| dc.description.abstract | Photographic image. Black and white. Portrait of an elderly woman and five men outside and next to a house with windows. Woman and three men are seated in chairs and two men are standing behind them. Identified as widow Fredericka (Schmidt) Buck with her four younger sons and Adolf Graf [Fredericka (Schmidt) Buck was Wilhelmina Graf’s, wife of Adolf Graf, grandmother]. (left to right, top): Gottlieb Buck and Adolf Graf. (left to right, bottom): Georg Buck, Fred Buck, widow Fredericka Buck, and Johann (Christian?) Buck. Image taken in Friedenstal, Bessarabia by Gottlieb Lange. Dated 1911. Courtesy of Ludwig and Christina Graf-Buck Collection, 2001.13, GRHC. | |
| dc.description | Widow grandmother Fredericka Schmidt (Mrs. Johann Buck) in 1911 portrait with her four younger sons. Johann (Christian?) Buck was born in 1863 to grandparents Johann Buck and Fredericka Schmidt, but remained in Bessarabia with his three younger brothers: Frederich, Georg, and Gottlieb. [Their two oldest brothers, who emigrated to America were Johann (Michael) Buck (born 1855) and Johann (Ludwig) Buck, Sr. (born 1858). A sister, Johanna Buck (born circa 1861) was married to Gottlieb Hoffman of Friedenstal village.] Adolf Graf (right, top) stands behind his wife Wilhelmina's grandmother Fredericka Schmidt Buck. Their names are repeats of their uncles Christian, Gottlieb, and Georg Thomas Buck, who originated from Winterbach, Waiblingen, Wuerttemburg from 1816-1832 to South Russia. Father Johann Buck and brother Christian Buck arrived in 1839 to Friedenstal. [source: Emigration from German to Russia in the years 1763 to 1862 by Dr. Karl Stumpp, page 237.]
Phyllis Knalson Bancroft states, quoting her mother Katie Graf Knalson. All younger Buck sons of Fredericka Schmidt Buck stayed in Bessarabia, and identified by Katie Graf Knalson. Wilhelmina Buck (Tante) married Adolf Graf in 1895 near Streeter. They traveled in 1911 to visit relatives in Friedenstal, Bessarabia. Photo identifies (left to right, top): Gottlieb Buck and Adolf Graf; (left to right, bottom): Georg Buck, Fred Buck, widow Fredericka Buck, and Johann (Christian?) Buck. Photographer is Gottlieb Lange, Friedenstal, Bessarabia. [Also identical photo image from sisters Martha and Magdalene Buck Collection, inherited by Katie Graf Knalson and her daughter, Phyllis Knalson Bancroft.] Photo courtesy of Ludwig (Lewis) Jr. and Christina Graf Buck Collection. | en |
