Martin Bender b. 13 Nov 1860 Kassel, Odessa, Ukrayina d. 3 Jul 1931 North Dakota, USA: Das Birkenhördt-Projekt

1860 - 1931 (70 years)

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Name	Martin Bender
Born	13 Nov 1860	Kassel, Odessa, Ukrayina
Gender	Male
Died	3 Jul 1931	North Dakota, USA
Buried	Baptist Cemetery, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA [1]
Person ID	I92086	Suedpfalz
Last Modified	18 Jun 2014

Father	Johannes Bender, b. 6 Dec 1821, Kassel, Odessa, Ukrayina , d. 28 Sep 1882, Odessa, Ukrayina (Age 60 years)
Mother	Katharina Reuther, b. 1823, Oberseebach, Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France , d. Kassel, Odessa, Ukrayina
Married	28 Nov 1844	Kassel, Odessa, Ukrayina
Family ID	F41030	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Christina Knoll, b. 15 Apr 1861, Kassel, Odessa, Ukrayina , d. 13 Oct 1953, North Dakota, USA (Age 92 years)

Married 18 Jan 1883 Kassel, Odessa, Ukrayina

Children

	1. Elisabetha Bender, b. 27 Jun 1883, Kassel, Odessa, Ukrayina , d. 28 Jun 1883, Kassel, Odessa, Ukrayina (Age 0 years)
	2. Katharina Bender, b. 12 May 1884, Kassel, Odessa, Ukrayina , d. 16 Mar 1987, Ashley, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA (Age 102 years)
	3. Martin W. Bender, b. 20 Sep 1885, Kassel, Odessa, Ukrayina , d. 3 Feb 1968, Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota, USA (Age 82 years)
	4. Friedrich Bender, b. 20 Jul 1887, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA , d. 21 Sep 1887, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA (Age 0 years)
	5. Philippina Bender, b. 10 Jul 1888, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA , d. 8 Jul 1973, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA (Age 84 years)
	6. August Bender, b. 20 Sep 1890, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA , d. 15 May 1947, Lodi, San Joaquin County, California, USA (Age 56 years)
	7. Lydia Bender, b. 10 Jan 1892, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA , d. 9 Jun 1942, North Dakota, USA (Age 50 years)
	8. Jacob Bender, b. 22 Feb 1893, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA , d. 22 Nov 1900, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA (Age 7 years)
	9. Christina Bender, b. 11 Jun 1894, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA , d. 7 May 1994, Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota, USA (Age 99 years)
	10. Albina Bender, b. 30 Sep 1895, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA , d. 22 Jun 1956, Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota, USA (Age 60 years)
+	11. Bertha Bender, b. 20 Jun 1897, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA , d. 18 May 1988, Lodi, San Joaquin County, California, USA (Age 90 years)
	12. Frieda Bender, b. 18 Jan 1899, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA , d. 18 Jan 1988, North Dakota, USA (Age 89 years)
	13. Samuel Bender, b. 11 Jun 1900, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA , d. 16 Jul 1972, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA (Age 72 years)
	14. Ginthon Bender, b. 20 Oct 1902, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA , d. 11 Mar 1942, Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota, USA (Age 39 years)
	15. Johann Bender, b. 15 Dec 1903, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA , d. 15 Dec 1903, Venturia, McIntosh County, North Dakota, USA (Age 0 years)

Last Modified 1 May 2018

Family ID F26180 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

BIOGRAPHY:
http://myweb.cableone.net/berean1711/Genealogy/bender/690.htm
Martin Bender was born in Kassel, South Russia, in the year 1860, the son of John Bender, and while a native of Russia married Christina Knoll in 1883.

A desire to see America and make a new home started their emigration to the United States and in 1885 they left Russia and traveling by rail and water to the United States made their first stop at Tyndal, S. D. The next spring saw them on their way by ox team to McIntosh County, where about six miles West and two miles North of the present site of Venturia, N. D., Mr. Bender filed on three quarters of land.

In 1917, Mr. Bender had the misfortune to lose all his cattle and horses in a fire that also destroyed his fine barn. Mr. and Mrs. Bender continued their farming operations until the spring of 1928 when they left the farm and moved to Venturia, N. D. Idleness, however, was not in Mr. Bender?s make-up, so the next year he, together with his youngest son, engaged in operating a filling station in Venturia and continued that business until the spring of 1931 when he sold his interest in the business.

On July 3, 1931, Mr. Bender was called to the Great Beyond by his Maker. Internment was made in the Venturia cemetery. Mrs. Bender still makes her home in Venturia.

Mr. Bender was less fortunate than various other early pioneers, in that he not only had no property to speak of, when he arrived here, and what little he did have he had borrowed the money to buy.

The early hardships of the Bender family were many. The nearest trading point at that time being Ellendale, N. D., and many were the times he went there for flour, salt and other necessary provisions, making the 100 mile trip both ways on foot. Many times he was compelled to go a hundred miles from home in order to find work so as to support his family. In order to take his family to church he would hitch one ox and one horse to the hay rake and in that way was able to attend church services. Like many other earlier settlers Mr. Bender and family sought safety in Eureka, S. D., when it was reported that the Indians were on the war path.

Mr. Bender at one time sold one of his fine quarter sections of land for the "magnificent" sum of $100.00 in order to pay pressinq debts.

Mr. and Mrs. Bender were of Baptist faith and were blessed with eleven children all of whom are living, namely: Katherine Schnabel; Philpina Dockter; Christina Schrenk, wife of County Commissioner J. P. Schrenk; Bertha Krause; Samuel Bender, farmer; Genthon Bender, operator of a filling station and all living in or near Venturia, N. D.; Martin W. Bender, farmer of Zeeland, N. D.; August M. Bender, a carpenter of Victor, California; Lydia Woehl, of Wishek, N. D.; Albina Feioch, of Aberdeen, S. D.; and Frieda Krause, of Lehr, N. D.

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