Only a few hours in the year remain, but we should not let this year pass without recognizing that 2017 is the two hundredth anniversary of a significant event in our family history. What happened in 1817? Perhaps the scan of a census entry below, families 16–18, will jog your memory.
Family 18 is our own Benjamin and Helena, with their sons Benjamin and David. Indeed, it was in 1817, two hundred years ago this year, that they emigrated from the Przechovka region to Volhynia, where they lived for the next two decades, until they moved to Waldheim in Molotschna colony.
That move was a significant event in our family’s history, since for at least two centuries prior to that the Bullers had lived in Poland, which was eventually annexed into West Prussia. Poland, along the Vistula River, had been the only home that generations of Bullers had ever known, but Benjamin and family left that life behind to start a new one as tenants on the estate of a nobleman named Waclav Borejko, where the Benjamin Bullers and seventeen other Mennonite families founded a village named Zofyovka.
If you wish to revisit that part of our family story, you can read the following posts:
We will return to the Benjamin’s Father and Alexanderwohl series in the new year. In the meantime, Happy New Year!
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