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- 1905-1942 (Creation)
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0.40 Linear Feet; 2 small grey document cases
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Biographical history
1888 Born on January 29 in Livingston County, Illinois to August and Lydia (Slagel) Albrecht
1911 Married Christian J. Gunden on September 28, and had nine children. Christian went by Chris, and in later years, C. J.
1930 Moved to Goshen, Indiana with her family, where she became a member of College Mennonite Church
1961 Husband, Christian J. Gunden, died on December 18
1963 Died at age 75 on December 22 of pneumonia. Survived by nine children and 22 grandchildren. Buried in Violett Cemetery, Goshen, Indiana
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The collection includes a diary 1905-1907; Diary 1907-1909; Diary 1909-1910; and diary 1913-1915. Also included is a diary 1910-1912, a diary 1922-1925, and a variety of correspondence with people involved in mission activities. The diaries from 1905-10 were written when Agnes was single, and when she was between the age of 17 and 23, while living in Illinois. Her diaries tell of every day events in her life including weather, school work, funerals, visitors, church services in English and German and sermon texts, chores, anxiety over church dissensions, concern for starving in India, great interest in missions, a trip to Oregon, California, and Oklahoma, train ride over Rocky Mountains, and the Inauguration Day of President Taft. Taken from “A Guide to Mennonite Women’s Diaries (1840-1950), by Anne Yoder, Mennonite Quarterly Review, October 1996, page 488.
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Additional diary of 1913-15 deposited by Doris and Carl Metzler in 2007. Another diary, 1928-1932, deposited by Doris and Carl Metzler on November 3, 2010.
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flat
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Materials are open to the public.
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Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U. S. C. Copyright not owned by the Mennonite Church USA Archives.
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- English
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2010-00-00
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- English