From: Krasna, Bessarabia
13 November 1929

Dear Editor Brendel:

The soil has had enough moisture and the winter crop looks wonderful. Let us hope that the weather remains nice.

An accident happened recently when Erasmus Mathias Ruscheinsky wanted to deliver a load of barley to Beresina. As he came to the ditch, his horses began to run throwing him off the wagon. The rear wheel went over his chest. Thank God the ditch was filled with mud; otherwise he would have been dead on the spot. The following driver picked him up and brought him home, then the doctor was called. Unfortunately, the poor man passed away on October 6 leaving his wife and a little child, brothers and sisters. His wife is the daughter of Narzisius Kuss. This message is to their friends in America.

Yesterday, Martin Weber, age 70, died leaving his wife, children and grandchildren. May he rest in peace!

Weddings last week: Peter, son of Joseph Wagner and Ermelina, daughter of Johannes Heinz. – Johannes, son of Joseph Gedak and Ida, daughter of Isidor Leinz. – Bernhard N. Leinz and Emerentiana, daughter of Rudolf Nagel. – Bernhard, son of Anton Bunikowsky and Agata, daughter of Philipp Materi. – Wendelin Mass from Emmental and Agnesia, daughter of Wendelin Ternes. These marriages took place on November 5. The following were married November 12: Reinhold, son of Jakob Koch and Bertha, daughter of Josef Dressler. – Johannes, son of the late Blasius Kopp and Erena, daughter of Korbinian Leinz. Much luck to all these young people.

We stopped at the lower end, so now we continue with the back of the village on the creek side. The back village is still called by former native names of Sampasui or City Moscow.

• 79. Not mentioned, which should be next in sequence. (*Translator)
• 80. Anton Schlick and wife from Emmental.
• 81. Fridolin Arnold and wife Elisabetha, daughter of the late Johannes Schaefer.
• 82. Anton Schwahn and wife Margarethe.
• 83. Adolf Dirk and wife Semfrosa nee Boot.
• 84. Jakob Moldenhauer and wife Angelina, daughter of the late Franz Seifert.
• 85. Widow Katharina Schwalje.
• 86. Johannes Herrschaft and wife E., daughter of August Seifert.
• 87. Widow Katharina Birst.
• 88. Wendelin Riehl and wife, daughter of the late Peter Dirk and his oldest son Peter and wife Teresia, daughter of Leopold Seifert.
• 89. Widow Anna Mass.
• 90. Widow Margarethe Spitznagel.
• 91. Wendelin Kuntz and wife Emerantiana, daughter of Rudolf Mueller [Müller].

The first five houses have been here since before the war. The lots were given to the landless in 1924 and the people built sod houses encased in clay (Semljanka). Now we continue to the lower end in the direction of the forest.

• 92. Widow of the late Kasimir Herrschaft, Katharina, daughter of Johannes Eckert.
• 93. Heinrich Winter and wife Margarethe, daughter of the late Georg Bachmeier.
• 94. Josef Boot and wife Katharina, daughter of the late Joseph Wolf and his mother Katharina nee Bugolowsky.
• 95. Widow of Zachaeus [Zachäus] Harsche.
• 96. Deobald Nagel and wife Gertrude, daughter of the late Peter Kuss.
• 97. Leopold Seifert and wife Ludwina, daughter of the late Martin Weber.
• 98. Amalia Ercker.
• 99. Oswald Schlick and wife Viktoria, daughter of Johannes Kuntz and his mother Anna Maria nee Kuss.
• 100. Widow Juliana nee Bunikowski, widow Mariana nee Moldenhauer, Gregor and wife Amelia nee Schwalje. Alex and wife Sofia nee Wagner. All these make up the Meer family. Also there are Georg Welter and wife Monika nee Meer.
• 101. Joseph Wuitschik and wife Helena, daughter of Gottfried Bugolowsky.
• 102. House of Adam Ternes, vacant for a year.
• 103. Samuel and wife Rufina, daughter of Pius Tischler.
• 104. Widow Marianna Fleckenstein.
• 105. Johannes Kahl (vacant homestead).
• 106. Gottlieb Haag and wife Barbara, daughter of Peter Volk.
• 107. Oswald Ternes and wife Marianna nee Dirk from Emmental.
• 108. Mathias Ternes and wife Faustina, daughter of Max Ternes.
• 109. Widow Margarete Menges and her son-in-law Bernhardt Leinz.
• 110. Peter Krenzel and wife Ottilia nee Speicher, Johannes Paul and wife Rufina nee Kuss are renters there.
• 111. Michael Winter and wife Katharina nee Nagel.
• 112. Kasper Kuss and wife Paulina nee Engel from Emmental.
• 113. Peter Volk Jr. with wife Monika, daughter of Kasimir Leinz and Magdalena, widow of Kasimir Leinz.
• 114. Maximilian Dirk and wife Klementina, daughter of the late Philipp Hein.

Now we reached the alley. The large cross is still in place.

(To be continued)

Joseph Braun