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Brienne, Akkerman District, Bessarabian Village, South Russia. Founded in 1816. One of the original Bessarabian Lutheran colonies.
Heinrich lived to be 73 years and 23 days.
Heinrich ADOLF (AFN: 18MP-4WP) Pedigree
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Birth: 13 Apr 1797
Oderberg, Brandenberg, Prussia
Death: 6 May 1870 ; Heinrich Adolf
From the 1954 Diary of Fredrick Adolf b. 1868 Hazen, ND
Translated by Victor Knell
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Heinrich Adolf and Carlotta Rossman Adolf were born in Berlin,Germany. They migrated to Brienne, Bessarabia Russia, with 70 otherfamilies in 1817. This colony was established in 1816. They made thetrip to the unsettled Steppe with much difficulty. Food was scarce andthe sky was their roof and the earth their bed. The Russian governmentgave them a little money tobuild a house and 60 desjatin (162 acres) ofland and clothing was provided to last a year.
Grandfather Adolf had brought a little money with him. He built awind mill right away, since he was a miller by trade. He milled thepeople's wheat into flour. For his work he took aportion of the wheat,that is from a pud (40) pounds, then charged a garnitz for his work.There are 8 garnitz in a pud. He also asked 5 pounds for the use of themill. Times were very hard.
When spring arrived, most of the families started large gardens. Notmuch wheat was seeded because there were very few draft animals to do theplowing. We started large gardens and everything they planted provided abountiful harvest for them. Some Planted fruit trees, mainlymulberries. Starlings were a problem. These they tried to frighten awaywith a loud noise maker.
In the second year, 1818, a small caravan of 30 families came fromthe province of Wurttemberg, also called Schaben, Germany. AU thesepeople settled in the colony. Every one got their60 desiatins of landfrom the government.
Heinrich and Carlotta Rossman Adolf had seven sons and no daughters.They are:
Karl who married Eva Kuch, they had five sons and two daughters.
Johann who married Eva Klaf, they hadfour sons and five daughters.
Wilhelm who married Barbara Maier, they had two sons and five daughters.
Heinrich who married Magdalena Oster, they had three sons and fivedaughters.
Christian who married Friederike Steeg, they had three sons and twodaughters.
Fredrick who married Elizabeth Schell, they had five sons and fivedaughters.
Daniel who married Katherina Zinc, they had seven sons and sevendaughters.
This short history of the grandparents was translated from a German diaryin 1954 by Fredrick Adolf who was 87 years old. He was born March 9,1868 in the German colony of Brienne, Bessarabia, South Russia. He cameto the United States with his parents in 1889 and settled in the area ofNorth Dakota that is now known as Hazen.
Ernst
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