The Peters Store owned by Peter Peters, maternal grandfather of Marg Boldt. Jewelry was sold here and the family was well off. The Brasol Colony was just north of the Molochna Colony.
Isaak Sawatsky and Anna Dick Gossen Sawatsky (she was married 2 times), paternal step-grandfather and grandmother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck. Elfrieda remembers him fondly as a good grandfather.
Jakob Enns family in an outdoor setting. Jakob was likely a paternal uncle of Olga Enns. Again, the label of the photo is “Cabinet Portrait” indicating the photographer could have been Mennonite or German.
Funeral of four men and one woman who were killed by the bandits. The woman died with the men because she threw himself in front of her father. Likely they were relatives of Olga’s family.
The wedding of Gerhard Enns’ sister (paternal aunt to Olga Enns) to Abram Baerg. The bride wears a black dress and a white veil. Earlier it was the custom to wear black for weddings. The label of the photo is “Cabinet Portrait” indicating the photographer could have been Mennonite or German.
Heinrich Enns and Sara Enns on horseback. They were siblings of Olga Enns’ father, Gerhard Enns. Heinrich was an evangelist. Perhaps this photo was taken on his travels as an evangelist.
The Gerhard Neufeld family. The background of this photo is interesting with its view of the forest. See M2004E-6 for a picture of Gerhard when he was younger. On this photo he could be 7 years old. His sister Katja (Katie) stands behind him. Imprinted on the bottom right hand corner of this photo is the date 1904. In 1924 when Olga Enns was 7 years old, her family emigrated to Canada. But she was not allowed to come to Canada in July with the rest of her family. Her parents asked a different Neufeld family to look after 7 year old Olga and Gerhard Neufeld who by this time was in his late teens and an orphan. Gerhard and Olga arrived in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in September 1924. Gerhard later married a daughter of Bishop (Ältester) Janzen of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Heinrich Enns, brother to Olga Enns’ father Gerhard Enns is with another man in the forest. Heinrich is probably the one standing behind the other man, to the right of the man holding the horse. This photo could be related to his Alternative Service during WW I, or, his work as an evangelist. Heinrich Enns worked as an evangelist during the chaotic times of the 1920s when preaching was forbidden. Because of this he was hunted down by the Bolsheviks, suffering severely because of this to the point of death. The Mennonites asked the Bolsheviks to finally leave him alone. He was brought to a house where he could die in peace. He died in the late 1920s when Olga’s family was already living in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Wedding portrait of Peter Dyck and his wife, maternal (her mother’s brother) uncle of Olga Enns. The bride is wearing a white dress and an unusual headpiece. The setting is very elegant.