Dakota Dirksens
Photographs from the collection of Sharon Sontag, a descendant of Brotherfield immigrant Abraham J Voth.

Photos taken during the 1880s at the Kidder Gallery in Parker, SD. All members of the Brotherfield Immigrant families.
Cards marked S.D. are post statehood, Nov. 2, 1889.

Susanna and Katherine Unruh.

May be Cornelius Loewen and Anna unruh,
GM #103897. Says Kansas, but compare backdrop detail with next photo.

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Abraham H Dirksen (seated) was killed by lightning 24 September 1886.

1981 Westermeyer Book reports Heinrich Wall's son (seated) was killed at 24 (1889) by a falling bucket while digging a well.

Peter Wall (standing left) died of pneumonia 13 June 1884.

Father Johann Schmidt b1822 and sons Tobias (standing) b1852 and Heinrich b1858.

We do not know the birth years of the two children, but Heinrich Loewen and Helena Born were married 17 December 1876.

May be Jacob Thomas and Elisabeth Adrian whose first child was born in 1888.

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