Grandpa’s siblings 3

The fourth child born into the Peter P and Margaretha Epp Buller family—after Peter, Margaretha, and Katharina—was Benjamin, who was born 5 July 1897. The name Benjamin was not common for our family, but Peter P’s father Peter D had a brother named Benjamin (in other words, Peter P’s uncle), which may have been the inspiration for naming this son Benjamin.

Benjamin was baptized 20 May 1918 at Bethesda Mennonite Church and married Anna Regier on 3 January 1924. Like his older sister Katharina, he was baptized and married by Heinrich H. Epp of the Bethesda Mennonite Church.

Benjamin and Anna raised seven children: four girls and three boys. Those of us who grew up in the Lushton-Henderson area may remember several of Benjamin and Anna’s children as adults: John B. (and Susie) Buller, who lived north and west of Grandpa and Grandma’s Lushton farm; and Abe (and Alice) Buller, who lived 6.5 miles east of Henderson.

Benjamin passed away at the age of sixty-nine, on 3 December 1966. He, and later Anna, was buried in the Bethesda Cemetery northeast of Henderson.

Grandpa was the eighth child in his family, so we have three more older siblings to go.