April 25, 1957

Marie Hensel

*Snap Shot  Jacob had traveled to Canada to see about some land but was stopped at the border as he had forgotten his passport.  When he returned home, he became ill with flue and pneumonia and died.  Interment in Hannover, Kansas.  The family moved back to Linton, DD, from Kansas around 1921 or 1922.  Grenz von Gueldendorf         

H.H. Meier, sailed from Bremen to New York Feb 25, 1899 with wife Maria from Konstanta, Romania, farmer, age 23, wife age 21 to Eureka North Dakota to brother John Pfeifer

*Snap Shot:  Adam Pfeifer, who lived on a farm southwest of town, was struck by a bolt of lightening during the thunder storm Tuesday afternoon.  He died instantly. he was standing in the doorway of the barn at the time.  Burial was made yesterday. He was a young man still in the prime of his life and his death is mourned greatly by his young wife and several small children Per Grenz van Gueldendorf, page 133, from:  Anamoose Progress May 21, 1914

Born: 27 Aug 1881 - Gueldendorf, S. Russia

Died:  04 Nov 1971 - San Joaquin, CA

Married: 1903

Spouse: Elisabeth Sauter

Born:  5 Sep 1881 - S Dakota

Died:   19 Dec. 1973

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*Notes:  New York Immigration Records:  From Koschali, Romania, to brother John Pfeifer in Eureka South Dakota, age 18, SS Columbia, from Hamburg, sailed 4 April 1900, also on Hamburg Passenger List, single

*Notes:  Arrival 28 Mar 1908, SS Chemnitz from Bremen. Arrival April 1908 Baltimore, Maryland