Family Tree of Henry Foote

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Family Tree of Henry FooteAnd

Fragments of Family HistoryGathered and Compiled by

Paulina Foote,Daughter of Henry Foote

Transcribed into digital form,Preserving,

Of theOriginal:

Pagination, excepting blank pages;Formatting most generally and as implied;Spelling of names, places and other words,

Excepting obvious typographical errors;And

Handwritten corrections applied to manuscriptBy

Paulina Foote,

In order toPreserve the

OriginalCharacter, quality, and historical nature

Of theContents herein,

ByDaniel Foote,

Great-Grandson of Henry Foote


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A Little of the History of Henry Foote and His Forefathers.Heinrich Voth, father of Henry Foote, died before Fathers birth. Very little of the Voth family is

known. There is a legend that a man from Holland traveled on foot to Poland and thus was called DeVothgaenger, meaning the foot traveler. He was supposed to have a large button made of a seashell on whichhe had engraved his name or nickname,De Vothgaenger. He willed this to his oldest son with the requestthat the button should be passed on to the oldest sons of the following generations. Later the De of the

name was left off and still later the last part of Vothgaenger, that is gaenger meaning traveler was also leftoff. The name Voth is still in use. Since our forefathers emigrated from Holland to Poland, we may bedescendents of this Vothgaenger. That button was passed on for a number of generations and was brought bya Voth family in Minnesota. When the oldest son of the family moved to Canada, a trunk of his things waslost on the way and was never found. In that trunk was that button..

Since fathers mother was poor, she dad to work out. He was left to stay with his grandparentsPenner. His mother was later married to Franz Ewert. When the grandparents emigrated to the United States,they took Henry along. His mother and stepfather never came to America. To the Ewert union there werethree children born, John, Maria Ewert-Goertz and Bena Ewert-Wolf. The aunts and their familiesdisappeared after World War I in the Russian Revolution when the Communists took over. Whether theywere killed outright, sent to labor camps or what happened to them we do not know. Uncle John and familymanaged to get to Poland, while the aunts lived in Russian Poland. Uncle John and aunt Emilie had one son,Leonard, who came to this country, was married to Mary Stuckle of Bessie, Oklahoma. Later they made theirhome at Herbert, Saskatchewan, where he died in 1954.

When the German army retreated in World War II, uncle and aunt Ewert tried to flee with this armyinto Germany. Uncle was very sick. He begged to be left by the roadside to die and asked aunt and theiradopted daughter to continue their flight. Aunt went a ways but could not forget him. She went back to him.He died. The pursuing soldiers abused her and brutally put her to death as other fleeing people reported later.

The maiden name of Fathers grandmother was Maria Kurzhals. She outlived grandfather and diedJan. 25, 1899 at the age of 85 years. My sister Anna and I still remember seeing her. She gave each of us anenamel ware cup. She spent the last years of her life with her daughter, Henrietta, Mrs. David Karber.

Father Footes original name was Heinrich Voth. When he came to the United States with hisgrandparents, they stayed in Illinois for a short time among the Amish Mennonites. There was a man by thename of Zehr who took a liking to the then eleven year old boy. He made an offer to the grandparents that ifthey would let him have the boy, he would send him to school and when he became of age he would givehim a team of horses, a wagon and $200.00, which was at that time worth quite a fortune. Mr. Zehr becamehis guardian and changed his name from Heinrich Voth to Henry Foote. The grandparents moved toHillsboro, Kansas. In the fall of 1884 he went to be with his grandparents and relatives. In October 1886 hemarried our first mother, Eva Block. They lived on eighty acre farm about six miles southwest of Marion,Kansas. Besides farming father quarried some stone. Some of these stones were used in the buildings of thealexanderwohl Church, Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church and the Old Peoples Home southeast ofHillsboro, Kansas.


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Some of the cows had calves. They were put on the hayrack. How they kept them there I do notknow. It took them thirteen days to make this move to uncle Gertzes place, five miles southeast of Fairview,Oklahoma. Uncle Gertz had built a small blacksmith shop, which was the only building in the territory.

In the latter part of April my parents came by to get me. Grandmother stayed with Penners until fall.It was a cloudy day. On the way back we stopped for dinner at some of our relatives, Weber by name, (shewas cousin to Wm. Penner, who for many years worked for the M.B. Publishing House at Hillsboro,Kansas.) We had to feed the horses and wanted to warm ourselves. They lived in a small granary. I stillremember what we had for dinner, beans, and were they good! After we had eaten, the lady of the housewent to a big trunk and found an apple. She cut it in pieces and gave me one. It was the first apple I had evereaten.

The first summer we lived in a tent and the cover wagon top on the ground. It was very hot and dry.Mother was sick. Often she would go down to the creek and cry. Father was not so heavy hearted as she, butenergetic. What he wanted he worked for with dauntless spirit. Some years ago he had filed eighty acres andcould file only eighty acres more. Two men living on a quarter near by were willing to relinquish their claimfor a certain amount of money. This father paid. He and grandmother filed these two eighties with theunderstanding that she could stay with us as long as she lived.

There were two dugouts on the land. One small, size 20x12, and the other a little larger, built into abank of a creek running across one corner of the land. We were warmer that winter, but our living quarterswere rather crowded. When we had eaten, we cleaned the table and put the chairs on the table to have roomto walk. At times we fared on kaffircorn bread and drank barley coffee. It did not seem so bad to me as I wastoo small to realize the seriousness of our situation and not having known a more convenient life.

One day after we had eaten our simple supper, two men on a cart stopped at our place. They askedfor something to eat. Mother hurried to prepare it. We recognized them to be the notorious robbers, Yagerand Black. One was very nervous. He ate with his gun on his lap. When he heard a canvass flapping againstthe dugout, he told father to go outside and tell him if anybody was coming. Soon they left again on their twowheeled cart. They were known to take what they wanted and then go on.

As long we were well it was alright. But when one of the family was sick, we worried. No moneyand very few doctors. Father and one of the sisters had typhoid fever one summer. I suppose from theunclean water we had to drink.

We had happy times, too. Especially do I remember the first Christmas tree we had in the CherokeeStrip. It was the most wonderful Christmas for me! We did not buy any candles. Grandmother and I madethem. Maybe we could have bought them in the little store, but we did not have the money. Grandmother hadsome wick string stored away in her trunk she had brought along from Russia. We had some tallow. We cutthe string into short lengths, just long enough to make two candles. She dipped the ends into hot tallow, thenI hung them on a branch to cool. I had to do this several times until they were large


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enough to use. Some of the men got a nice green cedar tree, which were plentiful. We tied the candles ontothe tree branches, for we had no candle holders. When it was lit I thought it the most beautiful tree I had everseen. We had a short program with the family living near us. My uncle Cornelius Gertz led in singing SilentNight, and other songs. Then we said our readings. I remember my piece consisted of two long stanzas of a

German song. When we were relaxing from doing our part on the program, in walked two older boys of ourvisiting family. What to do no? There were no extra gifts to give to the boys. The older sisters were in apredicament. No candy to pass around. At that time the stores had one kind of candy, the banana candy. Onepiece was the size of a split banana. Alas, our sisters asked us to let the boys have ours, with the promise thatthey would get us some after Christmas Day. I cant remember receiving the candy later, but I do know that Idid not have candy that Christmas. There have been quite a few Christmas Days in my life. I had littlepresents and big presents, but remember the first Christmas in the Cherokee Strip best of all.

After the third winter in these dugouts, the family had grown to nine children. With father, motherand grandmother we were twelve, too many for comfort. In the large dugout we ate, visited and father andmother and the baby slept there at nights. The small dugout was the sleeping room for grandmother and therest of the children. In winter, when zero weather, we would hurry to our dugout bedroom. In spring when itrained, for it had to be wet to break the sod, father built a nice big sod house, about thirty feet long, fourteenfeet wide and seven feet high. The walls were twenty-four inches thick. Sod was placed upon sod until thewalls were high enough. In the center was a big wooden pillar for the reach log to rest on lengthwise. Acrossthey but black jack posts, one close to the other, then hay, sod and dirt. The roof had to be repaired afterevery big rain. Many times we sat around after a rainstorm, bedding covered with the table oil cloth and mostof our pans and crocks sitting under the leaks to catch the water dripping through the roof. Seems as thoughwe got more rain those days.

I was still my grandmothers girl to lead her around and to read to her from an old songbook severalinches thick. That is where I learnt to read German, for I have only five weeks of German instruction.Grandmother could not go to church often. One of us girls had to stay at home with her and the smallerchildren. I recall one Sunday after the parents had gone to church, my little brother, age five, was naughty.Grandma wanted to spank him. Brother always walked around the big post in the center of the house. Shecould not catch him because she could not see him. Under such circumstances it must have been hard for her,but she never grumbled much. The first thing in the morning we had to get her a cup of hot milk, and it hadto be hot. Then she would stay in bed for a while. One day, when I was alone in the room with her, she wentto the big trunk and gave me a black prune for helping her. I had to eat it right away for she did not haveenough for all the children. She lived with us for two years in the new sod house. There were two weddingsand two deaths in that soddie. Two of my oldest sisters, Emilia, Mrs. Wm. Bartel, and Lizzie, Mrs. A. A.Kliewer, were married there. My brother David, who fell off the roof of the new church while he was helpingto shingle it, died there.

In January 1899 grandmother took sick with the grippe. My mother said, Grandmother is verysick. About twelve oclock one night she went to be with her Lord and Saviour in the heavenly home.


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It was very cold on her funeral day. Uncle Gertz made a wooden coffin and some ladies covered itwith black muslin on the outside and lined it with white muslin. Hanging over the sides of the coffin werewhite scallops of muslin. These were punched on t he edges with a leather punch to give a lace effect.Grandmother was laid to rest in the South Hoffnundsfeld [Hoffnungsfeld?] graveyard at the age of eighty-

four years and six months.

This ends the years and days of my dear grandmother as a pioneer in the Cherokee Strip.


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Some of That Which is Known of Henry Footes Grandparents Benjamin Penners Family Record.

Name Birthday Date of Death Number of Sons

Number ofDaughters

Place of Death

Parents:

Benjamin

Penner

Sept. 17, 1807 Summer of

1883

Two Five Hillsboro,

KansasMariaKurzhals-Penner

July 11, 1814 Jan. 25, 1899 Two Five Fairview,Oklahoma

Children:

Eva Penner-Ewert

Two Two Russia

Jacob Penner Two Three Poland or Russia

SusannaPenner-Ediger

Dec. 20, 1844 Five? Two? Poland or Russia

Peter Penner Sept. 14, 1845 May 30, 1918 Two Nine Balko,

OklahomaMaria Penner-Gertz

June 5, 1851 Aug. 6, 1921 Five Four Fairview,Oklahoma

ElisabethPenner-Beier

April 12, 1853 South Dakota

HeinrigettaPenner-Krber

June 10, 1857 Dec. 20, 1940 Three Eight Fairview,Oklahoma

Of Jacob we know that he had the following children: Benjamin who live and died at Homestead,Okla., Jacob who lived at El Reno, Okla. and died there, Maria Gerbrecht, Susie Christ and Annie Rupp livedin California. The first two daughters died at Glendora and Mrs. Annie Rupp lived and died at Reedley,California.

Peter married Eva Wohlgemuth Schroeder. Their children were Frena (Mrs. H.H.Karber), Mary(Mrs. Peter Gertz), Bena (Mrs. Corn. Penner), Eva (Mrs. Jake Karber), Emilie (Mrs. Peter Penner), Martha(Mrs. George Kliewer), Henrietta (Mrs. Ebel Bartel), Susie (Mrs. Alex. Wall), Julia (Mrs. Menno Bartel),Peter married Martha Ratzlaff and Benjamin died when he was small. Some of these children and theirdescendants still live in the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Susanna was married to Peter Ediger who both died in the old country. I am not sure how manychildren they had. Some children of their son Peter, who was deaf and dumb, live at Drake, Saskatchewan.

Elisabeth was married to Peter Beier and lived and died in South Dakota. They had some childrenbut nothing is known about them.

Maria was married to Cornelius Gertz July 12, 1872. They emigrated to America via Hamburg toNew York landing in July 1874. She was baptized in 1897 by Abraham Schellenberg and joined theHillsboro, Kansas Mennonite Brethren Church. The following are their children: Peter married Maria Penner,

Cornelius a Miss Ratzlaff Zielke, David to Lydia Ratzlaff, do not remember whom Jacob and Arthurmarried, Mary (Mrs. Dan Neufeld), Lydia (Mrs. Ratzlaff), Martha (Mrs. Wm. Penner), and Henrietta (Mrs.Arthur Nickel).

Heinrigetta was married to David Krber. Their children were Emilie (Mrs. Wm. Bartel), Lizzie(Mrs. A.A. Kliewer), John married Justina Cornelson, David died in an accident, Maria (Mrs. P. A. Martens),Susie (Mrs. Corn. Schroeder), Henrietta (Mrs. Dick Cornelson), Benjamin married Louise Warkentin, Eva(Mrs. J. C. Wichert), Tena (Mrs. P. J. Unruh) and Martha who died when small. Father Krber was baptizedby Jacob Ehrlich and joined the Mennonite Brethren Church at Marion, Kansas the day before the familymoved from Kansas to Oklahoma.


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An Account of the Emigration Trip of Heinrich Block and Family from Russia to the United States and OtherIncidents in their Life.

(Gathered from Peter H. Blocks Record and translated byPaulina Foote.)

Our Grandfather was Heinrich Block who was married to Aganetha Janzen. They lived in a village in

Pommern near Graudenz, Prussia. He died in 1825 and she died in 1829. Their son Heinrich was bornFebruary 11, 1813 in Prussia. He was left an orphan at the age of sixteen years.

Heinrich Block Jr. spent the time from September 3, 1839 to May 11, 1841 in Russia at theMolotschna. He wove linen cloth by trade and was a tailor. He was married to Katharina Buller December 2,1841.

In 1853 they moved from Prussia to Poland and lived in the village of Sady where he bought someland and they made their home. After the first year here he made a trip on foot back to Prussia. He did this tovisit friends, relatives and to dispose of some of their things he had left there. During this time his wife diedand was buried on a Saturday three days after her death which was June 21, 1854. She was buried on theDeutsch Wymishle Cemetery near the Weichsel (Vistula) River in Poland. The day after her burial herhusband arrived at home. To him it seemed impossible that she was really dead. His grief and sorrow wasalmost imbearable. To convince himself, that she was really dead, he dug up the grave and found that she hadpassed on. She reached the age of 35 years, born four children, namely, Heinrich H., Helena, Aganetha andDavid I. Son Heinrich was married three times. The first marriage was with Anna Gertz, the second to AnnaEbel and the third to Elisabeth Doering. Helena was married to Johann Kiehn, Aganetha was married toJohann Nickel and David I. died when he was nine years old.

Father Heinrich Block remarried. This time he married Susanna Unrau, daughter of Tobias Unrau.They were married November 3, 1854. Her mother was a God fearing woman. The daughter had theassurance that her mother went to heaven at her death. Susanna was born August 12, 1828. The followingchildren were born to this union: Maria, who died when she was a little over a year old, Peter H., Anna, John,Eva, Paulina and David II., who died when he was less than two months old.

The parents lived in Poland in the Village of Sady near Gombin. Father got restless and in the fall of1872 they sold their land and most of their things. On the 20 th of October they started to move on two wagonsto Russia. Some other people on nine wagons moved at the same time. They moved about 700 verst or about465 miles southeast into Russia. They arrived in Warsaw on the 22nd where they had to wait for theirpassports until the 26th. They reached Schitomer on November 10, 1872.

Here father bought a hufe of land which is 30 morgen, where we lived until May 31, 1875. After thisthe parents with us five youngest children and our two oldest sisters with their families emigrated toAmerica.

A wagon took us to a railway station, where we arrived early on June 3rd and at six oclock in theevening we took the train to Warsaw which we reached on the 4th at noon. The next day a Polish man took usto

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Gombin. From here a friend of ours, a Heinrich Unruh, took us to Wymischle where we stayed with friendsand relatives for eleven days.

June 17th there was a farewell service in Uncle Heinrich Unruhs home. Early the next morningDavid Bartel took us to the train. At one oclock in the afternoon we reached the boundary where we wererequired to go to an office where our passports were examined. At 3 oclock we boarded the train, but were


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asked to show our passports again. We left the train at a station near Thoren, Germany, where we spent thenight. My father and I went over the large bridge to Thoren where we saw part of the city. For the night wewent back. The next morning we left for Bromberg where we arrived at 9 oclock and waited there until 6oclock in the evening. On we went until 7 oclock in the morning when we reached the large city of Berlin,the city for the Emperors. I walked through the city and got very tired. At 11 oclock the train took us toHamburg where we arrived at 8 oclock in the evening. At 9 oclock we went to the emigration house.

The 20th of June I went to a very large church. In the beginning I could not see nor make out wherethe preacher stood, but I could hear him preach. The next few days I could get around in the city. On the 22nd

a small man came to see us and invited us to an evening meeting where they sang the good song, Himmelangeht unsere Bahn.

Many of Hamburgs streets consist of canals on which small ships sail, especially in the morningwhen the tide is in. June 25th we boarded the ship that left at 8 P.M. We soon went to bed. In the morning wesaw no land and the boat went up and down so that many people were sick. Early June 27th we saw land. By11 oclock we were in Hartlepool. We had travelled 400 miles by sea. We stayed on the ship for that wasSunday.

The next day at 9 A.M. we took the train and travelled through England. The eastern part lookedbeautiful, the prettiest area I had ever seen in the world. We saw small farms, houses, pastures, planted fieldsand fat cows. The western part was very stoney and mountainous with many factories. The air was dark withsmoke. Our train went through 13 tunnels where it was very dark. The 4th, 12th, and 13th were long. The 11th

about four miles was the longest. There were a number of shorter tunnels yet where it was not all dark. By 6P.M. we had gone clear across England about 212 miles. We arrived in the large city of Liverpool, where wewere taken to the emigration house.

On July 1st, 9 A.M. we boarded a boat which took us to the large ship and 5 P.M. this started goingout westward. The next day at 3 P.M. we reached Ireland where several passengers boarded our ship.

On July 4th near noon a fire broke out in the lower part of the ship near the coal pile. God wasmerciful. The sailors used the large water hose and were able to quench the fire. Some of the large freighttrunks had to be replaced. One trunk fell onto a sailor and injured his leg so that he was very lame. Duringthis time I was in

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my cabin on my bed silently praying to God and was very much afraid. In the afternoon the sea-sickness letup. For a week, which seemed very long, we saw only water. Sunday July 11th we were still on high sea. OnMonday I asked a sailor when we should see land. He answered in English which I did not understand. ButTuesday we saw land and that night we were near New York. The next morning we anchored in the largeharbor, where a small boat took us to Kesselgar where we stayed in a house until evening. At 6 P.M. we wereon a train bound for the West. On we went from one large city to another, day and night until Saturday at 9oclock we left the train and had arrived in Florence, Kansas. Quickly the train left us and we were left to ourfate. We lay down on the platform in front of the depot and slept well. On July 18, 1875 when the sun cameup we awoke for the first time in Kansas.

Then my brother in law, Johann Kiehn, Johann Nickel and I walked about fourteen or fifteen miles tothe old Heinrich Gertz place where my oldest brother Heinrich already lived. Along the way lived a widowwhose name was Flaming who gave us breakfast. At 1 oclock in the afternoon we arrived at my brother. Itbegan to rain and my parents had to stay in Florence until the next day when they were gotten on a wagon.

We lived with the Gertzes for some time. Since everything was so strange, father began to worry andbecame despondent. He was so sad that he got very weak. But after he began to work for himself, he gotcourageous again. He bought an eighty acre farm, if I remember right at $3.00 an acre. This eighty was partof the section on which the town of Hillsboro was built. The northeast eighth of this section became our


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home. Our first house was about a yard in the ground with walls of sod above the ground. The roof was ofboards. The south end had a room in which we lived. The north end was a barn for two horses and two cows.We moved into the house before Christmas 1875.

We enjoyed our home except when it rained hard. Then the water came in through the entranceplaces and we had to dip much water. In the summer of 1877 we built a new house of stone. Late in the fall

we were able to move into the north end of the house, for we had already put a roof of Prairie grass on thatpart. We finished the south end during the winter.I had my attention on a faithful Maria Unruh and wooed her. She gave me her hand and heart to go

with me the rest of her life. We were married February 2, 1878 and were very happy together. We lived a lifeof prayer which brought us treasurers we needed.

My parents lived a very pious life and hoped by doing good they could be saved. After we came toAmerica we heard the Gospel of Grace through Jesus Christ preached to us and that one could know that hissins were forgiven when one in repentance and faith would accept Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour. Theresult was that a revival broke out in the French Creek area north of Hillsboro, Kansas. Among the manywho were saved at that time were our mother and all of us children except Paulina, the youngest. We weresaved in 1880 and baptized the spring of 1881. All the others in the family, except my brother Heinrich and Ijoined the Mennonite Brethren Church and became Charter Members of the Hillsboro, Kansas MennoniteBrethren Church. Father and Paulina were saved later, were baptized May 21, 1891 and

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were added to the Mennonite Brethren Church. Father was 79 years old at that time. Heinrich and I werebaptized by Elder Jacob A. Wiebe and joined the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Church south of Hillsboro.In September 1896 father became blind and spent the last five years without his sight. He reached the age of88 years, 8 months less one day. He had an easy death. He went to sleep and did not wake up.

Mother died November 21, 1904 after she had a vision of Heaven where it was very bright and light.So anxious was she to die that she asked her son, Peter, if her feet were already getting cold.

Thus far I have gathered the above from Peter H. Blocks Record Book.

Shall add a few things I remember of Grandparents Block.

Both were small people. Grandpa had some golden hair among the gray white. I remember him asbeing blind and his age made him forgetful which seemed strange to me, a little girl. My second mother toldme that when he still lived in Poland, he would go to market with his basket over his arm skating to themarket place, that is in winter. In summer he would go by boat. The grandparents lived near the Weichsel(Vistual) River. I was told that he went to Russia pushing a wheelbarrow. That must have been when he wentfrom Prussia to Russia before he was married.

Grandma was small and humpbacked. Mother told us she had had a bad fall when she was small andthe result was a crippled back. I was always considered small for my age, but when I was twelve years old, Iwas taller than Grandma. She was very kind and lived a life close to the Lord Jesus. Although she was notstrong, she was always ready to help wherever she could. Her name was Susanna Unrau, a daughter ofTobias Unrau. She had a cousin who lived near Goessel, Kansas and I was told that this was her only cousinshe had. We do not know anything more of her parents or the family from which she came. Her relativeschanged their name from Unrau to Unruh. Unrau reminds us that she was of Dutch descent. Unruh is theGerman translation of that name.

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Record of the Henry Foote Family on Maternal Side.

Of the Grandparents of Eva and Pauline nee Block Foote we have the following information:Their Grandfather Heinrich Block lived in a village near Graudenz, Pommern, Prussia. His wife was

Aganetha Janzen. He died in 1825 and she in 1829. We know of only one son they had who was Heinrich thefather of Evan and Paulina. The following record begins with their Father Heinrich Block and his family.

Name Birthday Birth-place Date of Baptism

Who Baptized ChurchAffiliation

Death

HeinrichBlock

Feb. 11,1813

Graudenz,Pommern,Prussia

May 21, 1891 CorneliusWedel

Hillsboro,Kansas M.B.Church

Oct. 10,1901

KatharinaBuller-Block

July 25, 1818 June 21,1854

Children of First Marriage:

Heinrich H.Block

Dec. 15,1844

Prussia Palm Sunday1881

Jacob A.Wiebe

Hillsboro, Kan.Gnadenau,K.M.B. Church

Mar. 10,1930

HelenaBlock Dec. 7, 1846 Prussia April 24,1881 Abr.Schellenberg Hillsboro,Kansas, M.B.Church

Dec. 12,1933

AganethaBlock

Dec. 27,1849

Prussia 1887 David Dick Hillsboro,Kansas, M.B.Church

Feb. 2,1926

David BlockI

Sept. 21,1851

Prussia May 25,1861

SecondMarriage:

SusannaUnrau-Block

Aug. 12,1828

April 24,1881

AbrahamSchellenberg

Hillsboro,Kansas, M.B.

Church

Nov. 21,1904

Children of Second Marriage:

Maria Block March 31,1856

Poland June 30,1858

Peter H.Block

March 19,1857

Poland Palm Sunday,1881

Jacob A.Wiebe

Hillsboro, Ks.,GnadenauK.M.B. Church

Nov. 5,1932

Anna Block Sept. 20,1860

Poland Apr. 24, 1881 AbrahamSchellenberg

Hillsboro, Ks.,M.B. Church

Mar. 16,1934

John Block May 29,1863

Poland Apr. 24, 1881 AbrahamSchellenberg


Sept. 6,1939

Eva Block Oct. 16,

1865

Poland Apr. 24, 1881 Abraham

Schellenberg

Hillsboro, Ks.,

M.B. Church

Aug. 19,

1903PaulinaBlock

Mar. 12,1868

Poland May 21, 1891 CorneliusWedel


Nov. 10,1919

David BlockII

Aug. 31,1869

Poland Oct. 12,1869

The family emigrated from Prussia to Poland in 1853. In the fall of 1872 they moved to Russiawhere they lived until May 31, 1873 when they started out for the United States of America and reachedFlorence Kansas, July 17, 1875. The parents made their home at Hillsboro, Kansas the rest of their life.


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The Family Tree of the Henry Foote Family

Name Birthday Place of Birth

Date ofBaptism

ChurchAffiliation

Who Baptized Date ofDeath

Henry Foote Dec. 4, 1863 RussianPoland

Oct. 1885 Marion, Kas.M.B. Church

Jacob Ehrlich June 3,1951

Eva Block-

Foote

Oct. 16,

1865

Russian

Poland

Apr. 24,

1881

Hillsboro,

Kansas, M.B.Church

Abraham

Schellenberg

Aug. 19,

1903

Children:

Susie Foote Feb. 2, 1889 Marion,Kansas

Nov. 4,1891

Henry I.Foote

Sept. 24,1890

Marion,Kansas

Dec. 30,1890

PaulinaFoote

Nov. 13,1891

Marion,Kansas

Aug. 7, 1910 Corn, Okla.M.B. Church

AbrahamRichert

Anna Foote Dec. 14,1893

Marion,Kansas

Aug. 7, 1910 Corn, Okla.M.B. Church

AbrahamRichert

Lena Foote Nov. 9, 1895 Marion,

Kansas

Nov. 9,

1895Eva Foote June 12,

1897Marion,Kansas

Sept. 15,1912

Hillsboro,Kansas, M.B.Church

Peter P.Rempel

Albert Foote July 12, 1900 Aulne,Kansas

Aug. 20,1916

Bessie, Okla.,M.B. Church

Jacob Reimer

Henry II.Foote

Sept. 25,1902

Aulne,Kansas

May 13,1917

Bessie, Okla.,M.B. Church

Jacob Reimer May 25,1921

Father Footes second marriage:

PaulinaBlock

Mar. 12,1868

RussianPoland

May 24,1891

Hillsboro,Kansas M.B.Church

CorneliusWedel

Nov. 10,1919

Children by second marriage:Peter Foote June 22,

1905Aulne,Kansas

July 14, 1918 Bessie, Okla.M.B. Church

Jacob Reimer Jan. 3,1927

Lydia Foote Aug. 24,1908

Bessie,Oklahoma

July 12, 1924 Bessie, Okla.M.B. Church

Henry D.Wiebe

Martha Foote Nov. 1, 1910 Bessie,Oklahoma

Aug. 29,1926

Bessie, Okla.M.B. Church

J.J. Kroeker

ManualFoote

Dec. 2, 1913 Bessie,Oklahoma

Aug. 29,1926


J.J. Kroeker

Marriages of Father Foote:The fist marriage was to Eva Block on Oct. 10, 1886. This union was of 16 years, 10 mo. and 9 days

duration. She died in an accident when the parents were on their way home from town. The horses ran away.

Mother fell from the spring wagon and broke her neck.The second marriage was to Paulina Block, youngest sister of Eva, on April 18, 1904. She died of

cancer. Duration of this union was 15 years, 7 months and 2 days.The third union was with Anna Funk-Bartel-Johnson. Father was her third husband. She had ten

children of her own living, eleven stepchildren in the Johnson family and nine stepchildren in the Footefamily, in all thirty children. The parents were married in March, 1921. She died of a stroke June 10 1948.This union consisted of 27 years and 3 months.


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Family Branch of Otto and Anna Foote-Miller

Name Birthday Birth Place Date of Baptism

WhoBaptized

ChurchAffiliation

WeddingDate

Otto Miller June 19,1893

RussianPoland

May 31,1914

JacobReimer


Jan. 6, 1918

Anna Foote-Miller Dec. 14,1893 Marion,Kansas Aug. 7, 1910 AbrahamRichert Corn, Okla.M.B. Church Jan. 6, 1918

Children:

HerbertMiller

Sept. 11,1919

Bessie, Okla. June 4, 1950 ElmoWarkentin


Feb. 21,1943

EstherMiller-Haley

Mar. 20,1922

Bessie, Okla. May 6, 1950Immersion

MiltonHalcomb

Kingsdown,Kansas, 1st.Presbyterian

Nov. 10,1946

WalterMiller

July 18, 1926 Bessie, Okla. Oct. 10,1948

H.W. Stigler Clinton,Okla., 1st

Baptist

Mar. 8, 1952

Alfred

HeinrichMiller

Jan. 23, 1931 Bessie, Okla. May 26,

1946

Henry R.

Wiens

Bessie, Okla.

M.B. Church

Mr. 14, 1952

RaymondLee Miller

Apr. 1, 1933 Bessie, Okla. May 26,1946

Henry R.Wiens


Sept. 2, 1956

Loyd WillieMiller

Mar. 10,1936

Bessie, Okla. June 4, 1950 ElmoWarkentin


Dec. 26,1954

Married Children and their families:

HerbertMiller

Feb. 21,1943

Clara EvelynFrey-Miller

Oct. 10,1921

Cordell,Okla.

June 4, 1950 ElmoWarkentin


Feb. 21,1943

Gary Keith

Miller

Oct. 29,

1948

Corn, Okla.

EstherMiller-Haley

Mar. 20,1922

Nov. 10,1946

WendellStevensHaley

Jan. 27, 1924 Kingsdown,Kansas

Jan. 17, 1937 R.J.Wohlgemuth

Kingsdown,Kansas, 1st

Presbyterian

Nov. 10,1946

Carla JoHaley

July 19, 1956 Kansas Adopted:Oct. 12,1956

Charla Sue

Haley

July 19, 1956 Kansas Adopted:

Oct. 12,1956

WalterMiller

Mar. 8, 1952

Thirsa AnnHardin-Miller

Oct. 3, 1930 Sayre, Okla. June 15,1941

H.W. Stigler Clinton,Okla. 1st

Baptist

Mar. 8, 1952

Steven DaleMiller

June 28,1954

Clinton,Okla.


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Family Branch of Otto and Anna Foote-Miller. Continued:


Date ofBaptism

WhoBaptized

ChurchAffiliation

WeddingDate

Sharon KayMiller

Feb. 14,1957

Elk City,Okla.

AlfredHeinrichMiller

Mar. 14,1952

Leota JeanDavis-Miller

Aug. 11,1933

Kingsdown,Kansas

Apr. 23,1954

ElmoWarkentin


Mar. 14,1952

RodneyDean Miller

July 12, 153 Houston,Texas

Rebecca AnnMiller

Nov. 17,1955

Cordell,Okla.

RaymondLee Miller

Sept. 2, 1956

HerwannaJanzen-Miller

July 14, 1932 Cloud Chief,Okla.

Sept. 23,1945

John K.Warkentin

Corn, Okla.M.B. Church

Sept. 2, 1956

Loyd WillieMiller

Mar. 10,1936

Dec. 28,1954

Helen JaneBartel-Miller

Oct. 9, 1937 Cordell,Okla.

June 15,1947

John K.Siemens


Dec. 28,1954

Rickie Don

Miller

Sept. 23,

1957

Cordell,

Okla.


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Family Branch of Aaron William and Eva Foote-Krause. * Indicates additions in pen


ChurchAffiliation

WhoBaptized

WeddingDate

Eva Foote-Krause

June 12,1897

Marion,Kansas

Sept. 15,1912

Hillsboro,Kansas M.B.

Church

Peter P.Rempel

July 14, 1927

AaronWilliamKrause

Oct. 11,1896

PeachSprings,Butler Co.,Kansas

Nov. 7, 1909 Hooker,Okla.K.M.B.Church

Jacob Fast July 14, 1927

Children:

JamesHaroldKrause

Apr. 3, 1931 Kansas City,Kansas

Aug. 15,1943

Enid, Okla.City M.B.Church

Peter C.Grunau

Aug. 9, 1953

Lois AnnKrause

Dec. 22,1938

Wichita,Kansas

June 5, 1949 Enid, Okla.City M.B.Church

Jack Adrian

MarriedChildren andtheirChildren:

JamesHaroldKrause

*April 3d1931

*Kansas CityKansas

*Aug 15th

1943*M BChurch Enid,Okla

*Peter CGrunah

Aug. 9, 1953

Betty JeanMiller-Krause

Sept. 10,1932

Route 2,Enid, Okla.

Easter 1944 FirstMethodistChurch,Enid, Okla.

Aug. 9, 1953

James

WinstonKrause

July 18, 1955 Oklahoma

City,Oklahoma

GregoryDean Krause

Sept. 9, 1957 OklahomaCity, Okla.

*MichaelAlan

*Sept. 61959

*St. LouisMo.

*Lois AnnKrause

*Dec 221938

*Married to

*Robert

WayneDecker

*Jan 2 1937

*Paul Wayne *July 141967

*OklahomaCity St.AnthonyHospital


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The Albert Foote Family Branch. *Indicates additions in pen


ChurchAffiliation

MinisterWhoBaptized

MarriageDate

Albert Foote July 12, 1900 Aulne,

Kansas

Aug. 20,

1916

Bessie, Okla.

M.B. Church

Jacob

Reimer

Aug. 3, 1927

ElisabethJanz-Foote

Feb. 3, 1899 Hillsboro,Kansas

June 20,1920

Herbert,Sask. M.B.Church

HeinrichNeufeld

Aug. 3, 1927

Children:

LeliaVirginiaFoote

Aug. 5, 1931 Kansas City,Mo.

April 1, 1945 Kansas CityChelseaBaptist

Rev. R.O.McCray

WilburLawrenceFoote

July 23, 1933 Inman,Kansas

April 1, 1945 Kansas CityChelseaBaptist

Rev. R.O.McCray

Sept. 24,1955

Virginia An

Bohlen-Foote

Dec. 25,

1933

Akron, Iowa Aug. 15,

1943

Kansas City

BethanyBaptist

J. Clark

Hensley

Sept. 24,

1955

MarcedaAnn Foote

Mar. 31,1937

Hillsboro,Kansas

Nov. 11,1945

Kansas CityChelseaBaptist

Rev. R.O.McCray

LelandWallaceFoote

July 18, 1939 Hillsboro,Kansas

Nov. 28,1948

Kansas CityChelseaBaptist

David G.House

Priscilla MaeFoote

Nov. 1, 1941 Hillsboro,Kansas

May 2, 1948 Kansas CityChelseaBaptist

David G.House

*Married

Children andtheirChildren:

WilburLawrenceFoote

Virginia AnnBohlen-Foote

*David LorinFoote

*Nov. 22,1957

*Portland,Oregon


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Family Branch of Manuel and Mathilda Dyck-Foote. *Indicates additions in pencil


Date ofBaptism

WhoBaptized

ChurchAffiliation

MarriageDate

Parents:

ManuelFoote

Dec. 2, 1913 Bessie, Okla. Aug. 29,1926

J.J. Kr*ker Bessie, Okla.M.B.Church

Dec. 22,1940

MathildaDyck-Foote Ja. 24, 1916 Corn, Okla. May 19,1929 J.J. Wiebe Corn, Okla.M.B. Church Dec. 22,1940

Children:

HowardEugeneFoote

Nov. 13,1949

Bessie, Okla.

Diane GraceFoote

Dec. 21,1955

Bessie, Okla.

*Mary LouisFoote

No. 1 1942Deceased

Bessie, Okla.

Ordinations.

* Umlaut added in pen


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Name Date By WhomOrdained

What Kind ofMinistry

Church and Place

Paulina Foote Aug. 12, 1922 Jacob Reimer AndJohann Foth

Missionary Bessie, Okla., M.B.Church

Albert Foote 1950 David House Licensed Preacher Kansas City,

Chelsea BaptistChurch

Wilbur LawrenceFoote

Dec. 25, Jan. 1,1955

Gale TushAndA.E. Janzen

Minister of theGospel

Kansas City,Springvale BibleChurch

Members of the Family Who Have Educational Degrees. * Indicates additions in pen


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Name Year of Graduation Name of School Degree

Paulina Foote 1925 Tabor College,Hillsboro, Kansas

Bachelor of Arts

1932 Central BaptistTheological Seminary,Kansas City, Kansas

Bachelor of Theology

Albert Foote 1928 Tabor College,Hillsboro, Kansas Bachelor of Arts

1929 Kansas State University,Lawrence, Kansas

Master of Arts

Lelia Virginia Foote 1954 Northwestern BibleSchool, Minneapolis,Minn.

Bachelor of Arts

Wilbur Lawrence Foote 1955 Northwestern BibleSchool, Minneapolis,Minn.

Bachelor of Arts

Lydia Foote 1941 Southwestern StateCollege, Weatherford,

Oklahoma

Bachelor of Science

*1959 *Master of Arts

Martha Foote 1950 Southwestern StateCollege, Weatherford,Oklahoma

Bachelor of Arts

Manuel Foote 1954 Tabor College,Hillsboro, Kansas

Bachelor of Theology

1940 Tabor College,Hillsboro, Kansas

Associate of Arts

Aaron William Krause 1930 Kansas City College of Osteopathy and SurgeryKansas City, Mo.

Doctor of Osteopathy

James Harold Krause 1953 Philipps University Enid,Oklahoma

Bachelor of Arts

Betty Jean Krause 1955 Philipps University Enid,Oklahoma

Bachelor of Arts

American Society ofClinical Pathologists,University Hospital,Oklahoma City

Lelia Virginia Foote 1955 Minneapolis College of Music

Bachelor of Music

*James Harold Krause June 1 1958 Oklahoma University,Oklahoma City, Okla.

Doctor of Medicine

Occupations of the Henry Foote Family.


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Father Henry Foote was a farmer. Early in his life after he was of age he bought an eighty acre farm.He borrowed a considerable sum to buy it. The debt became a burden to him. Since the land had some goodlimestone suitable for building purposes, he opened a stone quarry and worked very hard. By moving andlifting heavy stones with a crowbar he injured himself. He claimed that his ulcerated leg was the result oflifting too heavy stones. He had a leg with open wounds nearly all the time the rest of his life. In spite of the

fact that he worked so hard, his debt was pressing him heavily. He turned to the Lord, asked Him to forgivehi from going into debt so deep and prayed that if [He] would help him to get rid of this burden, he was neveragain go into a large debt. The Lord heard his prayer and granted his desire. Later he admonished hischildren not to go into heavy debts for that was sin.

The Lord blessed Father Foote materially. In his old age he owned 720 acres of good land which wasall debt free.

Occupations of the Henry Foote Descendants.


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Name Occupation Remarks

Father Henry Foote Farming and Quarrying of stone Besides farming he quarried stone for severalyears

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Paulina Foote Teacher in Rural Schools.

Missionary to China 1922-1950Retired and Pensioned 1950 etc.

Taught rural schools in Okla. For 7 terms.

Spent 1922-1929 in Fukien, China. Had anextended furlough 1929-34. Spent 1934-46 inShantung, Honan, Kansu, Shensi, Szechuan,China. Did deputation work 1947-49. Retiredand taken care of in the M.B. Home for theAged, Corn, Okla.

Anna Foote-Millerand Otto MillerFamily

Farming They have lived on the same farm at Bessie,Okla. since their marriage in Jan. 1918

Miller Children:

Herbert Miller Farming and Carpentry work Farming was supplemented by carpentry donein spare time

Esther Miller-Haleyand Wendell Haley

Farming and Managing of GrainElevators

In the beginning they farmed and worked inan elevator at Kingsdown, Kas. Later movedto Ashland, Kas. where he managed largerelevators and did not farm.

Walter Miller Farmer and Storekeeper In addition to farming he worked in a TG&YStore at Cordell, Okla. Later was transferredto a larger store at Elk City, Okla. Andpromoted to assistant manager of the store.

Alfred HeinrichMiller

Farming supplemented by work ina store and by operation abulldozer

The bulldozer was used in Soil ConservationProjects. Worked in a store only a short time

Raymond Lee Miller Farming, working out and pursuing

a medi-course

Works for farmers, takes jobs in Oklahoma

City and attends night classes in theUniversity

Loyd Willie Miller Farming and clerking in anelectrical appliance store

Since farm machinery is so expensive, farmerstake up work to supplement farming

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Eva Foote-Krauseand Aaron Wm.Krause

Physician Aaron has a Doctor of Osteopathy degree.Started practice at Inman, Kas. Later moved toEnid, Okla.

Krause Children:

James Harold Krause Is a medical student in a University inOklahoma City. Is to graduate in 1958

Mrs. James Krause Medical Technician in Hospital

LaboratoryLois Ann Krause Student in Tabor College at Hillsboro, Kas.

Occupations.


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Name Occupation Remarks

Albert Foote Teacher, Newspaper Carrier,Turkey Raiser, Manufactor ofPacking Paper

Taught in high schools, TaborCollege and Kansas City BibleCollege, Has a Kansas City routeof about 1000 subscribers. For

about 6 yrs. Raised from 10,000 to20,000 turkeys a yr. After that hegot a paper shredder to producepacking paper.

Albert Foote Children-

Lelia Virginia Foote Teacher in Band Music in HighSchool

Wilbur Lawrence Foote Missionary for Youth for Christ Organizes and supervises BibleClubs in high schools in southernCalifornia

Marceda Ann Foote Bookkeeper Keeps book in a clinic for four doctors in Kansas City

Leland Wallace FootePriscilla Mae Foote

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Lydia Foote Teacher Between 1934-44 taught 7 yrs. Ingrade schools. During spring termof 1940 and all of 41 was studentteacher of Zoology & AgriculturalBotany at SW. State CollegeWeathorford, Okla. Taught Gen.Sciecne, Math., Biology,Chemistry, Home Economics,Physical Ed., and Art in junior and

senior high schools 1944-Martha Foote Teacher Taught rural schools 1938-47.

Since 1952 taught Mathematics,Biology, Gen. Science and SundaySchool Pedagogy at the CornBible Academy at Corn, Okla.

Manuel Foote Farming and Electrical Wireing Farming was supplemented withelectrical wireing.Active in church work. Has beenmember of the church council andis member of the Corn M.B.Gospel Team and is Sunday

School Superintendant

Family Tree of Henry Foote

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