Monica Dauenhauer was born on September 2, 1876 in Landau, Russia. She married Bartholomew Braun on November 8, 1897 in Richardton, North Dakota. Bartholomew was born November 12, 1874 in Landau, Russia. He died on November 6, 1937 in Mott, ND. Monica died on April 27, 1954 in Elgin, ND. They had 12 children. Not listed in age order: Bill, Rose, Mark, Betty, Eleanor, Flora, Beata, Emil, Caroline, Luke, Helen, and Frank. Two of the children, Helen and Frank, died in infancy.

From Thomas Larsheid’s 1999 Journey to the Homeland Tour Biography: “My maternal grandfather, Bartel Braun, and grandmother, Monica Dauenhauer, are from the Beresan District, immigrating to Richardton, North Dakota, in the 1890s. They later moved to Mott. Both spoke Russian and German; my grandfather spoke Low German, my grandmother High German. It is said my great-grandfather, Markus Dauenhauer (born in Landau, Russia, August 12, 1850), did not favor the marriage. Markus Dauenhauer was a very successful farmer in Russia and America. He gave or sold, there is a dispute, the land for Assumption Abbey in Richardton.”