Jacob KIRSCHENMANN

                   Born in Neudorf, Tiraspol, PRI, Odessa, Ukraine, Russia.  A farmer in the
Odessa region when the fear of the Russian Czar's came upon them.  Many of the
German immigrants who lived in Russia for nearly a century, took their
belongings and emigrated to America. We are fortunate that our ancestors took a
great risk emigrating from Russia to America.  Had they not had the courage to
do so many of us could be living in Russia and under a communist government.
Most of those who did not leave Russia by the time of World War II were sent to
Siberian labor camps. In 1893 Jacob and the family of 5 children emigrated to
America.  Somehow they emigrated to Liverpool, England where on 13 Oct 1893 they
boarded the S.S. Toronto, 1880 Dominion Line and arrived in Montreal/Quebec,
Canada 26 Oct 1893. 13 day voyage from Liverpool, England-Master Davis. They travelled to Menno, Hutchinson County, South Dakota
where they made their home with other German people for the winter. Six months
after their arrival in Menno, August was born.  In the spring of 1894 they
travelled by wagon to one and one half miles northeast of Hosmer, Edmunds
County, South Dakota, where they homesteaded.  They build a sod house and
barns. Here is where the other nine chilldren were born. Working with sod was
hard work, but a must for the pioneers, for there was no other building material
available.  Children were put to work at a very early age.  It was a slow
process cutting sod into pieces and putting up the walls on the buildings.  The
first building was usually a barn and house all in one. They made wall ovens of
clay, straw and rocks.  They burned twisted hay,  and cow manure.
Picking up cow chips was a daily chore for the childlren. The field work was
done with teams of oxen until later years when they could afford horses.  First
they had the tremendous task of removing the rocks from the land.  Then the sod
had to be broken, after which it was harrowed to break the clods.  All this had
to be done before it could be seeded. Life was never easy.  They had to
develope qualities of courage, determination, and self reliance to withstand
the drought, dust storms, blizzards, prairie fires, grasshoppers that plagued
them, persistent epidemics, low rainfall, lack of trees and the indian
uprisings. Jacob was a very ambitious man, but never became very successful due
to all the hardships he faced.   He was religious and family orientated.  Five
of the fifteen children born to this union are buried  in the homestead garden
(there are no markers).  This is now a cultivated field. Jacobs wife, Christina
suffered and died with gall stones. In 1932 Jacob placed the four unmarried
daughters in the Good Samaritan Home in Arthur, North Dakota.  He retired to
Hosmer, South Dakota and married Sophie Norbach.  Sophie was not capable of
taking care of the domestic economy so the marriage was annuled. 21 Aug 1941
Jacob had a stroke which paralized his left side and he lost his voice.  He was
living with his son August when he died.  He was a member of St. Paul
Congregational Church.
Born in Neudorf, Tiraspol, PRI, Odessa, Ukraine, Russia.  A farmer in the
Odessa region when the fear of the Russian Czar's came upon them.  Many of the
German immigrants who lived in Russia for nearly a century, took their
belongings and emigrated to America. We are fortunate that our ancestors took a
great risk emigrating from Russia to America.  Had they not had the courage to
do so many of us could be living in Russia and under a communist government.
Most of those who did not leave Russia by the time of World War II were sent to
Siberian labor camps. In 1893 Jacob and the family of 5 children emigrated to
America.  Somehow they emigrated to Liverpool, England where on 13 Oct 1893 they
boarded the S.S. Toronto, 1880 Dominion Line and arrived in Montreal/Quebec,
Canada 26 Oct 1893. 13 day voyage from Liverpool, England-Master Davis. They travelled to Menno, Hutchinson County, South Dakota
where they made their home with other German people for the winter. Six months
after their arrival in Menno, August was born.  In the spring of 1894 they
travelled by wagon to one and one half miles northeast of Hosmer, Edmunds
County, South Dakota, where they homesteaded.  They build a sod house and
barns. Here is where the other nine chilldren were born. Working with sod was
hard work, but a must for the pioneers, for there was no other building material
available.  Children were put to work at a very early age.  It was a slow
process cutting sod into pieces and putting up the walls on the buildings.  The
first building was usually a barn and house all in one. They made wall ovens of
clay, straw and rocks.  They burned twisted hay,  and cow manure.
Picking up cow chips was a daily chore for the childlren. The field work was
done with teams of oxen until later years when they could afford horses.  First
they had the tremendous task of removing the rocks from the land.  Then the sod
had to be broken, after which it was harrowed to break the clods.  All this had
to be done before it could be seeded. Life was never easy.  They had to
develope qualities of courage, determination, and self reliance to withstand
the drought, dust storms, blizzards, prairie fires, grasshoppers that plagued
them, persistent epidemics, low rainfall, lack of trees and the indian
uprisings. Jacob was a very ambitious man, but never became very successful due
to all the hardships he faced.   He was religious and family orientated.  Five
of the fifteen children born to this union are buried  in the homestead garden
(there are no markers).  This is now a cultivated field. Jacobs wife, Christina
suffered and died with gall stones. In 1932 Jacob placed the four unmarried
daughters in the Good Samaritan Home in Arthur, North Dakota.  He retired to
Hosmer, South Dakota and married Sophie Norbach.  Sophie was not capable of
taking care of the domestic economy so the marriage was annuled. 21 Aug 1941
Jacob had a stroke which paralized his left side and he lost his voice.  He was
living with his son August when he died.  He was a member of St. Paul
Congregational Church.Born in Neudorf, Tiraspol, PRI, Odessa, Ukraine, Russia.  A farmer in the
Odessa region when the fear of the Russian Czar's came upon them.  Many of the
German immigrants who lived in Russia for nearly a century, took their
belongings and emigrated to America. We are fortunate that our ancestors took a
great risk emigrating from Russia to America.  Had they not had the courage to
do so many of us could be living in Russia and under a communist government.
Most of those who did not leave Russia by the time of World War II were sent to
Siberian labor camps. In 1893 Jacob and the family of 5 children emigrated to
America.  Somehow they emigrated to Liverpool, England where on 13 Oct 1893 they
boarded the S.S. Toronto, 1880 Dominion Line and arrived in Montreal/Quebec,
Canada 26 Oct 1893. 13 day voyage from Liverpool, England-Master Davis. They travelled to Menno, Hutchinson County, South Dakota
where they made their home with other German people for the winter. Six months
after their arrival in Menno, August was born.  In the spring of 1894 they
travelled by wagon to one and one half miles northeast of Hosmer, Edmunds
County, South Dakota, where they homesteaded.  They build a sod house and
barns. Here is where the other nine chilldren were born. Working with sod was
hard work, but a must for the pioneers, for there was no other building material
available.  Children were put to work at a very early age.  It was a slow
process cutting sod into pieces and putting up the walls on the buildings.  The
first building was usually a barn and house all in one. They made wall ovens of
clay, straw and rocks.  They burned twisted hay,  and cow manure.
Picking up cow chips was a daily chore for the childlren. The field work was
done with teams of oxen until later years when they could afford horses.  First
they had the tremendous task of removing the rocks from the land.  Then the sod
had to be broken, after which it was harrowed to break the clods.  All this had
to be done before it could be seeded. Life was never easy.  They had to
develope qualities of courage, determination, and self reliance to withstand
the drought, dust storms, blizzards, prairie fires, grasshoppers that plagued
them, persistent epidemics, low rainfall, lack of trees and the indian
uprisings. Jacob was a very ambitious man, but never became very successful due
to all the hardships he faced.   He was religious and family orientated.  Five
of the fifteen children born to this union are buried  in the homestead garden
(there are no markers).  This is now a cultivated field. Jacobs wife, Christina
suffered and died with gall stones. In 1932 Jacob placed the four unmarried
daughters in the Good Samaritan Home in Arthur, North Dakota.  He retired to
Hosmer, South Dakota and married Sophie Norbach.  Sophie was not capable of
taking care of the domestic economy so the marriage was annuled. 21 Aug 1941
Jacob had a stroke which paralized his left side and he lost his voice.  He was
living with his son August when he died.  He was a member of St. Paul
Congregational Church.