| dc.description.abstract | Photographic image. Black and white. Group image of twenty-three women and two men standing on the steps of a church. Identified as the Mother's Choir with two pastors. Photographer is Broadstreet Photos; Marion, Kansas. Christina Graf Buck organized and directed the famous Mother's Choir from the Ebenezer Evangelical Church. Dated 1940. Rev. C. F. Strutz, Superintendent, on left and Rev. G. C. Thiele on right (Streeter, ND pastor). (L to R, front row): Margartha (Graf) Wentz, Dorothea (Wentz) Buck, Marion (Buck) Hochhalter, Christina (Graf) Buck, and Magdalena (Raile?) Rau. (L to R, second row): Sophia (Heth) George, Marie (Schwartzwalter) Eisenbeis, Lydia (Rempfer) Buck, and Barbara (Peiffer) Veil. (L to R, third row): Marie (Buck) Ketterling, Katherina (Weiland) Enztminger, and Mrs. Jacob Bitterman. (L to R, fourth row): Dorothea “Dora” (Wentz-Buck) Fischer, Karoline (Liebig) Kirschenmann, and Ida (Lautt) Schauer. (L to R, back row): Fredericka (Enztminger) Schauer, Fredericka (Stausz) Fischer, Rosina (Betsch) Woehl, Christina? (Enztminger) Iszler, Wilhelmina (Ehniz) Schwartzwalter, and Mrs. Gottlieb Buchfink. Courtesy of Ludwig and Christina Graf-Buck Collection, 2001.13, GRHC. | |
| dc.description | Twenty-three grandmothers sing in the Mother's Choir, flanked by two Evangelical (Evangelical United Brethren) pastors. Photographer is Broadstreet Photos, Marion, Kansas, during national conference. Christina Graf, born 1881, married Ludwig Buck, Jr. (born 1878) in April 1899 in Richville, North Dakota. Christina Graf Buck organized and directed the famous Mother's Choir from the Ebenezer Evangelical Church, whose congregation was founded from 1906-1911, origins from earlier three rural Hope, Ebenezer, and Peace churches.
May 1940 women's choir: (Rev. C. F. Strutz, Superintendent, on left and Rev. G. C. Thiele on right, Streeter pastor). (L to R, front row): Mrs. George Wentz (Margartha Graf), Mrs. Michael Buck, Jr. (Dorothea Wentz), Mrs. Christian Hochhalter (Marion Buck), Mrs. Ludwig (Lewis) Buck (Christina Graf), and Mrs. Fred Rau (Magdalena Raile?). (L to R, second row): Mrs. J. H. George (Sophia Heth), Mrs. Adolf Eisenbeis (Marie Schwartzwalter), Mrs. Jacob J. Buck (Lydia Rempfer), and Mrs. Theobald Veil (Barbara Peiffer). (L to R, third row): Mrs. Frederick C. Ketterling (Marie Buck), Mrs. Anton Enztminger (Katherina Weiland), and Mrs. Jacob Bitterman (unidentified). (L to R, fourth row): Mrs. Gottlieb Fischer (Mrs. Dorothea (Dora) Wentz Buck), Mrs. Frederick Kirschenmann (Karoline Liebig), and Mrs. Jacob Schauer, Jr. (Ida Lautt). (L to R, back row): Mrs. John Schauer ( Fredericka Enztminger), Mrs. J. B. Fischer (Fredericka Stausz), Mrs. Rosina Betsch Woehl, Mrs. Michael Iszler (Christina? Enztminger), Mrs. John J. Schwartzwalter, Jr. (Wilhelmina Ehniz), and Mrs. Gottlieb Buchfink (unidentified). [Identified by consensus of family members.] Photo courtesy of Ludwig (Lewis) Jr. and Christina Graf Buck Collection. | en |
