| dc.description.abstract | Photographic image. Black and white. Portrait of a family. Man and a woman are seated with four children standing behind them and one child sitting between them. Identified as the Johann “John,” Sr. and Christina (Mittleider) Graf family. Their five youngest children are depicted in this family portrait (Back row, L to R): August Graf; George Johann Graf; Margaretha Graf; Christina Graf. (Front row, center) Lydia Graf. Circa 1896. Photographer is Fallman; Eureka, South Dakota. Courtesy of Ludwig and Christina Graf- Buck Collection, 2001.13, GRHC. | |
| dc.description | Circa 1896 family portrait identified as Mr. and Mrs. John Graf, Sr., mother and father of Mrs. Louie Buck, property of Mrs. L. Christina Buck. Johann Graf, Sr. (born 1845 in Neudorf, Glueckstal District) married (November 1865 in Neudorf) Christina Mittleider (born 1845 in Neudorf) emigrated in April 1885 to Tripp, Dakota Territory before homesteading in 1889 south of Streeter, North Dakota. Their five youngest children are depicted in this family portrait (Back row, L to R): August Graf (born 1883 in Saratov, near Bergdorf) married Christina Dorr (born in Kassel) and homesteaded in Saskatchewan/Alberta in 1914; George Johann Graf (twin, born 1886, Tripp, Dakota Territory); Margaretha Graf (twin, born 1886, Tripp, Dakota Territory) married in 1903 George J. Wentz (born 1880s, Neudorf); Christina Graf (born 1881, Neudorf) married in 1899 in Richville, North Dakota to Ludwig Buck, Jr. (born 1878 in Columbus, Nebraska). (Front row, center) Lydia Graf (born 1890 in Richville, North Dakota) homesteaded in 1914 with her first husband, Cherryholm, to Burstall, Saskatchewan. [source: The John and Katherina Buck Graf Family by Jerome and Shirley Hust, 1998.] Photographer is Fallman, Eureka, South Dakota. Photo courtesy of Ludwig (Lewis) Jr. and Christina Graf Buck Collection. | en |
