The following article was taken by from the collection: Along The Way Permission given by John Wiens More stories from Along the Way by John Wiens: Two Mothers Lost in the Wilderness Building a Log Structure Shortest Church Service Ever Preamble THE STORY OF TWO MOTHERS She was only sixteen when he had asked her […]
Jacob Tiessen Story
My parents were Peter Jacob Tiessen, born in 1875 and Elizabeth Fast Tiessen, born in 1879, both in the Molotschna Colony. I was the youngest child. Father was first married to Anna Enns with whom he had six children, namely Peter who died in infancy, Anna, Jacob, Peter, Margaret and Elizabeth who died in infancy. […]
Story of Henry Penner
Story of Henry Penner (Born 1926 in Franzfeld, Russia) My parents, Henry and Anna Penner, lived in the village of Franzfeld, a neighbouring village of Nikolaifeld, in the Yazykovo Colony of Chortitza. These two villages shared a church and a school. The five villages in our area, named Yazykovo after a Count by the same […]
