Wall, Gerhard A. (1870-1947)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1947 Dec 11 p. 5

Birth date: 1870 May 28

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— Funeral services were held at the Halstead Mennonite church last Friday for Gerh. A. Wall, 77, who passed away at the Halstead hospital on Dec. 3 after being a patient there since last July. The service was conducted by Rev. Loris Habegger, and pall bearers were former pupils of Mr. Wall at the Peaceful school near Moundridge. Mr. Wall was employed by the Century Clothing company in Newton for many years, but had lived at Walters, Okla., from 1930 to 1946.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1947 Dec 18 p. 3

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GERHARD A. WALL

Gerhard A. Wall, son of Gerhard and Maria Reimer Walde, was born May 28, 1870, in Bergansk [sic Berdjansk], Russia, 16 miles form the Azov Sea. His father, a tailor, had died four months before his birth, and his mother died when he was three years old. He was brought to this country at the age of 11, along with three other orphans, ward of the late Rev. and Mrs. Franz Ediger of Hebron, Kansas. He accepted Christ and was baptized at the Hebron Mennonite church at the age of 14. After two years at Teacher's College, Emporia, he taught school for some years at Peaceful School four miles northwest of Moundridge, and also at a school near Goessel, Kansas.

On April 4, 1897, he was married to Mollie A. Ruth, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Ruth of Garden township. To this union were born two children, Ruth Rena and Homer Ray. For a time he had a partnership in the Star Clothing company of Hutchinson, and later in Blackwell, Okla. While in Hutchinson he and his wife became members of the Baptist church. In 1901 he took up a claim in Comanche county, Okla., near Walters, where he and his wife organized the first Sunday School church, and literary society in that community, and where they endured the rigors of pioneer life on the prairies.

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