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Yontz, David (1873-1958)
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It was among these groups that the Yontzon family found themselves in Russia. These German Mennonites, in the 20 years that followed, were blessed of God and their labor rewarded. Nevertheless, this was observed by the government and the bonds of religious freedom became tighter. Due to these trying circumstances in 1874 Henry Yontzon and wife decided to bring part of their family to America. An undertaking of this sort involved a lot of expense and to minimize the cost when applying for passport, Yontzon was shortened to Yontz, as a tax was levied on each letter. |
It was among these groups that the Yontzon family found themselves in Russia. These German Mennonites, in the 20 years that followed, were blessed of God and their labor rewarded. Nevertheless, this was observed by the government and the bonds of religious freedom became tighter. Due to these trying circumstances in 1874 Henry Yontzon and wife decided to bring part of their family to America. An undertaking of this sort involved a lot of expense and to minimize the cost when applying for passport, Yontzon was shortened to Yontz, as a tax was levied on each letter. |
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| + | David, being three years of age, remembered their voyage, especially the sickness, death and burial of a sister at sea. |
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| + | At Belleville, Pa. the Mennonites helped them to establish their first home in this strange land. |
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| + | Three years later his mother died and within a short time his father took David and youngest child Suzanne to Marion, D. D., here establishing a claim for a homestead. His father remarried, and David remained at home for a number of years and always held fond memories of his step-mother and step-brothers, buy the name of Lutke. |
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| + | An older brother Andrew died not go with the family to South Dakota but came to Indiana. So as a young man David came to Topeka to make his home with him. It was here that he met and married Emma Yoder, daughter of levi and martha Honderich Yoder, on Feb. 8, 1898. They were the first couople to be married in the Clinton |
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Revision as of 10:28, 24 August 2011
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1958 Jan 23 p. 3
Birth date: 1873
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1958 Jan 30 p. 8
text of obituary:
DAVID YONTZ
In the early years of the 1850's a group of Mennonite families in Germany left their homeland to settle in South Russia upon an invitation of the Russian Government. They settled near Warsaw, Poland to put under cultivation a large area of wasteland.
It was among these groups that the Yontzon family found themselves in Russia. These German Mennonites, in the 20 years that followed, were blessed of God and their labor rewarded. Nevertheless, this was observed by the government and the bonds of religious freedom became tighter. Due to these trying circumstances in 1874 Henry Yontzon and wife decided to bring part of their family to America. An undertaking of this sort involved a lot of expense and to minimize the cost when applying for passport, Yontzon was shortened to Yontz, as a tax was levied on each letter.
David, being three years of age, remembered their voyage, especially the sickness, death and burial of a sister at sea.
At Belleville, Pa. the Mennonites helped them to establish their first home in this strange land.
Three years later his mother died and within a short time his father took David and youngest child Suzanne to Marion, D. D., here establishing a claim for a homestead. His father remarried, and David remained at home for a number of years and always held fond memories of his step-mother and step-brothers, buy the name of Lutke.
An older brother Andrew died not go with the family to South Dakota but came to Indiana. So as a young man David came to Topeka to make his home with him. It was here that he met and married Emma Yoder, daughter of levi and martha Honderich Yoder, on Feb. 8, 1898. They were the first couople to be married in the Clinton
