley, her husband, is not yet discharged from the navy. Daughter Josephine and Bruce also live in our house, and are both working in the City Hospital. Miriam and Jimmie are still in Ottawa. I am, as before, an accountant for an Insurance Co. I like my work very well. My dear Kathryn is weli and happy and tends to house duties. The weather in December has been very cold for over a week. Some nights 34 below zero. 1945 is now over and looking back we find very many things have happened and much history was mace. On the other side of this page I am briefly bringing a Family Record of our Ancestors. Our parents emigrated from Zrimea, South Russia, to America and settled on the plains of Central Kansas in 1874 in the village "Gndenau" of which you see a picture on the other side. fo them 11 children were born, 8 boys and 3 girls. Five boys and 2 girls were born in South Russia and of them one girl died when yet an infant. In America twins were born twice. First 2 boys and of them one died when yet an infant. Second twins were one boy and one girl. The names of the children are John, Elizabeth I who died an infant, Elizabeth II, Abram, Isbrand, Henry, David, the twin brothers, Bernhard and Jacob. Jacod died in infancy. The other twins were a boyc and a girl, Peter and Lena. fhe first house in the picture of "Gnadenau* is our old home. The twin brothers and my twin sister and I were born there. Much work, poverty, sick- ness, and other hardships made the pioneer years very hard. With tears in her eyes our Mother has told us how hard it had been to nurse her last twins through their infant years. We read Psaim 121:5. “The lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.” This Keeper did not slumber nor sleep over our old pioneer home. We 7 vrothers and 2 sisters all grew up and the lord cared for us, preserved us, and blessed us wonderfully. The Lord preserved our going out and our coming in, on the farm and in schools. You see their pictures on the other side. I am sorry the picture of our sister Elizabeth has not been available. You see the pictures of our Parents and our Grand- parents. Next you se® records of our Great Grandparents and Maternal Great Great Grandparents and one Great Great Great Grandfather born 1694-251 years ago. In the year 1886 when I was 8 years, our parents moved with us out of the village “Gnadenau” and settled on a farm, the second picture on the other side. Today we look around and we find our parents, our sister Llizabeth, brother Abram, brother Isbrand, brother Henry and brother David are not here anymore. They have died and passed away. Only brother John, the oldest, and the 3 youngest--brother Bernhard