Parents George Benzel & Annie Goble (Russia) (WDR)
Funeral services were held for John F. Benzel, 80, of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, Tuesday from the Philadelphia Congregational Church. The Rev. H. C. Haemmelmann officiated and interment was in the Ritzville Memorial cemetery.
Benzel died July 24, in a Scottsbluff hospital. He was born July 24, 1878 at Kolb, Rissia where he married C. Elizabeth Reiber in 1899. The came to the United States in 1913 and lived in Minatare Nebraska for a year before moving to Ritzville where he resided until 1957, when he returned to Scottsbluff.
Elizabeth passed away in 1931 and in the spring of 1932 he married Anna Miller Weber (a widow). She passed away in 1935. He married Anna Lesser on May 16, 1957 at Scottsbluff.
He is surived by his wife Anna; two daughters, Mrs. Nick Schafer and Mrs. Elmer Heimbigner, both of Ritzville; five sons, Fred Jr. of Ritzville, Carl of Harrington, Jake and Alex of Scottsbluff, Nebraska and Rheiny of Seattle; 12 grandchildren and either great-grandchildren.
Ritzville Journal Times July 31, 1958 gapwork90
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John F. Benzel his wife and 5 children arrived in Baltimore, Maryland on 21 Mar 1913 from Bremen, Germany on board the "SS Rhein," of the North German Loyd Line.
On May 13, 1767, 88 colonists of the Lutheran faith (four of these were born in Russia) arrived on land which had been set aside by the Office of Immigrant Affairs, 100 km to the southwest of the regional center of Saratov. They founded the colony of Peskovatka. This name was given by the Russian administration after the small stream along which the given colony was located. The colony is located in the Saratov gubernia, in the okrug (district) of the city of Atkarsk, on the hilly side (Bergseite) of the Volga River at a distance of 100 verts from Saratov and 100 from Atkarsk."
"The German name of the colony, Kolb, was derived from the surname of the first "Vorsteher" Andreas Kolb, from the county of Hessenburg. In all, 24 families and 8 bachelors arrived. Each family was allotted 75 rubles.
The single men did not receive money to establish a household, and for the early times (until they had families) lived as workers with the colonists of the colony."
Funeral services were held for John F. Benzel, 80, of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, Tuesday from the Philadelphia Congregational Church. The Rev. H. C. Haemmelmann officiated and interment was in the Ritzville Memorial cemetery.
Benzel died July 24, in a Scottsbluff hospital. He was born July 24, 1878 at Kolb, Rissia where he married C. Elizabeth Reiber in 1899. The came to the United States in 1913 and lived in Minatare Nebraska for a year before moving to Ritzville where he resided until 1957, when he returned to Scottsbluff.
Elizabeth passed away in 1931 and in the spring of 1932 he married Anna Miller Weber (a widow). She passed away in 1935. He married Anna Lesser on May 16, 1957 at Scottsbluff.
He is surived by his wife Anna; two daughters, Mrs. Nick Schafer and Mrs. Elmer Heimbigner, both of Ritzville; five sons, Fred Jr. of Ritzville, Carl of Harrington, Jake and Alex of Scottsbluff, Nebraska and Rheiny of Seattle; 12 grandchildren and either great-grandchildren.
Ritzville Journal Times July 31, 1958 gapwork90
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John F. Benzel his wife and 5 children arrived in Baltimore, Maryland on 21 Mar 1913 from Bremen, Germany on board the "SS Rhein," of the North German Loyd Line.
On May 13, 1767, 88 colonists of the Lutheran faith (four of these were born in Russia) arrived on land which had been set aside by the Office of Immigrant Affairs, 100 km to the southwest of the regional center of Saratov. They founded the colony of Peskovatka. This name was given by the Russian administration after the small stream along which the given colony was located. The colony is located in the Saratov gubernia, in the okrug (district) of the city of Atkarsk, on the hilly side (Bergseite) of the Volga River at a distance of 100 verts from Saratov and 100 from Atkarsk."
"The German name of the colony, Kolb, was derived from the surname of the first "Vorsteher" Andreas Kolb, from the county of Hessenburg. In all, 24 families and 8 bachelors arrived. Each family was allotted 75 rubles.
The single men did not receive money to establish a household, and for the early times (until they had families) lived as workers with the colonists of the colony."
Parents George Benzel & Annie Goble (Russia) (WDR)
Funeral services were held for John F. Benzel, 80, of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, Tuesday from the Philadelphia Congregational Church. The Rev. H. C. Haemmelmann officiated and interment was in the Ritzville Memorial cemetery.
Benzel died July 24, in a Scottsbluff hospital. He was born July 24, 1878 at Kolb, Rissia where he married C. Elizabeth Reiber in 1899. The came to the United States in 1913 and lived in Minatare Nebraska for a year before moving to Ritzville where he resided until 1957, when he returned to Scottsbluff.
Elizabeth passed away in 1931 and in the spring of 1932 he married Anna Miller Weber (a widow). She passed away in 1935. He married Anna Lesser on May 16, 1957 at Scottsbluff.
He is surived by his wife Anna; two daughters, Mrs. Nick Schafer and Mrs. Elmer Heimbigner, both of Ritzville; five sons, Fred Jr. of Ritzville, Carl of Harrington, Jake and Alex of Scottsbluff, Nebraska and Rheiny of Seattle; 12 grandchildren and either great-grandchildren.
Ritzville Journal Times July 31, 1958 gapwork90
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John F. Benzel his wife and 5 children arrived in Baltimore, Maryland on 21 Mar 1913 from Bremen, Germany on board the "SS Rhein," of the North German Loyd Line.
On May 13, 1767, 88 colonists of the Lutheran faith (four of these were born in Russia) arrived on land which had been set aside by the Office of Immigrant Affairs, 100 km to the southwest of the regional center of Saratov. They founded the colony of Peskovatka. This name was given by the Russian administration after the small stream along which the given colony was located. The colony is located in the Saratov gubernia, in the okrug (district) of the city of Atkarsk, on the hilly side (Bergseite) of the Volga River at a distance of 100 verts from Saratov and 100 from Atkarsk."
"The German name of the colony, Kolb, was derived from the surname of the first "Vorsteher" Andreas Kolb, from the county of Hessenburg. In all, 24 families and 8 bachelors arrived. Each family was allotted 75 rubles.
The single men did not receive money to establish a household, and for the early times (until they had families) lived as workers with the colonists of the colony."
Funeral services were held for John F. Benzel, 80, of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, Tuesday from the Philadelphia Congregational Church. The Rev. H. C. Haemmelmann officiated and interment was in the Ritzville Memorial cemetery.
Benzel died July 24, in a Scottsbluff hospital. He was born July 24, 1878 at Kolb, Rissia where he married C. Elizabeth Reiber in 1899. The came to the United States in 1913 and lived in Minatare Nebraska for a year before moving to Ritzville where he resided until 1957, when he returned to Scottsbluff.
Elizabeth passed away in 1931 and in the spring of 1932 he married Anna Miller Weber (a widow). She passed away in 1935. He married Anna Lesser on May 16, 1957 at Scottsbluff.
He is surived by his wife Anna; two daughters, Mrs. Nick Schafer and Mrs. Elmer Heimbigner, both of Ritzville; five sons, Fred Jr. of Ritzville, Carl of Harrington, Jake and Alex of Scottsbluff, Nebraska and Rheiny of Seattle; 12 grandchildren and either great-grandchildren.
Ritzville Journal Times July 31, 1958 gapwork90
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John F. Benzel his wife and 5 children arrived in Baltimore, Maryland on 21 Mar 1913 from Bremen, Germany on board the "SS Rhein," of the North German Loyd Line.
On May 13, 1767, 88 colonists of the Lutheran faith (four of these were born in Russia) arrived on land which had been set aside by the Office of Immigrant Affairs, 100 km to the southwest of the regional center of Saratov. They founded the colony of Peskovatka. This name was given by the Russian administration after the small stream along which the given colony was located. The colony is located in the Saratov gubernia, in the okrug (district) of the city of Atkarsk, on the hilly side (Bergseite) of the Volga River at a distance of 100 verts from Saratov and 100 from Atkarsk."
"The German name of the colony, Kolb, was derived from the surname of the first "Vorsteher" Andreas Kolb, from the county of Hessenburg. In all, 24 families and 8 bachelors arrived. Each family was allotted 75 rubles.
The single men did not receive money to establish a household, and for the early times (until they had families) lived as workers with the colonists of the colony."
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