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Obert, Klara

Klara Obert was born 14 January 1896 in Brabander. She was the 7th of 9 children born to Johann Obert, a school teacher.

From early childhood, Klara was interested in the life, manners, and customs of peasants through their language, folk poetry. After graduating from the Saratov women's high school in 1914, she worked as a teacher in German schools in the Volga region.

Ehler (Grimm)

Tobias Jäger [sic] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in Household No. Gm001 along with son Georg Friedrich (age 38) and grandson Johann Ernst (age 14).

Friedrich Joller [sic] (age 56 in 1816; died in 1826) and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kaneau in Household No. 8 along with sons Johann Ernst (age 50) and Georg Friedrich (age 35). Johann Ernst's sons are recorded there as Friedrich (age 22), Georg (age 19), and Heinrich (age 9). Georg Friedrich's son is recorded in 1834 as Gottlieb (age 2).

Müller (Orlovskaya-3)*

In 1788, Philipp Müller and his wife moved from Meinhard to Ernestinendorf.

Philipp Müller from Orlovskaya and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Ernestinendorf in Household No. Er13.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Müller family among the Volga German colonies.

Hardt (Nieder-Monjou)*

Johann Martin Scharf was born in Biskirchen, west of Giessen, on 15 October 1741, the eldest child of Christian Scharf (born 18 March 1708 in Biskirchen) and Anna Sophia Keyser (born 1717 in Biskirchen). Johann Martin married the widow Catharina Haardt on 15 December 1765. She had a four-year-old daughter named Katharina by the previous marriage to the Haardt.

Katharina [Hardt] (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliott Anna Catharina along with her mother and stepfather Martin Scharf.

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