The Descendants of Heinrich & Kunigunde (Doerfler) Befort
The Descendants of Heinrich & Kunigunde (Doerfler) Befort
Our forefathers who left Germany to go to Russia to make a better life for themselves and their children. It is dedicated as well to our brave forefathers who left Russia to make a better life for themselves and their children in the United States. It is especially dedicated to those of our relatives who stayed in Russia and endured over fifty years exiled in prison work camps for their crime of being of German ancestry.
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Many books and papers about other Volga German families and their descendants, have been published over the last fifty years, and are treasured documents for not only the serious researcher, but also those with a passing interest as well. This book is one the descendants of one Befort family that left Germany to go to Russia. While every effort has been made in this compilation to provide accurate and complete information, endeavors to acquire additional facts and details from both the United States and European sources continue. Any omission of person (s), places, or events that deserve inclusion herein is purely unintentional.
The founders of Munjor were part of the largest single expedition of Unsere Leute to emigrate from Russia. Under the leadership of Balthasar Brungardt 108 families left saratov by train on July 8, 1876. Their body consisted of departures from Herzog, Obermonjou, Louis, Graf, Wittman, Marienthal, Schoenchen, and Gattung. The group separated at Eydtkunen, with the Munjor founders among those electing to sail via the Hamburg-American line. Arriving in New York, they then proceeded by train to Herzog. After remaining there several days, they repaired a site on Big Creek a short distance north of the present village of Munjor. Some two months later they moved to the present town site in Section 25, Township 14, and Range 18 in Wheatland Township.
On November 1, 1876 an additional group came to Munjor. They had emigrated from Saratov on September 30 and sailed from Hamburg on the "Gellert" of the Hamburg of the Hamburg-American line. This body consisted of the following families: Among them were Conrad Befort and his wife Anna Margaretha and their children Peter, and Paulina.
The Descendants of Heinrich & Kunigunde (Doefler) Befort Descendants of Heinrich Befort
Generation 1
1. Heinrich Befort was born 1761 in Obermonjou, Russia. He married Kunigunde Doefler. She was born 1763 in Obermonjou, Russia
Children of Heinrich and Kunigunde Doefler
2. Franz Befort BORN 1787, Obermonjou, Russia Elizabeta Befort BORN 1792, Obermonjou, Russia
3. Jakob Befort BORN 1798, Obermonjou, Russia
4. Anton Befort BORN 1799, Obermonjou, Russia
Generation No. 2
Franz was born 1787 in Obermonjou, Russia. He married Catharina Elizabet? She was born 1793.
Child of Franz Befort and Catharina is? Anna Maria Befort BORN Abt. 1825. Jacob Befort was born 1795 in Obermonjou, Russia. He married Catherine Smelzer. She was born ABt. 1805 in Obermonjou, Russia.
Child of Jakob Befort and Catherine Smelzer is Anna Maria Befort BORN Abt. 1825 Anton Befort was born 1799 in Obermonjou, Russia. He married Anna Elizabeth? She was born 1803 in Russia.
Children of Anton Befort and Anna? are: Catherine Elizabeth Befort BORN 1820, Obermonjou, Russia Johannes Martin Befort BORN1834, Obermonjou, Russia Gerhard Befort BORN February 10, 1835, Obermonjou, Russia; DIED August 16, 1906, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas
Generation 3
Anna Maria Befort was born 1820 in Obermonjou, Russia and died March 04, 1907. She married JAKOB HERTEL, son of Casper Hertel and Anna? He was born 1814 in Obermonjou, Russia and died Aft. 1842 in Obermonjou, Russia.
Child of Anna Befort and Jakob Hertel is Anna Maria Hertel BORN September 17, 1841, Katheinenstadt, Russia DIED March 04, 1907, Catherine Ellis County, Kansas. Anna Amaria Befort was born Abt. 1825. She married Anton Boos, son of Gerhard Boos and Barbara Betzze. He was born in Obermonjou, Russia and died in Obermonjou, Russia. Children of Anna Befort and Anton Boos Katherine Boes, BORN December 08, 1852, Obermonjou, Russia DIED August 02, 1937, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Catherine Elizabeth Befort was born 1820 in Obermonjou, Russia. She married SR. Anton Schumacher in the Volga Area, Russia. He was born 1820 in Wittman, Russia.
More about Catherine Elizabeth Befort
Departed: 1876, Wittman, Russia
Immigration: August 03, 1876, Arrived in New York on the SS Suevia from Hamburg & Havre.
More about SR. Anton Schumacher
Departed 1876, Wittman, Russia
Immigration: August 03, 1876, arrived in New York on the SS Suevia from Hamburg & Have
Children of Catherine Befort and Anton Schumacher are: Heinrich Ferdinand Schumacher, BORN June 1842, Wittman, Russia; DIED September 03, 1920. Johann Georg Schumacher, BORN September 08, 1846, Wittman (Solothurn), Russia; DIED November 10, 1927, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas Anton Schumacher, Jr. BORN January 05, 1856, Wittman (Solothurn), Russia; DIED May 23, 1930, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas Johannes S. Schumacher, BORN December 08, 1858, Wheatmond, Russia; DIED September 03, 1933, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Gerhard Befort was born February 10, 1835 in Obermonjou, Russia and died August 16, 1906 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. He married Anna Maria Catherine Stecklein in Russia. She was born December 18, 1835 in Gatnung' (Zug), Russia, and died February 24, 1911 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas.
Notes for Gerhard Befort Ship's manifest has him listed as Gottfried Befort
More about Gerhard Befort
Burial: Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas
Departed: 1876, Obermonjou, Russia
Immigration: July 17, 1876, Arrived in New York on Ss Donau from Bremen.
More about Anna Maria Catherine Stoecklein:
Burial: Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas
Departed: Obermonjou, Russia
Immigration: July 17, 1878; Arrived in New York on SS Donau from Bremen.
Children of Gerhard Befort and Anna Stoecklein are:
Conrad Befort, BORN April 15, 1855, Obermonjou, Russia; DIED August 12, 1914, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas Anton Befort, BORN February 02, 1856, Obermonjou, Russia DIED February 26, 1929, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas Joseph Befort BORN June 28, 1857, Obermonjou, Russia; DIED August 10, 1923, Kansas City, Kansas Elizabeth Befort BORN August 06, 1860, Obermonjou, Russia; DIED March 10, 1919, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas Alexander Befort, BORN October 112, 1862; Obermonjou, Russia; DIED June 17, 1927, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas Amalia Befort, BORN August 16, 1866, Obermonjou, Russia; DIED September 17, 1936, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas Katherina Befort BORN September 08, 1869, Obermonjou, Russia; DIED August 18, 1940, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas Johannes Befort, BORN July 28, 1857, Obermonjou, Russia DIED August 18, 1940, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas Andreas Befort, BORN Abt. 1876. CONRAD BEFORT was born April 15, 1855 in Obermonjou, Russia, and died August 12, 1914 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. He married Anna Margaretha Krannewitter in Obermonjou, Russia. She was born August 10, 1856 in Obermonjou, Russia, and died August 01, 1923, in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas.
Notes for Conrad Befort: Came to the U.S. in 1876
This book is the end result of years of research into the origin and dispersal of the KRANNAWITTER family. This INTRODUCTION contains a brief description of the TWELVE chapters and TWO final sections of this book.
Within each chapter, in the even that any information was obtained from published material or from correspondence with official agencies, the particular source is cited Much of the data used in this genealogical report was also taken from personal letters and family records; these sources, too, are duly cited All of the sources used to compile this book, including those not specifically cited within the chapters, aware recorded in the bibliographic list at the end of the book.
The author wishes to express her sincere gratitude to all the people who made this report possible. Any omissions or mistakes are unintentional. Special care has been given to citing all the people responsible for the compilation of this work.
The members of the KRANNAWITTER, KRONEWITTER/Kronwitter/KRONEWITT/Kranewitter families that came to America from the Volga-German colonies in RUSSIA were among thousands of ethnic Germans from RUSSIA who emigrated in search of freedom from 1875 up to the time of the Russian Revolution. The variant spellings of the KRANNAWITTER surname evolved as family members who had moved to different parts of North and South America gradually lost contact with each other.
In the earliest Russian records, the name was spelled KRANNAWITTER. All the American spellings that eventually developed differed slightly from this original version. Later in this introduction, more attention will be given to the subject of the dispersal of this family and different spellings that ensued For the make of simplicity, in this report the surname will be referred to generically as KRANNAWITTER unless a specific family with an alternative spelling is being discussed Evidence seems to indicate, although not incontrovertibly, that the KRANNAWITTER family that migrated to the Volga colonies of RUSSIA originated in Wiesbach, a small German village in lowered Bavaria situated about 50 miles northeast of Munich. (See figure 29.) Chapter ONE of this book, WIESBACH, LOWER BAVARIA< GERMANY; THE PROBABLE PLACE OF ORIGIN OF THE VOLGA-GERMAN IMMIGRANT JOHANNES KRANNEWITTER (1731-EA. 1782), ANALYZES THE RESEARCH that led to this Tentative conclusion (Pleve 1998).
According to records contained in Catholic parish archives in Germany, Adam Kronawitter and his wife Anna _______-were parents of Michael Gronawitter (the surname was spelled differently even in the same baptismal entry.), baptized 3 MAY, 1731, at the church serving the parish of Obertrennbach, where Weisbach was located The entry stated that Adam Kronawitter was a dragonet in the army (presumably the Bavarian army) and had been stationed at Mitterfels, a town about 40 miles north of Weisbach and about 20 miles east of the city of Regensburg (Mai (Dr. Paul) 1998). The Catholic archives referred to aware the only sauce of records of so early date in Germany.
Johannes Krannewitter was the name of the man who migrated from Germany to RUSSIA, as listed in the roster of the original settlers of the Volga-German colony of OBERMONJOU, where he settled in 1767. Upon arrival at the colony on AUGUST, 1767, he stated that he was 36 years of age, that he was a Catholic, that he was from Weisbach (Germany), and that he was a baker by trade. Anna _______-, his wife, was 29 years of age (Pleve 1998).
The author corresponded with the directors of the diocesan archives that house Catholic parish records were the only records kept in these towns in the early years. The only Weisbach that had records of any KRANNAWITTER (or any other similar spelling of that surname) families living in close proximity was the village mentiONEd above.
Michael Gronawitter, baptized in 1731--according to records in Weisbach, Lower Bavaria--would have been 36 in 1767, as Johannes Krannewitter indicated that he was when he settled in OBERMONJOU in 1767. In German naming practice at the time of Johannes Krannewitter's migration, men were often given TWO names and would refer to themselves in official documents by either or both of these names. It is highly plausible that Johannes and Michael were ONE and the same. Johannes Michael was a common given-name combination. Since the Catholic Church in OBERMONJOU available for that early a date, it is impossible to verify this claim using those sources (Pleve 1999). Only circumstantial evidence can be used to provide further support for the assumption that Johannes and Michael was the same person. Particularly
relevant is the fact that the information about Johannes Krannewiter's place or origin was extracted from the list of the first settlers of OBERMONJOU (Pleve 1998).
The place of origin was extracted from the list of the first settlers of OBERMONJOU (Pleve 1998). The place of origin named in this source is by and large more specific and more reliable than that listed in the other principal source of information about the early German migrants to the Volga colonies; the Ivan Kuhlberg records, which were ship passenger lists prepared in 1766 when the first-settlers list is usually the place of birth, which makes it easier to find a connection in Germany (Schmidt 1998).
At any rate, thanks to early Russian census records an unbroken line can be traced from Johannes and Anna Krannewitter to most of the families descended from them Dr. Igor Pleve, who is on the faculty of Saratov State University and is an expert in Volga-German research, and the American Historical Society of Germans from RUSSIA (AHSGR) based in Lincoln, Nebraska, have been instrumental in providing information drawn from these early censuses. The AHSGR has published 1798 census data for OBERMONJOU and for the other Volga-German colonies (Rye 1995; Pleve 1998). Chapter TWO of this book, EARLY VOLGA-GERMAN RECORDS USED IN THIS GENEOLOGICAL REPORT, focuses on FOUR early sources that were referred to during the research process; and it summarizes the information taken from these records. Later censuses, or "revision lists" of earlier enumerations, were taken in the years 1816, 1834, and 1850 (Mai (Brent) 1998; Pleve 1998; Rye 1995; LEIKER 1999; Rupp 1999). From this Russian data and from death, census, church, family, and other records of family members who later moved to America, pedigree charts have been made fro THREE related OBERMONJOU families; KRANNAWITTER, DECHANT, and BRULL; these charts are included in Chapter TWO (See figures 1, 2, and 3).
A genealogical profile of KRANNAWITTER families living in the U.S., Canada, Argentina, RUSSIA, Kazakhstan, and Germany who aware descended from Johannes and Anna Elizabeta Krannewitter is contained in CHAPTER THREE,,AN ELEVEN-GENERATION REGISTER OF SOME OF THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHANNES AND ANNA ELISABETA (SATTLER) KRANNEWITTER. This chapter consists of a computer-generated report of ELEVEN generations. All the sources used to compile this data aware included in the bibliographic list. Many of the families are traced through only a few generations.
Before discussing any more of the content of the book, the author would like to present an abbreviated history of the Volga German colonies and in this way provide a historical backdrop for the benefit of the reader. The information which follows was taken from TWO excellent books written about the Volga-German colonies: Wir Wollen Deutsche Bleiben, by George J. Walters, 1982; and The German Colonies on the Lower Volga, by Gottlieb Beratz, 1914, translated by Leona W. Pfeifer, Lavern J. Ripley, and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, edited by Adam Giesinger, all of whom worked in cooperation with the AHSGR (Walters 1982; Beratz 1914).
The ancestors of the Volga Germans were among an estimated 27, 000 Western Europeans, primarily Germans, who migrated to RUSSIA from 1764 to 1767 upon the invitation of the Russian empress Catherine II, better known as Catherine the Great. The Catholic settlement of OBERMONJOU, which was the home of all the KRANNAWITTER families that later migrated to America, was ONE of 104 Mother Colonies--32 Catholic and 72 Protestant--established by these immigrants on both sides of the lower Volga River.
OBERMONJOU was ONE of 27 colonies founded in 1766 and 1767 by Chevailer Caneau de Beauregard, a native of Switzerland who directed a French company employed by the Russian government to recruit colonists. The subdivision in which these 27 colonies were located was called the Fief de Catherine. OBERMONJOU, which was named for the French recruiting agent Otto de MUNJOR, was founded 5 MARCH, 1767, by 82 families, including 160 males and 139 females, for a total of 299 (Stump 1978). OBERMONJOU was located about 40 miles northeast of the city of Saratov and was situated on the east side, or Wiesenseite (meadow side), of the Volga River. (See figure 30.) The west side of the Volga River was known as the Bergseite (hilly side) (Walters 1982; Beratz 1914).
To temp the war-weary farmers, merchants, artisans, and soldiers of Germany and other European countries, Catherine the Great--a German herself--issued official edicts that offered free communal land, paid travel expenses, freedom of religion (as long as the people were Christians), freedom of self-government, and the opportunity to carry on One’s particulate trade (Walters 1982; Beratz 1914).
Upon arrival in Oranienbaum, a seaport near St. Petersburg, RUSSIA, the colonists--after a difficult land and sea journey from recruiting points in Germany--received the first of many setbacks they would encounter. They were informed by the Russian Commissar Ivan Kuhlberg, who served as Catherine's official spokesman to the settlers that they would all have to become farmers, regardless of Catherine and her immediate successors. These pan-Slavic circles had grown suspicious and envious of the prosperous Volga Germans, who lost the liberty to rule themselves, to instruct their children in the German language, and to avoid conscription into the Russian army. The abrogation of these concessions prompted the Volga Germans to take advantage of an escape clause in the second of Catherine's TWO manifestos of invitations: the right to quit RUSSIA at any time after paying a tax on profits made in the empire. ONE of the destinations this time, after careful consideration
and exploration by a group of scouts appointed by the colonists, was North America--specifically the fertile Great Plains of the U.S. Others chose to migrate to South America, where they settled in Brazil and Argentina (Walters 1982).
Typical of the movement was the settlement of Ellis and Rush counties in Kansas, where between THREE and FOUR thousand Catholic Volga Germans eventually located They founded the settlements of Herzog (Victoria), MUNJOR, Katherinestadt, (Catherine), Liebenthal, Schoenchen, and Pfeifer (Walters 1982).
Several KRANNAWITTER families and individuals from OBERMONJOU are known to have migrated to America. The following paragraphs detail the dates of their arrivals, their ultimate destinations, and the different spellings of the surname they utilized. The number in superscript between the immigrant's given name and surname indicate the number of his or her generation of descent from Johannes Krannewitter, the original Volga-German settler. The parentheses after the immigrant's surname enclose a complete list of the names and generation numbers of each of his or her
KRANNAWITTER ancestors leading up to Johannes Krannewitter. This is same pattern will be used throughout this book--except when the type must be single-spaced, in which event brackets will enclose the number of the generation of descent. Chapter THREE, entitled AN ELEVEN-GENERATION REGISTER OF SOME OF THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHANNES KRANNEWITTER AND ANNA ELIZABETA SATTLER, contains a complete description of each KRANNAWITTER immigrant's family.
Brothers Johannes and Raymond KRANNAWITTER both move to the U.S. albeit at different times. Johannes came to ELLIS COUNTY, AND KANSAS, Kansas as single man in 1876. ONE of the original settlers of MUNJOR, Kansas, he later MARRIED Helen LEIKER. Raymond came to ELLIS COUNTY, AND KANSAS 1901 with his second wife Mary Krapp, son John KRANNAWITTER (who was Raymond's son by his first wife Maria Catherine DECHANT--John is the author's grandfather), and daughters Julia and Rosa KRONEWITTER (who were the oldest children of Raymond and Mary). Later, another daughter, Katherine KRONEWITTER, and a son, Joseph KRONEWITTER, were BORN in the U.S. Joseph and his sisters spelled their name KRONEWITTER, as do their descendants today. Raymond's brother Johannes and his family migrated to the U.S. in 1901, they spent a short time in ELLIS COUNTY, AND KANSAS, Kansas; then they, too, moved to New Mexico where Raymond worked with his brother. In 1907, Raymond and his family moved back to ELLIS COUNTY, AND KANSAS and settled near Schoenchen. Many years later, ONE of Johannes' sons, Michael KRANNAWITTER, also moved back to ELLIS COUNTY, AND KANSAS and settled near Severin, located about FIVE miles northwest of Catherine.
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The rest of Johannes' children remained in New Mexico, but he and his wife also eventually returned to ELLIS COUNTY, AND KANSAS where they settled in Hays, the county seat (Pleve 1998; KRANNAWITTER (Michael J. 1993.)
Margareta KRANNAWITTER, widow of Johann LEIKER, moved to MUNJOR, ELLIS COUNTY, AND KANSAS, with her children in 1876. Her son, Peter LEIKER, was ONE of the FIVE scouts sent in 1874 by the Catholic Volga-German colonies to explore the possibilities of establishing settlements in the central plains of the U.S. (Pleve 1998; LEIKER (Victor C. 1976.)
Magdalena Younger, widow of Franz Krannewitter, accompanied her daughter Barbara Krannewitter and Barbara's husband John Pfannnenstiel to MUNJOR, Kansas, by 1880. Franz was the brother of Johannes Krannewitter who was the father of Johannes and Raymond KRANNAWITTER, discussed above. (Pleve 1998; Meyer 1976).
Maria Elizabeth Krannewitter (KRONEWITTER) was the sister of Franz and Johannes mentioned in the paragraph above. She and her husband John ROHR also moved to MUNJOR by 1880 (Pleve 1998; Meyer 1976).
In 1878, brothers Michael and Joseph Kranewitter--who were brothers of the U.S. immigrants Johannes and Raymond KRANNAWITTER discussed above--migrated to the province of Entrée Rios, Argentina, with their adoptive parents Joseph and Catalina (Unrein) Wendler. They were among the founders of the Volga-German settlement of Marienthal (Valle Maria), located about 25 miles south of the city of Parana (Wendler 1990; Kranewitter (Vicente) 1990). Raphael
Kranewitter--who was probably the brother of Johannes, Raymond, Michael, and Joseph--remained in RUSSIA. His descendents are profiled in Chapter FIVE (Dreher Katharina) 1995).
Adam Kranewitter and his family moved to Valle Maria, Argentina, in 1878. They were also among the founders of that settlement (Pleve 1998; Kranewitter (Vincent) 1990.
Johannes "Weisse" Kranewitter and his wife Margaretha C. LEIKER migrated to Valle Maria in 1880. John Conrad Kranewitter and his family also migrated to Brazil in 1877 and then to Valle Maria in 1880 (Pleve 1998; Kranewitter (Vicente 1990).
Raymond KRONEWITT moved first to ELLIS COUNTY, AND KANSAS, Kansas, in 1902, and later to the Peace River valley of Alberta, Canada, in 1913. Raymond's aunt Anna Maria Krannewitter and her husband John BOOS and their children migrated to ELLIS COUNTY, AND KANSAS in 1892. Raymond KRONEWITT's first cousins Peter and Frank Kronwitter moved to the U.S.--Peter in 1903 and Frank in 1904. Peter and his wife Dorothea BOOS returned to RUSSIA in 1924 and died there. ONE of their daughters Anna Kron (e)witter and her husband John DECHANT moved to the Peace River valley of Alberta in 1915. Peter's brother Frank Kronwitter and his family settled in Pueblo, Colorado. (See Chapter FIVE). (Pleve 1998; Krapp; 1986; DECHANT 1987).
Present-day descendants of the FIVE KRANNAWITTER/Kron(e)witter families who migrated to North America, the SIX Kranewitter families who migrated to South America and TWO of the Kranewitter families stayed in RUSSIA are listed in Chapters FOUR and FIVE.
Chapter FOUR, current listings of related Volga-German families and individuals, as well as the many U.S. families that have variant spellings of the surname and do not have an obvious connection to the Volga-German families. The families are ranked according to the frequency of appearance of each particular spelling in the U.S. telephone directories or in other U.S. indexes. Also discussed are the areas in the U.S. where there are high concentrations of these families. Various immigration records, the social security Death index, and listings found on the internet were also used to compile this data.
Chapter FIVE, A FOCUS On RELATED KRONEWITT FAMILIES LIVING IN CANADA AND ON RELATED KRAANEWITTER FAMILIES LIVING IN ARGENTINA, RUSSIA, KAZAKHSTAN, AND GERMANY, provides up-to-date listings of the KRONEWITT families in Canada, Kranewitter families in Argentina, and Kranewitter families who chose to remain in what later became the Soviet Union. The information for the American KRONEWITT and Kranewitter descendents came from Internet directories. The information for the Russian Kranewitter descendants came from private correspondence. These Russian families underwent terrible ordeals to attain their present positions. Between 1876 and 1914, around 200,000 Volga Germans migrated to Siberia, the U.S. Canada, and countries in South America.
The number of Volga Germans that remained in what later became the Volga German Republic increased to around 600,000 in 1914. In 1912, the population of OBERMONJOU had reached 2,882. By 1926, it had fallen to 2,157, due largely to a deadly famine that had swept through the Volga colonies, which were already devastated by crop failures in 1920 and 1921. The previous disastrous effects of WWI and the resulting civil strife and anti-German sentiment added to the misfortunes of the German settlers. The tyrannical policies of Josef Stalin--brutally enforced by his communist cohorts, another widespread famine in 1932, the con script ion of the young men of the towns into the Soviet army, and the banishment of property holders to prison camps all contributed to the steady decline of OBERMONJOU and the other Volga-German towns. The final blow came during WWII when the German army was approaching the Volga region. Stalin, fearing collaboration of the Volga Germans with the enemy, ordered the banishment of the entire population in AUGUST, 1941, along with the abrogation of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Volga Germans, which had been established in 1924. Some 390,000 Volga Germans, which had been established in 1924. Some 390,000 Volga Germans were resettled in Siberia and Kazakhstan (Walters 1982; Beratz 1914).
Among those people resettled were several Kranewitter families. The author has contacted TWO descendants of these families: Vladimir Kranewitter and Katherine Dreher. Their story and the story of other relatives still living in RUSSIA and Kazakhstan aware recounted in Chapter 5, A FOCUS ON RELATED KRONEWITT FAMILIES LIVING IN CANADA AND ON RELATED KRANEWITTER FAMILIES LIVING IN ARGENTINA, RUSSIA, KAZAKHSTAN, AND GERMANY. Now that the Russian Government has eased restrictions on the German minority, more are trickling back to the former Volga German Republic near Savator. However, because the Russian economic situation is so bleak at the present time, many others are filling out the countless forms and submitting the endless documents necessary to immigrate to Germany. Katharina Dreher, mentioned above, and her family have joined the thousands of Volga Germans who have returned to their motherland
Chapter SIX, OTHER FAMILIES WITH VARIANT SPELLINGS OF THE KRANNAWITTER SURNAME LIVING IN EURAOPE AND SOUTH AMERICA, contains statistics on the hundreds of families scattered throughout Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Paraguay who have different versions of the surname KRANNAWITTER. These families and individuals are not obviously related to the Krannewitter couple that settled in OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA, in 1767, Any concentration of families with a similar spelling of the surname is noted Sources for this information were also telephone directories found on the internet.
Chapter SEVEN, A TRIBUTE TO WILFRED W. KRANNAWITTER (1924-1970), RADIOMAN SECOND CLASS, U.S.S. SARASOTA APA 204, WWII, IS A MEMORIAL to the author's father. Wilfred W. ("Willie") KRANNAWITTER served in the south Pacific at the end of WWII. His ship, the Attack Transport U.S.S. Sarasota APA 204, took part in the battle of WWII-- the Battle of Okinawa. This chapter includes an itinerary of all the ports of call and war-time duties of the Sarasota. Also included are photographs, a history of the Sarasota's post-war activities, and an artistic rendition of the ship itself. After the war, Wilfred bought land and went into farming and stock rising. He later fought a personal battle against the neurological disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome for 17 years before it claimed his life in 1970. (See figures 22-24).
CHAPTER EIGHT, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF TWELVE NOTED KRANNAWITTER, KRANEWITTER, KRONEWITT, AND KRONA WITTER INDIVIDUALS IN THE U.S., CANADA, ARGENTINA, RUSSIA, AUSTRIA, GERMANY, AND AUSTRIA, contains information about the lives of EIGHT notable Volga-German relatives: THREE descended from the KRONEWITT family that migrated to Argentina, and ONE descended from ONE of the Kranewitter families that remained in RUSSIA. FOUR unrelated but equally distinguished individuals are also treated: THREE with the surname Kranewitter and ONE with the surname Kronewitter.
Chapter NINE, ETYMOLOGY REFERENCES AND GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS IN EURAOPE AND THE U.S. THAT RELATE TO THE SURNAME KRANNAWITTER, includes entries taken from THREE etymological dictionaries that deal with surnames. FOUR geographical locations are also described: the hamlet of Kanawitt in Upper Bavaria, Germany: the mountain peak Kranabitsattel in the Hollengebirge mountains of Upper Austria, Austria; the airport Innsbruck-Kranebitten near Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria, and KRONEWETTER Township in Narathon County, Wisconsin.
Chapter TEN, THE KRANEWITTER COAT-OF-ARMS, AWARDED TO THE TYROLEAN COUSINS HANS AND WOLFGANG KRANEWITTER IN 1630, relates the story of the cousins Hans Kranewitter and Wolfgang Kranebitter who received a coat-of-arms in recognition of service rendered to the Austrian crown in its struggle in the neighboring Engadin region in Switzerland The Kranewitter coat-of-arms was obtained in 1950 by Richard MARRIED KRANNAWITTER (1909-1991) while he was in Germany with the judge Advocate office at the end of WWII. The relationship between the original Volga-German settler Johannes Krannewitter and the cousins Hans and Wolfgang Kranewitter is unknown.
Chapter 11, MAPS PF FORMER AND PRESENT PLACES OF RESIDENCE OF KRANNAWITTER FAMILIES IN GERMANY, RUSSIA, THE U.S., CANADA, AND ARGENTINA, includes 13 maps displaying the former and current homes of Krannewitter/Kranewitter/KRANNAWITTER/KRONEWITTER/KRONEWITT families in Europe, Asia, North America, and South America. These maps, which are taken from a variety of sources, show the historical migration of the family from the original home in Germany, to the lower Volga River valley of RUSSIA, to other parts of the former Soviet Union, and to the colonies centered in ELLIS COUNTY, AND KANSAS, Kansas; entrée Rios, Argentina; and Alberta, Canada. (See figures 29-35.)
Chapter TWELVE, PHOTOGRGRAPHS OF KRANNAWITTER DESCENDANTS IN THE U.S., CANADA, ARGENTINA, RUSSIA, GERMANY, contains photographs of some of the KRANNAWITTER/KRONEWITT/Kranewitter families and individuals that migrated from the Volga-German colonies to the U.S., Canada, and Argentina. Other photographs are of descendants of these same families living in the U.S., Canada, Argentina, and RUSSIA. (See figures 36-58).
The BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST is an alphabetical arrangement of every source used to compile this book. The list includes books, booklets, Magazine articles, Internet Websites, death records, published and unpublished family histories, private correspondence, census, and other records.
The last section of this book is a surname index which consists of an alphabetical list of the surname KRANNAWITTER have already been discussed in this introduction. The reader will notice that in many instances in this book there are also several spellings for certain given names--for example, Catherine, Catharine, Catharina, Katharina, Catalina, etc. The reason for this is that each given name is presented as it was spelled in the record that it was extracted from, as are the surnames.
To make matters worse, from 1773 to 1775 Emyliano Pugachev and his followers staged a rebellion against Catherine. They also encouraged the Kirghiz to stage a rebellion of their own. Intensifying raids against the German settlements. Large areas of the Volga colonists were devastated Some of Pugachev's followers, including about 100 Germans recruited from other Volga colonies, entered the town of Katherinenstadt, where they harassed and robbed the inhabitants of horses and guns. Katherinenstadt, the largest of the Volga colonists on the Wiesenseite, was only about FIVE miles southwest of OBERMONJOU. Amid all these tragedies, men totally unaccustomed to the rigors of farming were forced to learn that trade. Crop failures in the early years added to the colonists' desperation (Walters 1982; Beratz 1914).
After TWO generations of colonists had lived and died, conditions for the German settlers along the lower Volga slowly began to improve. They eventually prevailed and prospered As the original Mother Colonies became too crowded, Daughter Colonies were established Fortunately, the colony of OBERMONJOU was never attacked by Kirghiz or by Pugachev's rebels. In 1767, 299 people (82 families) had founded OBERMONJOU. TWO years later, the population was 324 (91 families). By 1798, when the first comprehensive census of OBERMONJOU was taken, the population had grown to 429. Through the 19th century, the population steadily increased as living conditions improved But the good times were soon to end (Walters 1982; Beratz 1914).
The number of Volga Germans that remained in what later became the Volga German Republic increased to around 600,000 in 1914. In 1912, the population of OBERMONJOU had reached 2,882. By 1926, it had fallen to 2,157, due largely to a deadly famine that had swept through the Volga colonies, which were already devastated by crop failures in 1920 and 1921. The previous disastrous effects of WWI and the resulting civil strife and anti-German sentiment added to the misfortunes of the German settlers. The tyrannical policies of Josef Stalin--brutally enforced by his communist cohorts, another widespread famine in 1932, the con script ion of the young men of the towns into the Soviet army, and the banishment of property holders to prison camps all contributed to the steady decline of OBERMONJOU and the other Volga-German towns. The final blow came during WWII when the German army was approaching the Volga region. Stalin, fearing collaboration of the Volga Germans with the enemy, ordered the banishment of the entire population in AUGUST, 1941, along with the abrogation of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Volga Germans, which had been established in 1924. Some 390,000 Volga Germans, which had been established in 1924. Some 390,000 Volga Germans were resettled in Siberia and Kazakhstan (Walters 1982; Beratz 1914).
Among those people resettled were several Kranewitter families. The author has contacted TWO descendants of these families: Vladimir Kranewitter and Katherine Dreher. Their story and the story of other relatives still living in RUSSIA and Kazakhstan aware recounted in Chapter 5, A FOCUS ON RELATED KRONEWITT FAMILIES LIVING IN CANADA AND ON RELATED KRANEWITTER FAMILIES LIVING IN ARGENTINA, RUSSIA, KAZAKHSTAN, AND GERMANY. Now that the Russian Government has eased restrictions on the German minority, more are trickling back to the former Volga German Republic near Savator. However, because the Russian economic situation is so bleak at the present time, many others are filling out the countless forms and submitting the endless documents necessary to immigrate to Germany. Katharina Dreher, mentioned above, and her family have joined the thousands of Volga Germans who have returned to their motherland
Chapter SIX, OTHER FAMILIES WITH VARIANT SPELLINGS OF THE KRANNAWITTER SURNAME LIVING IN EURAOPE AND SOUTH AMERICA, contains statistics on the hundreds of families scattered throughout Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Paraguay who have different versions of the surname KRANNAWITTER. These families and individuals are not obviously related to the Krannewitter couple that settled in OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA, in 1767, Any concentration of families with a similar spelling of the surname is noted Sources for this information were also telephone directories found on the internet.
Chapter SEVEN, A TRIBUTE TO WILFRED W. KRANNAWITTER (1924-1970), RADIOMAN SECOND CLASS, U.S.S. SARASOTA APA 204, WWII, IS A MEMORIAL to the author's father. Wilfred W. ("Willie") KRANNAWITTER served in the south Pacific at the end of WWII. His ship, the Attack Transport U.S.S. Sarasota APA 204, took part in the battle of WWII-- the Battle of Okinawa. This chapter includes an itinerary of all the ports of call and war-time duties of the Sarasota. Also included are photographs, a history of the Sarasota's post-war activities, and an artistic rendition of the ship itself. After the war, Wilfred bought land and went into farming and stock rising. He later fought a personal battle against the neurological disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome for 17 years before it claimed his life in 1970.
CHAPTER EIGHT, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF TWELVE NOTED KRANNAWITTER, KRANEWITTER, KRONEWITT, AND KRONA WITTER INDIVIDUALS IN THE U.S., CANADA, ARGENTINA, RUSSIA, AUSTRIA, GERMANY, AND AUSTRIA, contains information about the lives of EIGHT notable Volga-German relatives: THREE descended from the KRONEWITT family that migrated to Argentina, and ONE descended from ONE of the Kranewitter families that remained in RUSSIA. FOUR unrelated but equally distinguished individuals are also treated: THREE with the surname Kranewitter and ONE with the surname KrONEawitter.
Chapter NINE, ETYMOLOGY REFERENCES AND GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS IN EURAOPE AND THE U.S. THAT RELATE TO THE SURNAME KRANNAWITTER, includes entries taken from THREE etymological dictionaries that deal with surnames. FOUR geographical locations are also described: the hamlet of Kanawitt in Upper Bavaria, Germany: the mountain peak Kranabitsattel in the Hollengebirge mountains of Upper Austria, Austria; the airport Innsbruck-KranebitTEN near Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria, and KRONEWETTER Township in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Chapter TEN, THE KRANEWITTER COAT-OF-ARMS, AWARDED TO THE TYROLEAN COUSINS HANS AND WOLFGANG KRANEWITTER IN 1630, relates the story of the cousins Hans Kranewitter and Wolfgang Kranebitter who received a coat-of-arms in recognition of service rendered to the Austrian crown in its struggle in the neighboring Engadin region in Switzerland The Kranewitter coat-of-arms was obtained in 1950 by Richard MARRIED KRANNAWITTER (1909-1991) while he was in Germany with the judge Advocate office at the end of WWII. The relationship between the original Volga-German settler Johannes Krannewitter and the cousins Hans and Wolfgang Kranewitter is unknown.
Chapter 11, MAPS PF FORMER AND PRESENT PLACES OF RESIDENCE OF KRANNAWITTER FAMILIES IN GERMANY, RUSSIA, THE U.S., CANADA, AND ARGENTINA, includes 13 maps displaying the former and current homes of Krannewitter/Kranewitter/KRANNAWITTER/KRONEWITTER/KRONEWITT families in Europe, Asia, North America, and South America. These maps, which are taken from a variety of sources, show the historical migration of the family from the original home in Germany, to the lower Volga River valley of RUSSIA, to other parts of the former Soviet Union, and to the colonies centered in ELLIS COUNTY, AND KANSAS, Kansas; entrée Rios, Argentina; and Alberta, Canada.
Chapter TWELVE, PHOTOGRGRAPHS OF KRANNAWITTER DESCENDANTS IN THE U.S., CANADA, ARGENTINA, RUSSIA, GERMANY, contains photographs of some of the KRANNAWITTER/KRONEWITT/Kranewitter families and individuals that migrated from the Volga-German colonies to the U.S., Canada, and Argentina. Other photographs are of descendants of these same families living in the U.S., Canada, Argentina, and RUSSIA.
The BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST is an alphabetical arrangement of every source used to compile this book. The list includes books, booklets, Magazine articles, Internet Websites, death records, published and unpublished family histories, private correspondence, census, and other records.
The last section of this book is a surname index which consists of an alphabetical list of the surname KRANNAWITTER have already been discussed in this introduction. The reader will notice that in many instances in this book there are also several spellings for certain given names--for example, Catherine, Catharine, Catharina, Katharina, Catalina, etc. The reason for this is that each given name is presented as it was spelled in the record that it was extracted from, as are the surnames.
Gerhard Krannewitter born 1827, OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA, MARRIED Mrs. Gerhard (Christina) Kranewitter, be. c 1830, RUSSIA, DIED RUSSIA. Gerhard died in OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA. In the census Gerhard, 7, was listed at the house of parents Sebastian Krannewitter and Catherina (Brehm). In the 1850 OBERMONJOU census, Gerhard, 23, was listed with his wife Christina, 21. He is referred to in an 1878 letter from Anton BOOS to his son-in-law Adam Kranewitter of Valle Maria Argentina. Adam was Gerhard's brother.
Children: Anna Margaret KRONEWITTER born 10 Aug 1856.
Generation 1
DESCENDANTS OF JOHANNES AND ANNA ELIZABETH (SATTLER) kRANNEWITTER,
1. Johannes Krannewitter born 1731, Weisbach, Germany, Occupation: Farmer, MARRIED c. 1766, Elizabeth Sattler, born c. 1738, Germany. Johannes DIED c. 1782, OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA. Johannes and Anna Elizabeth arrived in OBERMONJOU 8/3/1767. He listed his place of origin as Weisbash, Germany, and his occupation as baker. He stated that he was a Catholic. His youngest daughter Katherine was BORN in 1779. He was not listed in a register of OBERMONJOU residents compiled in 1785. This would indicate that he died sometime between 1779 and 1785. Elizabeta and Johannes died, she MARRIED Johannes Neulist. She and Johannes Neulist have no children of their own but adopted Christian Minrad (Meinrad), an orphan from Solothurn (Wittmann).
Children:
Margareta Krannewitter born 1768
Gerhard Krannewitter born 1770
Katherine Krannewitter born 1779, RUSSIA. When the 1798 census of OBERMONJOU was taken Katherine was living at the house of her mother Anna Elizabeth Sattler and stepfather Johannes Neulist.
Second Generation
Margareta Krannewitter born 1768, OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA MARRIED Josef and Margareta were living at the house of Josef's mother Anna Maria Hartman, 68, and her second husband Wilhelm Seib, 53. I t was noted in the census that Josef's father was Valentine Neuberger, deceased
Children
Margareta Nurnberger born 1794, OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA.
Sebastian Krannewitter born 7/11/1800, OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA, Occupation: Farmer MARRIED Katherine Margareta Brehm, born c 1800 DIED 11/20/1873, RUSSIA. Sebastian died 7/11/1885, OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA. In the 1834 OBERMONJOU census Joseph, ONE month old, was listed with his parents, Sebastian and Catharina (SIS) Krannewitter. In the 1850 OBERMONJOU census, Joseph, 16, was again listed at his parent's house. In a letter written 8/14/1878, from Anton BOOS to his son-in-law Adam Krannewitter of Valle Maria, Argentina, Anton stated that Joseph was fine but that Joseph's wife had died a few weeks previously. No children were referred to in the letter.
Margaretha Krannewitter born 1839, OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA. In the 1850 OBERMONJOU census Maria margaretha, 11, was listed at the home of her parents Sebastian and Catherine Krannewitter. No further information is available.
Peter Kronwitter born 1860, OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA: Farmer MARRIED c. 1880 in OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA, Maria Dorothea BOOS, born 1858, OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA (daughter of Anton BOOS and Katherine Margaret Schreiner) DIED 15-Octo1934, Volga Colonies, RUSSIA. Peter died 2-Dec-1932, RUSSIA. Peter and his family moved to the U.S. in 1903. After living in the U.S. for 21 years Peter and his wife Maria Dorothea BOOS returned to OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA. Finding living conditions too difficult Peter and his wife attempted to return to the U.S. but got only as far as the Black Sea when Russian soldiers caught up with them and took them back to OBERMONJOU. In 1931 Peter was imprisoned and sent to Siberia. In 1932 he retuned to OBERMONJOU where he died Maria died of starvation a few years later. He spelled his last name "Kronwitter."
Anna Margaret KRONEWITTER born 10 Aug 1856, OBERMONJOU, RUSSIA, MARRIED Conrad BEFORT DIED 12 Aug. 1914, MUNJOR, Ellis Cnty., K.S. Anna died 1 Aug 1923, MUNJOR, Ellis Cnty, KS. Anna Margaret KRONEWITTER BEFORT's death records list her father as Gerhard KRONEWITTER (sic) and her mother Christina, no maiden name was given. Anna Margaret and her husband Conrad BEFORT moved to the U.S. in 1876. Informant (Barbara STEINBOCK).
I would like our family history to begin with my great grandparents. Conrad and Anna Margaretha (Kronnewitter) BEFORT, along with their TWO small children, Paula and Peter, emigrated from Obermonjou, RUSSIA, situated along the Volga, north of Saratov.
Leaving on SEPTEMBER 18, 1876, they arrived NOVEMBER 1, 1876. They landed in New York and immediately headed westward Conrad and Anna, along with other immigrants, settled in and founded what is now known as MUNJOR, Kansas. Upon their arrival (as this was open prairie) the first in order of things was to provide shelter. Their first home was built of sod cut from the prairie. After taking care of their immediate needs, and to survive the coming winter, the next most important thing was to build a place of worship.
Their first church was built in 1877. They were strong in their Catholic faith, and their lives were centered on their religious training.
Conrad and Anna were farmers and were active in their community and church. As the years passed, they eventually had a family of thirteen children. My grandfather, John C. BEFORT, was BORN in MUNJOR, FEBRUARY 18, 1890. He was the ninth child and youngest son.
Conrad died AUGUST 12, 1914, survived by his wife and TEN children. Anna lived in her home in Hays, Kansas, for some years, and the remainder of her life with her son and daughter-in-law John and Barbara.
John C. BEFORT, son of Conrad BEFORT and Anna Margaretha (Kronnawitter) BEFORT, was BORN on FEBRUARY 18, 1890. Barbara Steinbock, the daughter of Alois and Elizabeth Steinbeck, was a sister to triplets She was BORN on JUNE 3, 1893. On OCTOBER 24, 1911, they were MARRIED in MUNJOR, Kansas. They began their life together on a farm several miles west of MUNJOR. They remained there until 1920. During those years FIVE children were BORN to them; Josephine, 6/27/1912; Albina; 9/3/1913, Clarence, 8/4/1915; William, 2/2/1917; and Alex, 10/17/1919.
In the year of 1920, John and Barbara sold their farm and purchased half a section of land half a mile north of Hyacinth, Kansas. The home, barn and other buildings had been built about THREE years earlier. TEN other children were BORN to them the following years; Elizabeth, OCTOBER 19, 1920; Agnes, 7/8/1922; Jane 5/3/1924; John Jr. 9/18/1925, Ester, 8/31/1926; Bernice, 4/24/1928; Irene, 12/13/1929 twins Alois and Conrad, 10/30/1931 and Francis 10/6/1933.
John Jr. and Elizabeth died as infants. Alex was a veteran of World War II in the U.S. Army and saw action in Germany and France. He died in 10/1951. He was survived by his wife, Rose (Stecklein) BEFORT, and infant daughter, Gloria. Irene died 8/16/1965, at age 35, survived by her husband, Leroy Wilson and small son, David Conrad (twin son) died in 1947 at Seventeen years of age. Francis died in a power line accident 8/22/1961. He was in the army from 1954-1955. He was age 27 when he passed away. He was survived by his wife Darlene (HAMMERSMITH) BEFORT and TWO small daughters, Rosemary, 4 and Margaret, twenty-THREE months old
John and Barbara worked long hours to provide for and rear their family. Barbara would begin her day at 4'oclock in the morning to do her baking, laundry, and help with outside morning chores, including milking cows and feeding animals. During harvest she was in the fields working along side the men. She was also a seamstress and made most of the children's clothing.
Their children received their elementary education at Hyacinth in a ONE-room school, where all EIGHT grades were taught by ONE teacher. Simon GOETZ and Florence Ross were the teachers during those years. Their children walked to school most of the time as it was only about a mile away from home. However, other times, after a particularly heavy snow storm, the children looked forward to going to school in a ONE-horse open sleigh. John would bundle them up in a fur lap robe and don his buffalo fur coat and away they would go.
They were members of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, also located at Hyacinth, where their children received their sacraments and spiritual training.
John died at 43 years of age on JUNE 30, 1933. Barbara died at 48 years of age on JULY 1, 1941. They were survived by thirteen of their children.
The Descendants of Heinrich & Kunigunde (DOERFLER) BEFORT
Our forefathers who left Germany to go to
RUSSIA to make a better life for themselves
and their children. It is dedicated as well to
our brave forefathers who left RUSSIA to make
a better life for themselves and their children
in the United States. It is especially dedicated to those of our relatives who stayed in RUSSIA and endured over fifty years exiled in prison work camps for their crime of being of German ancestry.
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Many books and papers about other Volga German families and their descendants, have been published over the last fifty years, and are treasured documents for not only the serious researcher, but also those with a passing interest as well. This book is ONE the descendants of ONE BEFORT family that left Germany to go to RUSSIA
While every effort has been made in this compilation to provide accurate and complete information, endeavors to acquire additional
facts and details from both the United States and European sources continue. Any omission of person (s), places, or events that deserve inclusion be rein is purely unintentional.
The founders of MUNJOR were part of the largest single expedition of Unsere Leute to emigrate from RUSSIA. Under the leadership of Balthazar Braggart 108 families left saratov by train on JULY 8, 1876. Their body consisted of departures from Herzog, OBERMONJOU, Louis, Graf, Wittman, Marienthal, Schoenchen, and Gattung. The group
separated at Eydtkunen, with the MUNJOR founders among those electing to sail via the Hamburg-American line. Arriving in New York,
they then proceeded by train to Herzog. After remaining there several days, they repaired a site on Big Creek a short distance north of the present village of MUNJOR. Some TWO months later they moved to the present town site in Section 25, Township 14, Range 18 in Wheatland Township.
On NOVEMBER 1, 1876 an additional group came to MUNJOR. They had emigrated from Saratov on SEPTEMBER 30 and sailed from
Hamburg on the "Gellert" of the Hamburg of the Hamburg-American line.
More about Conrad Befort:
Burial: Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas
Immigration: October 26, Arrived in New York on SS GELLERT from Hamburg and Havre.
Notes for Anna Margaretha Kranewitter:
Burial: Munjor, Ellis County, And Kansas
Immigration: October 26, 1876, Arrived in New York on SS GELLERT from Hamburg and Havre.
Children of Conrad and Anna Krannewitter are: Paulina Befort, BORN Oct. 01, 1876, Obermunjour, Russia; DIED March 17, 1914. Peter Befort, BORN 1878, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Clara Befort, BORN July 11, 1880, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED December 30, 1918, Ness City, Ness County, Kansas. Anna Befort, BORN Abt. 1881; MARRIED Adam Brull, October 01, 1901, BORN Abt. 1880. Margaret Befort, BORN January 08, 1885, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED August 27, 1978, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Carl Befort, BORN September 13, 1886, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED August 13, 1961. Catherine Befort, BORN Abt. 1887, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas, MARRIED Philip Zimmerman, BORN 1883; DIED November 01, 1966. John C. Befort, BORN February 18, 1890, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED June 30, 1933. Caroline Befort, BORN Abt. 1892, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Agnes Befort, BORN Abt. 1893, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; MARRIED Oscar Anderson Casper Befort, BORN Abt. 1895, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED infancy. George Befort, BORN September 06, 1896, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 12, 1897, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas.
More about George Befort:
Burial: Munjor, Kansas.
Anton Befort, was born February 02, 1865 in Obermunjour, Russia, and died February 26, 1929 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. He married Anna Catherine Rupp in Russia, daughter of Johannes Rupp and Catharina Befort. She was born September 29, 1853 in Russia, and died August 21, 1937 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas.
Notes for Anton Befort: Also known as "Linke"
More about Anton Befort:
Burial: Munjor, Kansas
Departed: 1876, Obermunjour, Russia
Immigration: October 26, 1876, arrived in New York on SS GELLERT from Hamburg and Havre.
Occupation: 1880, Section Hand on Union Pacific Railroad
More about Anna Catherine Rupp:
Burial: Munjor, Kansas
Departed: 1876, Obermunjour, Russia
Immigration: October 26, 1876, Arrived in New York on SS GELLERT from Hamburg and Havre.
Children of Anton Befort and Anna Rupp are: Catherine Befort, BORN Bef. 1875; DIED Bef. 1875; DIED Bef. 1880. Rosa Befort, BORN October 24, 1875, Obermunjour, Russia; DIED April 14, 1954, Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas. Alexander A. Befort, BORN May 10, 1878, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED April 09, 1964, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Ludwig Befort, BORN July 16, 1880, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED March 23, 1948. Franz Befort, BORN 1882, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED Schoenchen, Ellis County, Kansas. Conrad Befort, BORN August 08, 1886, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED June 09, 1954. John A. Befort, BORN September 03, 1888, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED January 08, 1958. Paulina Befort, BORN April 23, 1892, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED February 29, 1968 Michael Befort, BORN June 20, 1892, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED August 17, 1962. Catherine A. Befort, BORN December 11, 1894, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED June 02, 1993, St. John's Nursing Home, Hays, Kansas. Adelheid Befort, BORN 1898, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas, MARRIED Joseph Urban; BORN July 30, 1893; DIED February 12, 1971. Joseph Befort was born June 28, 1857 in Obermonjou, Russia, and died August 10, 1923 in Kansas City, Kansas. He married Gertrude Rohr January 23, 1883 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas, daughter of Matthias Rohr and Magdalena Denning. She was born August 15, 1864 in Mariental (Tankoshurovka), Russia and died March 24, 1945 in Hays, Ellis County, Kansas.
More about Joseph Befort:
Burial: Munjor, Ellis County, And Kansas.
Immigration: July 17, 1878, Arrived in New York on SS DONAU from Bremen. Occupation: 1880, Servant
More about Getrude Rohr:
Burial: Munjor, Kansas
Departed: 1876, Mariental, Russia
Children of Joseph Befort and Gertrude Rohr are: Elizabeth Befort, BORN January 01, 1884, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED April 11, 1885, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Anna BORN Befort, BORN August 20, 1886, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 02, 1967, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Maria Befort, BORN August 18, 1888, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED February 13, 1975, Brighton, Colorado. Rosa Befort, BORN September 30, 1890, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED January 30, 1926, Hyacinth, Ellis County, Kansas Margaret Befort, BORN December 16, 1892, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED February 21, 1986, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Pauline Befort, BORN January 13, 1895, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED 1899, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Catherine Philomena Befort, BORN February 04, 1896, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 15, 1982, Denver, Colorado; MARRIED Peter R. Denning, October 11, 1921; BORN July 03, 1898; DIED July 18, 1958. Barbara Befort, BORN November 13, 1899, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Fidelis J. Befort, BORN December 21, 1900, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED December 14, 1985, St. Anthony's Hospital, Hays, Kansas. Jacob J. Befort, BORN September 09, 1903, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 09, 1937, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Adeline Befort, BORN September 21, 1905, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 26, 1975, Denver, Denver County, Colorado. Elizabeth Befort was born August 06, 1860 in Obermunjour, Russia, and died March 10, 1919 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. She married Christial Hertel Aft. June 1880 in Obermunjour, Russia, son of Martin Hertel and Catherine Hatzenton. He was born May 31, 1855 in Obermunjour, Russia, and died January 07, 1939 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas.
More about Elizabeth Befort:
Burial: Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas
Departed: 1876, from Obermunjour, Russia
Immigration: July 17, 1878, Arrived in New York on SS DONAU from Bremen.
Notes for Christian Hertel:
Burial: Munjor, Kansas Departed 1876, from Obermonjou, Russia
Children of Elizabeth Befort and Christian Hertel are: Paulina Hertel, BORN December 21, 1881, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED April 12, 1885, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas
More about Paulina Hertel:
Burial: Munjor, Kansas
Catherine Hertel, BORN May 16, 1883, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED August 27, 1968, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Barbara Hertel, BORN September 03, 1885, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED October 26, 1971, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. John Hertel, BORN April 30, 1887, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 22, 1975, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Anna Hertel, BORN April 30, 1889, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED January 1949, Lacrosse, Rush County, Kansas. Peter Christian Hertel, BORN December 17, 1890, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED May 28, 1963, Victoria, Ellis County, Kansas. Rose Hertel, BORN November 30, 1892, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED January 01, 1958, Victoria, Ellis County, Kansas. Maria Hertel, BORN Abt. 1895; DIED infancy Hilarius Hertel, BORN March 02, 1896, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED December 05, 1989; MARRIED Mathilda Rohr, May 20, 1929, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; BORN October 06, 1902, Antonio, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 04, 1997, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Caper Hertel, BORN June 11, 1898, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED November 21, 1898, Ellis County, Kansas. More about Casper Hertel: Burial: Munjor, Kansas. Anna Catherine Hertel, BORN February 16, 1900, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED April 30, 1979, LaCrosse, Rush County, Kansas. Philomena Hertel, BORN December 09, 1903, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED May 16, 1975, Grinnell, Kansas.
More about Alexander Befort:
Burial: Munjor, Kansas.
Children of Alexander Befort and Susanna Gross are: Anna Befort, BORN April 29, 1891, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED October 16, 1918, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Agnes Befort, BORN July 18, 1895, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansa; DIED February 24, 1940, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Paul Befort, BORN February 04, 1898, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; MARRIED Stella Duncan., June 09, 1928; BORN August 09, 1904. Adeline Befort, BORN April 23, 1900, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 09, 1952, Garden City, Finney County, Kansas. Raymond Befort, BORN January 22, 1903, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; MARRIED Olive K. Kinnanan; BORN December 10, 1902. Rosa Befort, BORN May 11, 1906, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED October 02, 1980, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Margaret Befort, BORN February 23, 1908, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED May 19, 1951; MARRIED Hironymus Brungardt, November 26, 1928, Pfeifer, Ellis County, Kansas, BORN July 30, 1903; DIED June 04, 1968, Pfeifer, Ellis County, Kansas. Edgar Befort, BORN July 19, 1913, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 1983, Denver, Denver County, Colorado; MARRIED Martha J. Faley; BORN December 30, 1923. Albina Befort, BORN June 28, 1904, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED May 11, 1972. Amalia Befort was born August 16, 1866 in Obermunjour, Russia, and died September 17, 1936 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas.
More about Andreas Befort
Immigration: July 17, 1878; Arrived in New York on SS Donau from Bremen.
Maria Befort was born 1826. She married Michael Dechant, son of Johannes Dechant and Dorotea Heil. He was born 1822 in Obermonjou, Russia.
Child of Maria Befort and Michael Dechant is: Joseph Dechant, BORN April 15, 1863; DIED January 24, 1957.
Generation No. 4
Anna Maria Hertel was born September 17, 1841 in Katherinenstadt, Russia, and died March 04, 1907 in Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas. She married Michael Weilert, son of Johann Weilert and Maria Dorzweiler. He was born March 06, 1839 in Katherinensadt, Russia and died March 19, 1911 in Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas.
More about Anna Maria Hertel
Immigration: July 17, 1878, Arrived in New York on SS Lessing from Hamburg & Have.
More about Michael Weilert
Immigration: July 17, 1878, arrived in New York on SS Lessing from Hamburg & Have
Children of Anna Hertel and Michael Weilert are: Otillia Weilert, BORN June 05, 1862, Katherinenstadt, Russia; DIED April 19, 1930, Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas Karl Weilert BORN May 14, 1867, Katherinenstadt, Russia; DIED August 08, 1954, Lebanon, Missouri. Sophia Weilert, BORN 1870, Katherinenstadt, Russia; DIED October 06, 1880, Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas.
More about Sophia Weilert:
Immigration: July 17, 1878, Arrived in New York on SS Lessing from Hamburg & Havre. Elizabetha Weilert, BORN February 13, 1872, Russia; DIED April 11, 1951. Melchoir Weilert, BORN September 09, 1874; DIED 1937. Anna Weilert, BORN 1875; DIED 1880
More about Anna Weilert:
Immigration: July 17, 1878, Arrived in New York on SS Lessing from Hamburg & Havre.
Margaretha Weilert, BORN October 19, 1876, Russia; DIED childhood
More about Margaretha Weilert:
Immigration: July 17, 1878, Arrived in New York on SS Lessing from Hamburg & Havre.
Johannes Weilert, BORN February 02, 1879, Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED October 20, 1962. Sophia Weilert, BORN February 02, 1881, Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas DIED February 09, 1911, Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas Josephine Weilert, BORN April 15, 1883, Catherine, Ellis county, Kansas; DIED April 13, 1953, Kansas. John Joseph Weilert was born July 18, 1917. He married Anna Mae Robinson May 14, 1940. She was born September 11, 1919.
Children of John Weilert and Anna Robinson are:
Richard Francis Weilert, BORN March 26, 1941.John Michael Weilert, BORN January 28, 1944.Steven Lynn Weilert, BORN June 10, 1947; MARRIED Marlene K. Johnson, August 03, 1968; BORN November 11, 1947.David Ann Weilert, BORN June 23, 1950.Martha Sue Weilert, BORN February 03, 1952.Barbara Ann Weilert, BORN May 21, 1954.Daniel Lee Weilert, December 1955.Karen Kay Weilert, March 04, 1959.Sharon Gay Weilert, March 04, 1959.Timothy Dean Weilert, BORN September 01, 1961.Victor Francis Weilert was born April 02, 1928 in Ness City, Ness County, Kansas. He married Catherine Wohler July 30, 1955. She was born January 21, 1932.
Children of Victor Weilert and Catherine Wohler are: Elaine Marie Weilert, BORN June 07, 1957.Allan Michael Weilert, BORN April 29, 1960.Paul Francis Weilert, BORN June 09, 1964.Vicki Michele Weilert, BORN October 22, 1967.Angela R. Schmidt was born January 04, 1903 in Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas, and died October 10, 1972 in Norton, Kansas. She married Aloysius Rohr June 08, 1930 in Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas, son of John Rohr and Katherine Bittle. He was born October 28, 1898 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas, and died August 04, 1962 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas.
Children of Angela Schmidt and Aloysius Rohr are: Lila Fay Rohr, BORN November 24, 1932, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED October 31, 1961; MARRIED (1) Charles Sloan, November 23, 1949, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas ; BORN May 1927, Elkhart, Kansas; MARRIED (2) Laverne Lessor, January 1959.Twila May Rohr, BORN November 24, 1932, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas; MARRIED Milfred Landauer, August 28, 1950, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas; BORN July 14, 1928, Ellis, Ellis County, Kansas. Edward John Rohr, BORN April 16, 1936, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas.Florina Schmidt was born July 03, 1909. She married (1) Eugene Daniel Mermis, son of Andreas Mermis and Anna Sander. He was born January 25, 1908, and died February 04, 1935. She married (2) Frederick David Froelich October 01, 1950, son of Franz Froelich and Christina Denning. He was born February 12, 1908, and died October 02, 1973.
Child of FLorina Schmidt and Eugene Mermis is:
Harriet Eugenia Mermis, MARRIED Wilfred Roberts. Elmer Weltz was born August 12, 1917, in Hays, Ellis County, Kansas, and died June 08, 1989. He married Charlotte Hauser May 17, 1937 in Hays, Ellis County, Kansas, and died July 03, 1988 in St. Anthony's Hospital, Hays, and Kansas.
Children of Elmer Wertz and Charlotte Hauser are: Kenneth WeltzJudith WeltzKatherine Weltz, MARRIED? Carr. Lawrence Welts, BORN December 20, 1937; DIED January 07, 1938.Mary Margaret Lambrecht was born May 15, 1898. She married Alphonse Leiker, son of Pius Leiker and Margaretha Weber. He was born May 18, 1898, and died January 03, 1965 in Victoria, Ellis County, Kansas.
Children of Mary Lambrecht and Alphonse Leiker are:
Isabella Leiker, BORN March 06, 1920; MARRIED Bernard Thomas; BORN January 17, 1914.Margaret Marcella Leiker, BORN September 13, 1921; MARRIED Jr Paul Sidney Beck. Alexander Leiker was born August 03, 1903 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas, and died January 02, 1953 in Rush County Memorial Hospital, Lacrosse, Kansas. He married Christina Enslinger November 10, 1925 in Antonio, Ellis County, Kansas, daughter of Peter Enslinger and Anna Miller. She was born July 04, 1907 in Liebenthal, Rush County, Kansas, and died November 16, 1988 in Great Bend, Barton County, Kansas.
Notes for Alexander Leiker:
Alex had a severely damaged heart with leakage of the valves causing the heart to enlarge to double its normal size. He had rheumatic fever at the age of 14. Alex worked as a farmer, carpenter, and a sheet metal man. He was a quality carpenter as he was quiet, patient and articulate in whatever he started The way he taught his sons how to saw wood reflected his approach to life and people in general. He said that you let the saw ride without effort and never force it. He related that if one forces something, it just gets much harder to accomplish. He did not have taste for disciplining his children and would rarely become irritated or angry. When he had to discipline he did it only half-hearted It was obvious that he had his Mother's compassion and patience. The year prior to his death, he built a new home for the family and did all the finished carpentry work himself. He had to rest for extended periods of time but then would proceed to work again. After Christmas he developed pneumonia and died January 3, 1953 of a combination of pneumonia, congestive heart failure and lung cancer.
More about Alexander Leiker:
Burial: January 10, 1953, Liebenthal, Kansas
Cause of death: Congestive Heart Failure damaged by Rheumatic Fever at age 14.
Medical Information: Developed Lung Cancer shortly before his death. He was a smoker of cigarettes.
Notes for Christina Enslinger: Christina was a farmer, creamery and feed story operator, an avid gardener, ironed clothes for a living and her last employment was as a housekeeper for St. Anthony's Hospital until she retired Her husband was an invalid due to a severe heart condition and so she primarily had to be the provider and care giver. She was only 4' 10" tall and was called "Christinya." She had ten children of which the first was still-born after a very difficult birth. She almost single-handed raised nine children, made sure they all went to High school and they never went hungry. She made sure they had proper clothing even if she had to sew most of the items herself. They were never without proper shelter or medical care. She routinely would butcher 50 chickens, with the assistance of the children, in one day and would sell them to a local hospital. Her garden was large with a wide assortment of vegetables and for many years grew three acres of potatoes. She canned anything not consumed immediately including beef and pork. A typical Saturday meant baking a dozen pies. Bread was baked at least every day. She baked many wedding cakes. On Mondays she washed and it was no uncommon for her to wash as many as twenty loads plus loads of wash and iron up to forty shirts since she had six sons and a husband Until 1952 she cooked on a kerosene stove, had no refrigerator, and used gas iron to iron clothing. Her washing machine was a gas powered machine.
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Burial: November 1988, Buried in St. Joseph Ce in Liebenthal, Kansas.
Cause of death: CHFMedical
Information: Developed dementia a few years prior to death, probably caused by TIAs causing O.BORNS. Katherine Boes was born December 08, 1852 in Obermonjou, Russia and died August 02, 1937 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. She married Johann Michael Leiker January 20, 1870 in Obermonjou, Russia and died August o2, 1937 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. She married Johann Michael Leiker January 20, 1870 in Obermonjou, Russia son of Peter Leiker and Catherine Engel. He was born April 02, 1849 in Obermonjou, Russia, and died June 27, 1932 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas.
More about Katherine Boes:
Burial: Munjor, Kansas
Departed: July 08, 1876, Obermonjou, Russia
Immigration: August 03, 1876, Arrived in New York on SS Suevia from Hamburg & Havre.
Notes for Johann Michael Leiker: Left Pannentzka, Russland at the age of 25. Left Saratov, Russia on July 8, 1876. The 1850 census indicated he was 3 months old and that his name was Johann Michael but as an adult he was always known as Michael or Mische in German.
More about Johann Michael Leiker:
Burial: St. Francis Cemetery Munjor, Kansas Departed: July 08, 1876, Obermonjou, Russia
Immigration: August 03, 1876, arrived in New York on SS SUEVIA from Hamburg & Havre
Notes for Johann Michael Leiker: Left Pannentzka, Russland at the age of 25. Left Saratov, Russia on July 8, 1876. The 1850 census indicated he was 3 months old and his name was Johann Michael but as an adult he was always known as Michael or Mische in German.
More about Johann Michael Leiker:
Burial: St. Francis Cemetery Munjor, Kansas
Departed: July 08, 1876, Obermonjou, Russia
Immigration: August 03, 1876 Arrived in New York on SS SUEVIA from Hamburg & Havre
Children of Katherine Boes and Johann Leiker are:
Martin Leiker, BORN Bef. 1873; DIED Bef. 1873, infancy Marianne Leiker, BORN January 20, 1873, Obermonjou, Russia; DIED March 01, 1965, Walker, Ellis County, Kansas Anton BORN Leiker, BORN April 09, 1875, Obermonjou, Russia; DIED November 22, 1964, Kansas Good Samaritan Center, Ellis, Ellis County, Kansas Barbara Leiker, BORN August 14, 1877, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas DIED April 18, 1976, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas Clara Leiker, BORN April 02, 1879, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED November 13, 1962, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas Agatha Leiker, BORN February 19, 1881, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED August 01, 1975, Great Bend, Barton County, Kansas. John BORN Leiker, BORN October 02, 1882, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED August 08, 1974, Ellis county, Kansas 67601 Katherine BORN Leiker, BORN January 12, 1886, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED January 16, 1971, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas Alex BORN Leiker, BORN June 11, 1888, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED April 18, 1970, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas Pauline Leiker, BORN October 08, 1892, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 21, 1894, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas
More about Pauline Leiker:
Burial: Munjor, Kansas
Peter BORN Leikr; BORN April 01, 1896, Munjor, Kansas; DIED July 29, 1962, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Heinrich Ferdinand Schumacher was born Jun 1842 in Wittman, Russia, and died September 03, 1920. He married (1) Anna Miller in Wittman, Russia. She was born 1850 in Wittman, Russia, and died Aft. June 15, 1875 in Wittman, Russia. He married (2) Anna Catherine Stark in Wittman, Russia. She was born May 05, 1850, and died May 09, 1927.
More about Heinrich Ferdinand Schumacher:
Departed: 1876; Came on SS SUEVIA
Immigration: August 03, 1976, Arrived in New York on the SS SUEVIA from Hamburg and Havre.
More about Anna Miller
Burial: Wittman, Russia
Immigration: August 03, 1876, Arrived in New York on the SS SUEVIA from Hamburg & Havre.
More about Anna Catherine Stark:
Departed: 1876, Wittman Russia
Immigration: August 03, 1876, Arrived in New York on SS SUEVIA from Hamburg & Havre
Children of Heinrich Schumacher and Anna Miller are: Alexander Schumacher BORN June 15, 1875; DIED December 29, 1938. Paulina Schumacher, BORN October 04, 1868, Wittman (Solothurh), Russia; DIED December 07, 1954, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas
Children of Heinrich Schumacher and Anna Stark are:
Heinrich Schumacher, BORN August 04, 1876. Peter Schumacher, BORN November 04, 1877; DIED Bef. 1880 Agnes Schumacher BORN September 21, 1879; DIED November 08, 1951. Anton Schumacher, BORN July 22, 1881. ANTON BEFORT was born February 02, 1856 in Obermonjou, Russia, and died February 26, 1929 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. He married ANNA CATHERINE RUPP in Russia, daughter of JOHANNES RUPP and CATHARINA BEFORT. She was born September 29, 1853 in Russia, and died August 21, 1937 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas.
Notes for ANTON BEFORT Also known as "Linke"
More about ANTON BEFORT
Burial: Munjor, Kansas
Departed: 1876, Obermonjou, Russia
Immigration: October 26, 1876, arrived in New York on SS GELLERT from Hamburg and Havre.
Children of ANTON BEFORT and ANNA RUPP are: Catherine Befort BORN Bef. 1875; DIED BEF. 1880. Rosa Befort BORN October 24, 1875, Obermonjou, Russia; DIED April 14, 1954, Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas. Alexander A. Befort, BORN May 10, 1878, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas DIED April 09, 1964, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Ludwin Befort, BORN July 16, 1880, Munjor, Kansas; DIED March 23, 1948. Franz Befort, BORN 1882, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED Schoenchen, Ellis County, Kansas Conrad Befort, BORN August 08, 1886, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED June 09, 1954. John A. Befort, BORN September 03, 1888, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED January 08, 1958. Paulina Befort BORN April 23, 1892, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas, DIED February 29, 1968. Michael Befort, BORN June 20, 1892, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED August 17, 1962. Catherine A. Befort, BORN December 11, 1894, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED June 02, 1993, St. John's Nursing Home, Hays, Kansas Adelheid Befort BORN 1898, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; MARRIED Joseph Urban; BORN July 30, 1893, DIED February 12, 1971. JOSEPH BEFORT
Burial: Munjor, Ellis County, And Kansas
Immigration: July 17, 1878, Arrived in New York on SS DONAU from Bremen.
Occupation: 1880, Servant
More about GERTRUDE ROHR:
Burial: Munjor, Kansas
Departed: 1876, Marienthal, Russia
Children of JOSEPH BEFORT AND GERTRUDE ROHR are:
Elizabeth Befort, BORN January 01, 1884, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED April 11, 1885, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Anna BORN Befort, BORN August 20, 1886, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas DIED July 02, 1967, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Maria Befort, BORN August 18, 1888, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED February 13, 1975, Brighton, Colorado. Rosa Befort, BORN September 30, 1890, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas, DIED January 30, 1926, Hyacinth, Ellis County, Kansas. Margaret Befort BORN December 16, 1892, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas DIED February 21, 1986, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Pauline Befort BORN January 13, 1895, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED 1899, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Catherine Philomena Befort, BORN February 04, 1896, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 15, 1982, Denver, Colorado; MARRIED Peter R. Denning October 11, 1921; BORN July 03, 1898; DIED July 18, 1958. Barbara Befort, BORN November 13, 1899, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Fidelis J. Befort, BORN December 21, 1900, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED December 14, 1985, St. Anthony's Hospital, Hays, Kansas. Jacob J. Befort, BORN September 09, 1903, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 09, 1937, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Adeline Befort, BORN September 21, 1905, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 26, 1975, Denver, Denver, County, Colorado. ELIZABETH BEFORT was born August 06, 1860 in Obermonjou, Russia, and died March 10, 1919 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. She married CHRISTIAN HERTEL Aft. June 1880 in Obermonjou, Russia, son of MARTIN HERTEL AND CATHERINE HATZENTON. He was born May 31, 1855 in Obermonjou, Russia, and died January 07, 1939 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas.
More about ELIZABETH BEFORT
Burial: Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas
Departed: 1876, from Obermonjou, Russia
Immigration: July 17, 1878, Arrived in New York on SS DONAU from Bremen.
Notes for CHRISTIAN HERTEL Left Saratov, Russia on September 18-30, 1876 and arrived in Munjor, Kansas on November 1, 1876.
More about CHRISTIAN HERTEL
Burial: Munjor, Kansas
Departed: 1876, from Obermonjou, Russia
Children of Elizabeth Befort and Christian Hertel are: Pauline Hertel, BORN December 21, 1881, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas, DIED April 12, 1885, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas
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Burial: Munjor, Kansas
Catherine Hertel, BORN May 16, 1883, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED August 27, 1968, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Barbara Hertel, BORN September 03, 1885, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED October 26, 1971, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. John Hertel, BORN April 30, 1887, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 22, 1975, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Anna Hertel, BORN April 30, 1889, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED January 1949, Lacrosse, Rush County, Kansas. Peter Christian Hertel, BORN December 17, 1890, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED May 28, 1963, Victoria, Ellis County, Kansas Rose Hertel, BORN November 30, 1892, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED January 01, 1958, Victoria, Ellis County, Kansas. Maria Hertel, BORN Abt. 1895; DIED infancy. Hilarius Hertel, BORN March 02, 1986, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED December 05, 1989; MARRIED Matilda Rohr, May 20, 1929, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; BORN October 06, 1902, Antonino, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 04, 1997, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Casper Hertel, BORN June 11, 1898, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas, DIED November 21, 1898, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas
More about Casper Hertel:
Burial: Munjor, Kansas
Anna Catherine Hertel BORN February 16, 1900, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED April 30, 1979, Lacrosse, Rush County, Kansas Philomena Hertel, BORN December 09, 1903, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED May 16, 1975, Grinnell, Kansas. Anna Maria Hertel was born September 17, 1941 in Katherinenstadt, Russia and died March 04, 1907 in Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas. She married Michael Weilert, son of Michael Weilert and Maria Dorzweiler. He was born March 06, 1880, Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas.
More about Anna Maria Hertel and Michael Weilert are:
Otillia Weilert, BORN June 05. 1862, Katherinstadt, Russia; DIED April 19, 1930, Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas, Karl Weilert, BORN May 14, 1867, Katherinstadt, Russia; DIED August 08, 1954; Lebanon, Missouri. Sophia Weilert, BORN 1870, Katherinstadt, Russia; DIED October 06, 1880, Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas.
More about Sophia Weilert:
Immigration: July 17, 1878, Arrived in New York on SS LESSING from Hamburg and Havre.
Elizabetha Weilert, BORN February 13, 1872, Russia; DIED April 11, 1951. Melchoir Weilert, BORN September 09, 1874; DIED 1937. Anna Weilert, BORN 1875; DIED 1880.
More about Anna Weilert:
Immigration: July 17, 1878, Arrived in New York on SS LESSING from Hamburg and Havre.
Margaretha Weilert, BORN October 19, 1876; Russia; DIED childhood
More about Margaretha Weilert:
Immigration: July 17, 1878, Arrived in New York on SS LESSING from Hamburg and Havre.
Johannes Weilert, BORN February 02, 1879, Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED October 20, 1962. Sophia Weilert, BORN February 02, 1881, Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED February 09, 1911, Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas. Josephine Weilert, BORN April 15, 1883, Catherine, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED April 13, 1953, Kansas. Katherine Boes was born December 08, 1852 in Obermunjour, Russia, and died August 02, 1937 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. She married JOHANN MICHAEL LEIKER January 20, 1870 in Obermunjour, Russia, son of PETER LEIKER and CATHERINE ENGEL. He was born April 02, 1849 in Obermonjou, Russia, and died June 27, 1932 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Jakob Boos, he was born in Obermonjou, Russia in 1838. He died in FeB 21, 1923 in Ness City, Kansas. He had two brothers. Msgr. Alexander Boos born 1823. He was ordained in Saratov, Russia. He is buried in Russia. He also had a brother named Johannes. He is also buried in Ness City Kansas. My Great Grandfather married Helen Fueller, she was born in 1839. She died Oct. 8, 1911 and is buried in Munjor, Kansas. They had five children, the first was Agnes, and she was born 1862. She married John Dechant (he died in June '36) She died Jan. 10, 1928 and is buried in Russia. The next was Alexanderine; she was born in 1865 in Obermonjou, Russia. She married Martin Engel in Russia. She died Aug. 5, 1932.Next, Anna Mary, she married a man with the last name of Ludwig. She died in Russia. Along came Pauline, September 8, 1879. She married Jacob Seib (he was born June 16, 1876 and died FeB 17, 1949) She died July 7, 1966 in Ness City, Kansas. And then my Grandfather Petrus Jacob was born April 10, 1882 in Obermonjou, Russia. He married my Grandmother Katharina Gabel (born June 22, 1882) In Obermonjou, Russia January 23, 1901.They Emigrated to Canada together and had 10 children. Alexander born Nov 21, 1901 and died February 12, 1974. Emelia January 1, 1904 and died February 21, 1905. Jacob born January 1, 1906 and died January 10, 1919. Petrus born Aug. 15, 1908 and died July 7, 1911. Augustine born March 15, 1912 and died Oct. 22, 1979. Petrus (Pete) June 29, 1914 and died Mar. 3, 1976. Johannes born Sept. 21, 1916 and died Dec. 28, 1966. Cornelius born May 12, 1919 and died Dec. 1997. Wilhelm (my father) born Aug. 5, 1921, he is still with us. The last living child of this family. And, Helena born Aug. 25, 1923 and died July 7, 1928.My cousin Rose Lynde wrote a book about our family called "Descent from the Volga". I am very thankful to have it. As this is where this information has come from
More about KATHERINE BOES:
Burial: Munjor, Kansas
Departed: July 08, 1876, Obermunjour, Russia
Immigration: August 03, 1876, arrived in New York on SS SUEVIA from Hamburg and Havre
Notes for JOHANN MICHAEL LEIKER: Left Pannentzka, Russland at the age of 25. Left Saratov, Russia on July 8, 1876. The 1850 Census indicates he was 3 months old and that his name was Johann Michael but as an adult he was always known as Michael or Mische in German.
More about JOHANN MICHAEL LEIKER:
Burial: St. Francis Cemetery, Munjor, Kansas
Departed: July 08, 1876, Obermonjou, Russia
Immigration: August 03, 1876, Arrived in New York on SS SUEVIA from Hamburg and Havre
Children of Katherine Boes and Johann Leiker are:
Marin Leiker, BORN Bef. 1873, infancy Marianne Leiker, BORN January 20, 1873, Obermunjour, Russia; DIED March 01, 1965, Walker, Ellis County, Kansas. Anton BORN Leiker, BORN April 09, 1875, Obermunjour, Russia; DIED November 22, 1964, Kansas Good Samaritan Center, Ellis, Ellis County, Kansas. Barbara Leiker, BORN August 14, 1877, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED April 18, 1976, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Clara Leiker, BORN April 02, 1879, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED November 13, 1962, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Agatha Leiker, BORN February 19, 1881, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED August 01, 1975, Great Bend, Barton County, Kansas. John BORN Leiker, BORN October 02, 1882, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED August 08, 1974, Ellis County, Kansas. Katherine BORN Leiker, BORN January 12, 1886, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED January 16, 1971, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Alex BORN Leiker, BORN June 11, 1888, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED April 18, 1970, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Paulina Leiker, BORN October 08, 1892, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas, DIED July 21, 1894, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas.
More about Paulina Leiker:
Burial: Munjor, Kansas
Peter BORN Leiker, BORN April 01, 1896, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED July 21, 1894, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Heinrich
Ferdinand Schumacher: Departed: 1876 Came on SS SUEVIA
Immigration: August 03, 1876, Arrived In New York on the SS SUEVIA from Hamburg and Havre.
More about Anna Miller:
Burial: Wittman, Russia
Immigration: August 03, 1876, Arrived In New York on the SS SUEVIA from Hamburg and Havre.
More about Anna Catherine Stark:
Departed: 1876, Wittman, Russia.
Immigration: August 03, 1876, arrived in New York on the SS SUEVIA from Hamburg and Havre
Children of Heinrich Schumacher and Anna Miller are:
Alexander Schumacher, BORN June 15, 1875; DIED December 29, 1938. Paulina Schumacher, BORN October 04, 1868, Wittman (Solothurn), Russia; DIED December 07, 1954, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas.
Children of Heinrich Schumacher and Anna Stark are: Heinrich Schumacher, BORN August 04, 1876. Agnes Schumacher, BORN September 21, 1879; DIED November 08, 1951. Anton Schumacher, BORN July 22, 1881. Carl Schumacher, BORN April 14, 1886; DIED March 29, 1966. Mary Elizabeth Schumacher, BORN February 21, 1889; DIED June 25, 1952. John Schumacher, BORN February 12, 1891, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED April 25, 1893, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas More about John Schumacher, BORN 1895; DIED April 15, 1899. Albert Schumacher, BORN April 09, 1899; DIED April 09, 1899.
JOHANN GEROG SCUMACHER was born September 08, 1846 in Wittman (Solothurn) Russia, and died November 10, 1927 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. He married Barbara Dechant Abt. 1872 in Wittman (Solothurn), Russia, daughter of ADAM DECHANT and MARIA RUDER. She was born March 25, 1850 in Obermunjour, Russia, and died May 28, 1921 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas.
More about JOHANN GEORG SCHUMACHER:
Burial: Munjor, Kansas
Departed: 1876,
Immigration: August 03, 1876, Arrived in New York on the SS SUEVIA from Hamburg and Havre
Children or JOHANN SCHUMACHER and BARBARA DECHANT are:
Maria Amalia Schumacher, BORN April 01, 1873, Wittman, Russia; DIED May 08, 1946, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Simon Schumacher, BORN July 1876; DIED 1876 on board ship coming to U.S. Agatha Schumacher, BORN August 18, 1876. Anthony Schumacher, BORN August 18, 1876, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas, DIED Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Mary Schumacher, BORN 1877; DIED infancy. Cecilia Schumacher, BORN October 20, 1880; DIED February 11, 1953. Anna Schumacher, BORN October 20, 1881; DIED January 24, 1960. Rosa Schumacher, BORN August 18, 1884, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED November 11, 1970, Ellis, Ellis County, Kansas. Paulina Schumacher, BORN November 10, 1887; DIED November 12, 1967 Katherine Schumacher, BORN June 21, 1889; DIED November 09, 1958.
ANTON SCHUMACHER, JR. was born January 05, 1856, in Wittman (Solothurn), Russia, and died May 23, 1930 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. He married (1) AGNES LEIKER 1880 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas, daughter of JACOB LEIKER and ANNA RUPP. She was born September 10, 1863 in Obermunjour, Russia, and died July 14, 1906 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. He married (2) ANNA MARIA KUHN May 26, 1903. She was born December 14, 1884.
More about ANTON SCHUMACHER, JR.
Departed: 1876, Wittman, Russia
Immigration: August 03, 1876, Arrived in New York on the SS SUEVIA from Hamburg and Havre.
Immigration: August 03, 1876, Arrived in New York on the SS SUEVIA from Hamburg and Havre.
Children of ANTON SCHUMACHER AND AGNES LEIKER are: Rosa Schumacher, BORN October 1882, Munjor, and Ellis County, Kansas. Jacob Schumacher, born June 08, 1884, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED March 16, 1962, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Catherine Schumacher, BORN September 17, 1889, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED December 15, 1909. Anna Schumacher, BORN February 02, 1890, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED January 04, 1965. Margaret Schumacher, BORN June 1893, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas Adolph Schumacher, BORN May 18, 1894, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED April 14, 1979. Conrad Schumacher, BORN June 27, 1896, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED February 20, 1980. Mary R. Schumacher, BORN August 15, 1898, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED February 19, 1989, Salina, Saline County, Kansas. Celestina Schumacher, BORN February 24, 1902, Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas; DIED October 10, 1983, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas Albina Schumacher, BORN July 22, 1904; DIED October 13, 1985; MARRIED George Weber, October 17, 1928, Hays, Ellis County, Kansas; BORN January 01, 1905; DIED August 31, 1970.
Children of ANTON SCHUMACHER and ANNA KUHN are:
Celestine Schumacher, BORN 1905; DIED October 14, 1908, Pfeifer, Kansas. Adolph Schumacher, BORN December 14, 1908, Pfeifer, Kansas. JOHANNES SCHUMACHER was born December 08, 1858 in Wheatmond, Russia, and died September 03, 1933 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. He married ANNA MARIA DECHANT 1882 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas, daughter of JOHANN and MARIA DOERFLER. She was born December 08, 1862 in Obermunjour, Russia, and died August 06, 1933 in Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas.
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Immigration: August 03, 1876, Arrived in New York on the SS SUEVIA from Hamburg and Havre