Grandpa’s siblings 7

Grandpa was child number eight in his family, after Peter, Margaretha, Katharina, Benjamin, Sara, Klaas, and Elizabeth. The photograph of him below was taken in 1926, when Grandpa was twenty years old.

After Grandpa came Maria, who was born 21 May 1908. Like her sister Sara, Maria remained single her entire life. Maria was baptized on 24 May 1926, the same day that Grandpa was baptized. Like several of their brothers and sisters, both were baptized by Johann F. Epp of the Bethesda Church.

Maria P Buller in 1930, when she was twenty-two.

Maria appears in the 1940 census, where she and Sara are listed as servants living in the household of John and Charlotte Armstrong of Upland, California.

1940 Census. For the full page, see here.

With her sister Sara, Maria compiled both the Buller and Epp Family Records. Surprisingly, the Epp volume is listed on Amazon with Maria as the author. It is also cited in a 2012 publication entitled A Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress: A Bibliography (see here).

Maria passed away at the age of eighty-eight on 5 November 1996. At the time she lived at 631 Front Street in Henderson. She is buried, as are many of her siblings, in the Buller–Siebert/Mennonite Cemetery.