If this site was useful to you, we'd be happy for a small donation. Be sure to enter "MLA donation" in the Comments box.
Esau, Abraham T. (1902-1959)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1959 Nov 26 p. 8
Birth date: 1902 Dec 18
text of obituary:
ABRAHAM T. ESAU
Abraham T. Esau, the oldest child of Gerhard and Anna Toews Esau, was born on a farm near Inman, Kansas, on Dec. 18, 1902, where he spent his early childhood years.
In February 1911 the family moved to Collinsville, Okla. where Abe attended the Eureka public school. In 1919 the family moved back to Kansas and settled on a farm about four miles east of Buhler where Abe became the right hand of father in the work of the farm. There he gave his strength and energy, toiling to rescue the farm which had been bought at First World War prices, which were followed by crop failures and the depression years. He stayed at home on the farm all of his life. He deeply felt the loss of his mother, who passed away on Nov. 30, 1942. In the spring of 1951 he suffered a stroke which impaired his health to the extent that he never aqgain could work as before.