Bender Family - Ronald Wiedmann Photograph Collection
Venturia, North Dakota
Ron is in the process of compiling histories of the Wiedmann,
Bender, and Krause families of Venturia, North Dakota.
The Wiedmann family has been traced to the Württemburg
area of Germany. They emigrated to the south Russian village of
Grossliebental, where Jakob Wiedmann was born. He married Elisabetha
Wagner in 1862 and almost immediately moved to the daughter colony
of Annental where their children were born. The family came to the
United States in 1890, arriving in Eureka, SD, and eventually homesteaded
1/2 mile west of Venturia. They were Lutherans in Russia, but affiliated
with the Venturia Baptist church.
Jakob Wiedmann built the Bazaar in 1901, the first building
in Venturia. His sons, Jacob S. and John started the Wiedmann Brothers
Hardware Store in Venturia in 1906. After Jacob S. died in 1914,
his younger brother, Philip, moved in from his farm to take over
the store. Philip's son, Otto - Ron's father - married Leah Krause.
The Martin Bender family originated in the ancestral village
of Kassel in the Glueckstal district of south Russia. The family
arrived at New York in December 1885 and homesteaded land 2 miles
north and 6 miles west of Venturia in the Spring of 1886. The Benders
were originally Lutherans in Russia, but were influenced by the
independent reformed movement. In the US they were life-long members
of the Venturia Baptist Church.
The Krause family originated in Schonlanke, Posen, Prussia,
and emigrated to Bessarabia, south Russia. The Samuel Krause family
came to the United States from Tarutino, Bessarabia in 1886 and
lived near Eureka, SD where they were members of the Eureka Lutheran
Church. Samuel Krause and Beata Hiller's son, Gottlieb Krause, homesteaded
land southwest of Venturia. Gottlieb married Katharina Dobler, and
their son, Jacob, married Frieda Bender, and lived in Zeeland for
several years before moving to Lehr with their daughter, Leah.
Ron is retired and lives in Fargo with his wife, Glenna.
His e-mail address is: berean1711@cableone.net
His family web site is: http://myweb.cableone.net/berean1711/index.html
This collection of photographs was scanned from pictures
he has received from many different sources.
Images 1-21
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Image 1.
1905. Martin and Christina (Knoll) Bender shown with their
3 youngest children, Sam, Frieda, and Ginthon. |
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Image 2.
1911. Daughters of Martin Bender: Back, Albina and Frieda;
front, Christina and Bertha. |
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Image 2B.
"Katherina (Sattler) Knoll, about 1905; mother of Christina
(Knoll) Bender; daughter of Philipp & Sharla (Goehring)
Sattler, who are buried in the Sattler Family Cemetery in
Bon Homme County, SD (see Stevens, David Photographs)." |
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Image 3.
1907. This picture of the Martin Bender family in front of
their house was printed in the Ashley Tribune. L. to r.: Albina,
Philipina, August (bicycle), Sam, Gideon, Bertha, Christina,
Martin and Christina, Lydia, Frieda, Grandma Katharina Knoll
(porch), Bert Schnabel (carriage), Jake and Katie Schnabel,
and Martin, Jr. (bicycle). |
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Image 4.
2004. The same house as it looked in 2004. |
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Image 5.
1913. Jacob Schrenk and Christina Bender wedding picture. |
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Image 6.
1913. August Bender and Katharina Denning wedding picture. |
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Image 7.
1915. Gottlieb Krause and Bertha Bender wedding picture. |
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Image 8.
1917. Ed Feiock and Albina Bender wedding picture. |
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Image 9.
1917. Jacob Krause and Frieda Bender wedding picture. Albina
and Frieda were married on the same day. |
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Image 10.
1922. Ginthon Bender and Ella Knoll wedding picture. |
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Image 11.
1925. Katie (Bender) and Jake Schnabel in front of their
Venturia house. |
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Image 12.
1927 Dorothy Helm and Bert Schnabel (son of Jake and Katie)
wedding picture. |
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Image 13.
1931. Bertha (Bender) Krause and Christina (Knoll) Bender
by casket of Martin Bender. |
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Image 14.
1940. The Martin Bender Jr. family picture. L. to r.: back
row, Ada, Ella, Reiney, Alfred, Herman, Reuben, and LaRue.
Front row, Jakie, father Martin, Jr., Emil, mother Rika (Fredericka
Schnabel), and Gideon. |
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Image 15.
1942. The funeral of Lydia (Bender) Woehl. L. to r.: Sam,
Martin, Jr., Katie (Schnabel), mother Christina, Philipina
(Dockter), Christina (Schrenk), Bertha (Krause), Frieda (Krause).
Ginthon had died just 3 months earlier. |
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Image 16.
1960's. Philipina (Bender) and Gottlieb Dockter. |
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Image 17.
1950. Sam and Leah (Breitling) Bender. |
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Image 18.
The Sam & Leah Bender farm (now the Donavon & Lorie
Bender farm) 7 miles W of Venturia. |
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Image 19.
Clarence & Sam Bender hauling wheat to town. |
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Image 20.
Sam Bender's first threshing rig. The belt-drive tractor
is a 15-30 Huber; the threshing machine is a 28-inch Red River
Special; the tractor pulling the wagon is a 1948 B John Deere.
Delbert & Clarence are pitching bundles, Sam is on the
trailer." |
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