Preservings 11 (1997) - Plett Foundation
Preservings 11 (1997) - Plett Foundation
Preservings 11 (1997) - Plett Foundation
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Crown Patent for NE4-7-6E dated January 30, 1882,<br />
issued in the name of Peter Neufeld.<br />
and Jakob and Heinrich at $945 and $975.<br />
The three farmers have between <strong>11</strong> and 18<br />
cattle, Peter has 4 horses and an ox and 21<br />
sheep.<br />
In 1896 the following lands are assessed<br />
to the Neufeld family: Jakob NE4-7-6E,<br />
Heinrich SW4-7-6E, and Peter SE and SE 4-<br />
7-6E. Jakob is still farming in a big way with<br />
5 horses, 2 oxen, 21 cattle and 41 sheep.<br />
Brother Heinrich seems to be concentrating<br />
in his dairy with 20 head of cattle. Peter<br />
seems to have retired and owns only 1 horse<br />
and 2 cows.<br />
Susanna Bergen Neufeld (1825-87).<br />
The journal of Maria Stoesz Klassen<br />
(1823-97) is a valuable source of information<br />
for various events in the Ebenfeld area.<br />
Her diary has also been identified as the earliest<br />
journal by a East Reserve women which<br />
is still extant today. Since two of her daughters<br />
married two of the Peter Neufeld sons,<br />
Heinrich and Peter, it was natural that she<br />
would refer to the Neufeld family from time<br />
to time.<br />
<strong>Preservings</strong><br />
Heinrich B. Neufeld and Sarah Klassen Neufeld and children, circa 1905. L. to r. children Peter, Henry and<br />
Sarah. Sarah Klassen Neufeld’s mother, Maria Stoesz Klassen, kept the first known diary of an East Reserve<br />
women—see <strong>Preservings</strong>, No. 10, June <strong>1997</strong>, Part One, page <strong>11</strong>.<br />
“At 5 o’clock Neufeld’s Heinrich came<br />
and said we should go to their place, his dear<br />
Mother is dead. He went to Pastwa to<br />
Penners. We went there and found her lying<br />
in her bed dead. She had been sick for 2<br />
hours....November - Tuesday the 1rst of November<br />
1887. On the first, Mrs. Neufeld was<br />
taken to her resting place at the cemetery.<br />
Mrs. H. Berg and I put the last dress attire<br />
on her”—Historical Sketches, pages 121-122.<br />
Ebenfeld to Sommerfeld, 1905.<br />
Peter D. Neufeld married for the second<br />
66<br />
time to Anna Hildebrandt (1836-1927),<br />
widow B. Friesen.<br />
Klaas J. B. Reimer has written that Peter<br />
Neufeld moved to the West Reserve to live<br />
in the village of Sommerfeld in 1905. The<br />
move may have been inspired by the fact that<br />
Peter Bergen, Peter’s one-time brother-in-law<br />
lived there.<br />
Peter and Anna Neufeld lived here until<br />
1915 at which time they moved back to the<br />
Steinbach area to live in a small house on<br />
the farm of his children, the Gerhard Ungers,<br />
Felsenton, south of Steinbach.<br />
Heinrich B. Neufeld farm? Circa 1902. L. to r: Jakob B. Neufeld family; Heinrich B. Neufelds with Sarah, and Peter Neufeld, son of Jakob B. Neufeld holding the horses.<br />
The photo may have been taken on the farm of Heinrich B. Neufeld, 1 1/2 miles west of Steinbach on the present-day P.T.H. 52.
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