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Peter B. Kroeker (1873-1955) immigrated to Canada with his parents when he was a year old. In 1898 he married Elizabeth L. Dueck (1879-1963). During the first year of marriage they lived in Blumenort, Manitoba. After this they moved to a farm in Clearspring, one and a half miles south of Blumenort. In 1916 Peter was called into the ministry for the Mennonite Kleinegemeinde (later known as the Evangelical Mennonite Conference), serving in the Steinbach congregation. Peter B. Kroeker and his wife Elizabeth L. (Dueck) Kroeker had 12 children together that survive childhood.

This family originates from Fuerstenwerder, Russia. Jacob Heinrich Goertzen (1815-1888) had 20 children that survived infancy -- 10 with his first wife was Maria Loewen (1819-1855), and 10 with Maria Willms (1835-1904), after his first wife passed away. Jacob H. Goertzen migrated to America in 1878 and died in Mountain Lake, Minnesota in 1888.

Julius Letkemann (1821-1908) married Anna Neudorf (1826-1900) in 1944 and lived in Osterwick, Choritiza Colony, Russia. They had 5 children (1 son & 4 daughters) that survived childhood. Son Julius immigrated to Canada in 1923 and daughter Katharina also immigrated to Canada.

Peter Neufeld (1834-1898), a minister, and his wife Anna (Loepp) Neufeld (1835-1901) had four surviving children that married and had children. These four were: Peter Neufeld (1858-1918), Gerhard Neufeld (1866-1905), Kornelius Neufeld (1869-1950) and Agatha (Neufeld) Enns (1874-1943).

Aganetha (Epp) Klassen, her husband Peter Klassen and family came to Canada in 1926 and moved to Mission, British Columbia. Peter's family stayed in Russia because they thought things would get better. They had been very wealthy, even during WW1 and hesitated to leave. The Epp family all came to Canada. Letters were also sent to Abe Epp and Mary Epp (brother and sister) in Manitoba. Louise and Mother lived in Surrey next to sister Mary for many years. Louise (Epp) Klassen stored the letters and passed them on to Margaret (Epp) Wedel who passed them on to Ruth Derksen Siemens

Notes written by Ruth Derksen Siemens.

Gerhard G. and Sara (Ens) Lehn

Gerhard G. Lehn born 27 March 1881and Sara (Ens) Lehn born 17 February 1886 were both born in Kronsgarten, Chortitza, Mennonite Settlement, South Russia. After their marriage they lived with her parents in Kronsgarten for some time. Their first daughter Katharina was born in 1907 in Kronsgarten. By 1909 Gerhard, Sara and Katharina had moved to Leonidovka, Ignatievo. Their next four daughters were all born in Leonidovka - Helena 1909, Sara 1912, Elfrieda 1918 and Cornelia 1920. Elfrieda died in Leonidovka in 1925. The couple with their four daughters came to Canada in June 1926 and settled in Hanley, Saskatchewan. Sara Ens Lehn died in Hanley, Saskatchewan on March 9, 1933. Gerhard married on October 27, 1935 for the second time to Katharina Klassen. The family eventually moved to British Columbia. Katharina died March 22, 1958 in Sardis, British Columbia and Gerhard died 1 March 1970 in Chilliwack, British Columbia.

Notes adapted from Gameo and GRANDMA