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Wallace, Wallace Co., Kansas

Includes the following communities
Wallace, Wallace Co., Kansas
History

The 1880 Census records a handful of Volga Germans living in Wallace, but they were there working on the railroad. Volga Germans from Ellis and Rush Counties moved west to settle in Wallace permanently beginning in 1922.

Volga German Congregations

St. Peters Catholic Parish

Sources

- Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 60.

Resources

Fort Wallace Cemetery (findagrave.com)

External Links

Wallace, Kansas (Wikipedia)

The following Volga German families settled in and around Wallace:
Befort
from
Katharinenstadt
Depperschmidt
Goetz
from
Herzog
Korbe
from
Mariental
Leiker
from
Ober-Monjou
Pfeifer
from
Pfeifer
Sauer
from
Zug
Schmidt
Stecklein
from
Zug
Urban
from
Kamenka

Colonies

38.912556, -101.592431

Volga Colonies

Migrated From