THE BERRY MEADOW ARCHIVE - Mountain Light School

2. Joseph Kleweno
3. Phillip Kleweno, Jr.
F. Christian Kleweno, Jr., 1883-1959 m. Mollie Ochs, 1887-1959
1. Rachel Kleweno, b. 1903
2. Martha Klewno, b/d. 1905
3. Margarete Kleweno, b/d. 1905
4. Elmer C. Kleweno, 1910-1968
G. Marie Catherine Kleweno, b. 1885 m. Peter H. Green (son of Phillip and Anna Marie [Rothe]
Green)
Eleven children
A & B, 3 rd m. John and Marie Poffenroth (stepchildren), by Anna Marie‟s previous marriage.
1 The J. Peter Brack family from Pobotschnoye/Rosenfeld arrived in the US on the SS City of Montreal,
July 31, 1876. Traveling in the same group was Peter B. Scheuerman/Scheirman who settled in Kansas.
Peter B.s‟ younger brother was Henry B. Scheuerman who immigrated with his family from Yagodnaya
Polyana, Russia in 1888.
2 Research by Victor Kleweno indicates that a Kleweno child died in an accident at the family home in the
early 1890s. According to Victor, “He had chased a cat from behind the kitchen stove and in his
excitement, spilled a large kettle of boiling water upon himself and died within that week from the
scalding.” He was buried where a lilac bush was planted in the protected north side of a sodpatch just
south of the intersection of Lee and Jack Rabbit roads about six miles northwest of Endicott. His mother
may also be buried there and as late as the 1970s a small white post marked the site. Note that an undated
document about Christian Kleweno in the Evelyn Reich Papers, possibly from Victor, contains a
handwritten notation, “Joseph, died as a child scalded, approximately 1886-1891”. Victor also said that
his Kleweno grandfather kept an old black suitcase in the closet for years which they were never allowed
to open. He was later told that it contained the bones of his grandmother who had died in Kansas not long
after they arrived from Russia. His grandfather carried them around for years until he buried them in the
Endicott cemetery before he relocated to Minnesota.
I. John Kleweno, b. 1846 m. Catherine, b. 1847
A. Peter, b. 1871 in Russia
B. Conrad, b. 1877 in Russia
C. Catherine, b. 1879 in Kansas
D. George, b. 1890 in Oregon
E. Elizabeth, b. 1884 in Washington
F. Anna, b. 1885 in Washington
G. Harry, born 1880 in Washington
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