Left - Katherine (Kroeker) Wiens;
Right - Sarah (Kroeker) Andersson;
Bottom - Justina Kroeker. The photo was probably taken in Colorado. The family moved to Texas after Justina passed at the age of seven. This would have been a portrait with the three daughters who were still at home.
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Katharina was born in Ukraine Russia and came to the U.S. as a young woman with groups of Mennonites who emigrated from the Ukraine to the midwest US. She and her husband moved to Nebraska in 1878. Later they moved to Colorado, where they lived for 5 years, then they moved to Richmond Texas with their three daughters and families.They had been part of a Mennonite community recently re-settled in the rural Galveston area.
She gave birth to ten children, six survived to adulthood.
She died from injuries sustained when their newly built home was demolished as a result of the Galveston hurricane of 1900. Her daughter Sarah Kroeker Andersson , then 18, wrote an account - "Texas Hurricane September 8, 1900" many years later. Sarah reported that her mother, being so proud of their home, had remarked that she could "live here forever" just a few days earlier.
Her husband re-married following the incident, and fathered two more children.
The "Mennonite Cemetery" burial site consists of the four burials in one grave. The older grave photo was taken in the 1960's before renovation and declaration of the site as an official historical site.
The current contributor has a copy on file if anyone is interested in reading her account.
My grandmother was there at the time, and was a year old.
Left - Katherine (Kroeker) Wiens;
Right - Sarah (Kroeker) Andersson;
Bottom - Justina Kroeker. The photo was probably taken in Colorado. The family moved to Texas after Justina passed at the age of seven. This would have been a portrait with the three daughters who were still at home.
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Katharina was born in Ukraine Russia and came to the U.S. as a young woman with groups of Mennonites who emigrated from the Ukraine to the midwest US. She and her husband moved to Nebraska in 1878. Later they moved to Colorado, where they lived for 5 years, then they moved to Richmond Texas with their three daughters and families.They had been part of a Mennonite community recently re-settled in the rural Galveston area.
She gave birth to ten children, six survived to adulthood.
She died from injuries sustained when their newly built home was demolished as a result of the Galveston hurricane of 1900. Her daughter Sarah Kroeker Andersson , then 18, wrote an account - "Texas Hurricane September 8, 1900" many years later. Sarah reported that her mother, being so proud of their home, had remarked that she could "live here forever" just a few days earlier.
Her husband re-married following the incident, and fathered two more children.
The "Mennonite Cemetery" burial site consists of the four burials in one grave. The older grave photo was taken in the 1960's before renovation and declaration of the site as an official historical site.
The current contributor has a copy on file if anyone is interested in reading her account.
My grandmother was there at the time, and was a year old.
Gravesite Details
Her name and the name of three other hurricane victims appear on one marker
Family Members
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Helena O "Lena" Kroeker Fast
1870–1966
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Johan "John" Kroeker
1874–1878
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Maria F "Marie" Kroeker Friesen
1877–1937
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Katharina "Katherine" Kroeker Wiens
1878–1946
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Bernhard O Kroeker
1880–1948
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Sarah "Mama Ngananga Buka" Kroeker Andersson
1882–1969
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Anna Ott Kroeker Friesen
1883–1962
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Elizabeth Kroeker
1885–1885
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Henry Ott Kroeker
1885–1958
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Cornelius Kroeker
1890–1890
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Justine Kroeker
1890–1897
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