Those Volga Germans who settled in Greeley came from Frank, Hussenbach, Merkel, Messer, Oberdorf, Pobochnaya, and Schönfeld. Through the years, Volga German immigrants from many other colonies also settled in Greeley and the surrounding area. They settled in “Little Russia” on the east side of town, between the railroad tracks and the sugar factory.
Many Volga German families were employed in the sugar beet industry. As of 1910, there were 3,699 Germans from Russia laboring in the beet fields of Weld County.
The following Volga German families are known to have settled in and around Greeley, Colorado:
Aab from Dönhof
Achziger from Kolb
Adler from Kolb
Alles from Walter
Altenhof from Orlovskaya
Altergott from Dönhof
Amen from Frank
Applehans
Ashenbrenner from Norka
Asmus from Grimm
Bastrom from Frank
Batt from Dietel
Bath from Frank
Bauer from Frank
Bauer from Shcherbakovka
Baumgartner from Anton
Bechtholdt
Becker
Beitz
Bender from Kratzke
Be(h)rens
Bernhardt
Betz from Messer
Binder
Bittel from Wittmann
Blehm from Kratzke
Bollig from Graf
Boos from Ober-Monjou
Borgens from Frank
Boxberger from Kratzke
Brack
Brehm
Bret(t)hauer
Brill from Norka
Brinkman
Brug from Messer
Brungard(t)
Brunner from Erlenbach
Bruntz from Merkel
Buderus from Walter
Burkhardt
Busch
Buxbaum
Buxman from Wiesenmüller
Chrispen from Oberdorf
Dechant from Ober-Monjou
Deer from Michaelsdorf (North Caucasus)
Deer from Norka
Deines from Kratzke
Dietz from Kratzke & Walter
Dinges from Norka
Dinkel from Herzog
Ditter
Dorn from Walter
Dreher from Neu-Ober-Monjou
Dreith from Beideck
Dumler from Grimm
Ebel
Eberhardt
Eckhardt from Frank
Ehrlich from Shcherbakovka
Eichler from Neu-Dönhof
Eichman from Schwab
Eichhorn
Eiring from Eckheim
Eisenach
Elsasser
Erbes from Dönhof
Fabrizius from Kratzke
Fahrenbruch
Feit from Erlenbach
Feuerstein/Firestein from Norka
Fladung from Schönchen
Flath/Floth from Frank
Foos / Foose from Frank
Fox
Frank
Friebus from Fischer
Fritzler
Fromm from Hussenbach
Fuchs
Gasner from Brabander
Geisick/Giesick/Gesick from Walter
Geringer from Lauwe
Gerk from Josefstal
Gettman
Gies
Ginther/Guenther
G(o)etz from Herzog
Grauberger
Greenwald/Greenwalt/Gruenwald
Gross from Merkel
Grosskopf from Frank
Haas
Harding / Hardung / Hartung from Frank
Hartmann
Heberlein from Walter
Heil
Heimbichner / Heimbigner / Heimbegner from Frank
Hein from Frank
Heinlein
Heinze
Heiser
Held
Helzer from Norka
Hemple from Norka
Herbst from Frank
Hergenreder
Hergenreter from Sewald
Hergert from Oberdorf
Herman(n)
Hettinger from Dietel
Hill from Walter
Hilzer from Norka
Hintergardt from Stephan
Hirsch
Hoff
Hofferber from Frank
Hoffman from Langenfeld
Hoffner
Ho(h)nstein
Holzmeister from Pfeifer
Honstein from Norka
Hopp
Horst
Huwa
Jacoby
Jekel from Wiesenmüller
Jurgens
Kaiser
Kammerzel(l) from Frank
Kanzler from Kolb
Karst
Kaufman
Kautz from Dietel
Kechter from Kolb
Kehn
Keil from Katharinental
Keiser from Norka
Kerbs
Kiehn
Kildau from Norka
Kindsfat(h)er/Kindsvater
Kippes from Pfeifer
Kisling from Warenburg
Kisselman from Dönhof
Kissler from Frank
Klaus
Klein
Kloberdanz from Rothammel
Knaub from Merkel
Kniss from Norka
Kobel
Kobobel
Koch
Kohl from Ober-Monjou
Kohler
Koleber from Kratzke
Kraft
Kraus
Krening
Kreutzer from Liebental
Krieger from Norka
Krom from Yagodnaya Polyana
Krum(m) from Kukkus
Kuhn from Herzog
Kurtz
Kuxhausen from Rosenberg
Lahnert
Lambrecht from Pfeifer
Lang from Kamenka
Lapp from Frank
Laubhan from Avilova & Shcherbakovka
Lauer from Rothammel
Lebsack
Lef(f)ler/Loeffler from Dönhof
Leichner
Lenhart/Leonhardt/Lonhardt
Lesser from Frank
Lind from Dönhof
Lofgren
Loos from Marienfeld
Loos from Norka
Lorenz
Lutz from Frank
Mai/May from Kratzke
Manweiler from Rosenberg
Margheim from Merkel
Martin
Maier/Meier/Meyer
Meier from Louis
Meininger from Messer
Meis from Katharinenstadt
Meisinger from Neu-Messer
Michel
Miller
Monheiser / Monhouser
Nafts from Dönhof
Nagel from Norka
Naibauer from Hoffental
Nieberger
Nafts/Nofts
Nuss
Oblander
Oster
Ostermiller from Beideck
Pabst
Pappenheim
Peppler from Hussenbach
Petrie
Pfeifer from Herzog
Pfenning from Norka
Printz
Propp from Hussenbach
Rehn
Reichel
Reichert
Reifschneider
Rein from Konstantinovka
Reinick from Frank
Reiter
Rieb from Nieder-Monjou
Rohn
Rohrig
Rommel
Rosenoff / Rosenow
Roth from Grimm
Roth from Kamenka
Roth from Walter
Rothe from Frank
Ruff
Rupple
Rusch
Rutt
Rutz
S(c)habel
Salzman
Sauer
Savolt from Husaren
Schaaf from Huck
Scha(e)f(f)er
Schaub from Frank
Schauerman / Scheierman
Scheibel
Scheidt from Stahl am Tarlyk
Schell from Sewald
Scheller from Dönhof
Schenfeld from Marienfeld
Schild
Schilling
Schissler from Walter
Schlidt from Norka
Schlotthauer
Schmick
Schmidt
Schmunck from Galka
Schneider
Schnell from Norka
Schnorr
Schoeneman from Norka
Schoenhals/Schanhals
Schott from Grimm
Schreiber from Norka
Schreiner
Schup(p)e
Schwab
Schwabauer
Schwar(t)z
Schwartzkopf
Seder from Norka
Seilbach from Hussenbach
Sell
Sinner
Sitzman/Zitzman from Frank
Speaker
Specht
Stadler from Kamenka
Staley
Steinbach
Steinbecker/Steinbecher
Steinmark
Steinmetz
Steinmiller from Frank
Stencel/Stenzel from Hussenbach
Stoll from Erlenbach
Storms from Brabander
Stromberger from Dönhof
Strausheim from Frank
Strauch from Beideck
Streck
Strecker
Stroh
Stro(h)man from Dietel
Stromberger
Stumpf from Warenburg
Suppes
Thaut/Thout(t)
Thiel
Tittle
Traudt/Troudt
Tribelhorn
Trupp
U(h)rich from Frank
Ulrich
Unrein from Ober-Monjou
Vogel
Volz
Voos
Vorath
Wacker/Walker from Norka
Wagner
Walter(s)
Wambol(d)t
Webb
Webber
Weber from Liebental
Weglin
Weideman
Weidenkeller from Norka
Weimer
Weinbender from Köhler
Weinmeister from Dietel
Weiss
Weitzel
Werner from Susannental
Wertz from Yagodnaya Polyana
Whitman
Widerspahn
Wiegel
Wilhelm from Pobochnaya
Willman(n) from Messer
Winder/Winter
Woith
Wolf(e)
Wunsch from Galka
Yergert from Eckheim
Zeiler
Zeller
Zi(e)gler
Zimmerman(n) from Schönchen
Zink from Marienfeld
Zulauf from Grimm
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- USA Settlement List (Patricia Miller)
Greeley, Colorado (Wikipedia)