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- 1892-1917 (Creation)
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Gerhard Epp married Katharina Janzen (186?-1944) in Russia in 1889. They came to Canada in 1893 with his mother Judith, and their two children, of which the youngest died en route. They were blessed with ten more children in Canada. Gerhard and Katharina remained in Rosenort (near Gretna now known as Rosetown) Manitoba until April of 1894 when they moved to Saskatchewan where they purchased a homestead west of Rosthern. On July 21, 1895 Gerhard Epp was elected as a minister into the Eigenheim Mennonite Church. Gerhard and Katharina, like his mother and father, both kept diaries.
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Volume 2432
7 Original Gerhard Epp diary. - Sept. 15 1892 - June 11 1909 .
8 Original Gerhard Epp diary, Dec. 25 1910 - Apr. 14 1917 (follows his July 1906 entry in his mother, Judith [Dyck] Epp's diary and precedes the Apr. 14 1917 entry in the Judith [Dyck] Epp diary). - 1910-1917.