Grandpa’s siblings 6

Of Peter P and Margaretha’s twelve children, six were sons and six were daughters. This post is about child seven and daughter four: Elizabeth P Buller.

Elizabeth P Buller in 1923, the year of her baptism.

Elizabeth was born 21 March 1904 and was baptized 20 May 1923. Like her older sister Katharina and her older brother Benjamin, Elizabeth was baptized by Heinrich Epp of the Bethesda Mennonite Church.*

Two years later, on 19 August 1925, Elizabeth wed David A. Regier. Their family came to include five children: Peter, David, Frederick, Levi, and Margaret Alice. Elizabeth lived to the age of eighty-four, passing away on 27 July 1988. David lived four years beyond that. Both are buried in the Buller–Siebert/Mennonite Cemetery southeast of Henderson.

* With all of the baptisms thus far noted, the person being baptized was roughly nineteen to twenty-one years old. Presumably this was (is?) fairly common for Mennonite adult baptism. A future post will explore other aspects of baptism, such as the likelihood that Molotschna churches held one large baptismal service each year, generally in May–July.