*Snap Shot:  A resident of the Zeeland community since 1894, John R. Pfeifer, age 83, died Thursday, April 11 at the Eureka Hospital after a lingering illness. Funeral services were held Monday, April 15, in the Zion Lutheran Church, of which he was a charter member, with Rev Ernst Klaszus officiating.  Burial was made in the Lutheran Cemetery.  While still a young boy he lived in Romania and in 1886, two years after the death of his father, he came to the United States.  Mr. Pfeifer worked on farms in South Dakota until his marriage to Elizabeth Reimer at Yankton, S.D. six years before the turn of the century.  The couple homesteaded 1/2 mile went of Zeeland where they farmed for over 50 years.  It was in 1928 that they left the farm and moved to town but continued to operate the farm with the help of their son Henry.  To this union 12 children were born. Grenz von Gueldendorf book, page 130, quotes obituary from the Ashley Tribune, Ashley, ND, April 25, 1957

*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

*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