von der Heiden, Newton, vice-president Mrs. His subject was: 'To Kansas, to Make It Free!' Newly-elected officers of the Native Daughters are Mrs. Hillbrand of the University of Wichita was the featured speaker at the annual meeting of the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas in Topeka January 28, 1944.

Small, secretary, and Miss May Clark, treasurer. Haines was reelected president of the Augusta Historical Society at the annual meeting held January 17, 1944. The chapter now has 117 life members, 120 annual members, and three honorary members. McKinney, Jackson township Miss Kate Langley, Center township, and Mrs. Elected for three-year terms as directors were: C. Gilson and Miss Lucina Jones, historians. The story of the colony was briefly reviewed in dedication notes printed in the Mennonite Weekly Review, of Newton, October 21, November 4 and 11.Īll officers of the Lyon county chapter of the Kansas Historical Society were reelected at its annual membership meeting in the chapter's museum at Emporia December 11, 1943. WHICH GRACIOUSLY GRANTED THE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY SOUGHT AND TO OUR HEAVENLY FATHER TO WHOM WE GIVE ALL THE HONOR THEIR DESCENDANTS ERECTED THIS MONUMENT, OCTOBER, 1943ĪLBRECHT, DIRKS, FLICKNER, GOERING, GRABER, KAUFMAN, KREHBIEL, NACHTIGAL, SCHRAG, SCHROEDER, SCHWARTZ, STRAUSZ, STUCKY, SUTTER, VORAN, WALTNER, WEDEL, ZERGER. RAILROAD COMPANY FOR CHURCH PURPOSES, AND WITH A FEW MORE FAMILIES ARRIVING LATER, SETTLED THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND IN GRATITUDE TO THEM AND TO OUR BELOVED COUNTRY, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 19-21-2W) WHICH WAS DONATED BY THE SANTA FE. IN MEMORY OF THE SWISS MENNONITE CONGREGATION OF KOTOSUFKA, VOLHYNIA, RUSSIA, WHOSE MEMBERS LEFT RUSSIA IN SEARCH OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, SIXTY-TWO FAMILIES SAILING ON THE 'CITY OF RICHMOND.' LANDING IN NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 3, 1874, AND IN OCTOBER ARRIVING ON THIS QUARTER SECTION (S. The stone, approximately three feet wide and nine feet high, stands four miles west of Moundridge near where the Santa Fe railroad erected the immigrant house in 1874. Digitized with permission of the Kansas Historical Society.Īt special ceremonies on October 28, 1943, a stone was dedicated commemorating the immigration of the Kotosufka Mennonite congregation from Russia to Kansas.

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