Aron Regehr
Born: November 11, 1827
Place: Sparua, South Russia
Died: December 29, 1905
Place: Inman, Kansas
Buried: South Inman Cemetery, Inman, Kansas
MOTHER: Unknown
FATHER: Unknown
SIBLINGS: Unknown
SPOUSE:
Maria Bolt (died: 1862 in Russia)
Married: Date Unknown
Place: South Russia
CHILDREN:
Aaron Regehr (1/12/1860 - 11/8/1939)
Maria Regehr (3/24/1862 - 1/27/1952)
(Plus five daughters who died in infancy)
Widowed: 1862
SPOUSE:
Katherina Thiessen
Married: August 25, 1862
Place: South Russia
CHILDREN:
John Regehr (1/18/1864 - 11/13/1933)
Henry Regehr (1867 - 1867)
Henry Regehr (5/10/1869 - 7/29/1929)
Jacob Regehr (2/3/1872 - 5/2/1951)
Katharina Regehr (3/17/1874 - 1/6/1958)
Abraham Regehr (1876 - 1876)
Helena Regehr (10/20/1878 - 1/18/1962)
Abraham Regehr (5/14/1880 - Unknown)
Cornelius Regehr (11/21/1883 - 7/25/1946)
George A. Regehr (12/10/1886 - Unknown)
(Two sons passed away in infancy)
STEP-CHILDREN:
Peter Born (died at age 2 1/2)
BIOGRAPHY
Aron Regehr was born in the village of Sparau, South Russia on November 11, 1827. His first marriage was to Maria Bolt. They had seven children, but five daughters died in infancy. Aaron Regehr (born January 12, 1860, died November 1939) and Maria Regehr Warkentin (born March 24, 1862, died January 27, 1952) later came to America and here reared their families. After the death of his wife, Maria, Aron Regehr was remarried while his daughter, Maria, was only nineteen months old.
His second marriage was to Mrs. Peter Born, (born Katherina Thiessen) in August 1862. She was born in Province Elbing, Prussia on January 20, 1843. Her son, Peter Born, and his son, Aaron Regehr (both the same age) didn't get along too well, so she gave her son to his grandparents--the Borns. Her son died at the age of 2 1/2 years. Aron and Katherina Regehr had ten children, of which two died in infancy.
Katherina and Aron Regehr
with children Helena and Abraham (Abe)
In 1876, On July 4, they, with their six children, arrived in America, settling on a farm three miles south and two and one-half miles west of Inman, Kansas. Katherina--then the youngest--was at that time two years old. Here, in America, four more children were born to them. In 1893, Aron Regehr and three other men (Martin Doerksen, Dietrich A. Friesen and __________) went back to Russia to see their beloved home country and relatives. When Aron came to the home of one of his sisters, the sister greeted him with a kiss. One of her children, seeing it, ran and told her brothers and sisters, "Come quick and see! Mother is kissing a Jew!"
On their farm near Inman, they reared their children to adulthood. Aron was a farmer by occupation and Katherina kept silk worms and spun the silk into thread with a spinning wheel. The Aron Regehr family attended and belonged to the Bethel Mennonite Church, south of Inman.
On December 29, 1905, Aron Regehr passed away and was buried in the South Inman Cemetery. After nearly six and one-half years of widowhood, in April of 1912, Katherina Thiessen Born Regehr was remarried to Aaron Fehdrau, and moved to Inman. Her husband passed away on July 20, 1925. Mrs. Fehdrau passed away on August 6, 1926, and was buried in the South Inman Cemetery.
COMMENTARY
Many were the hardships of our forefathers, first by leaving their homes in the Old Country to settle on the Kansas praries.
Thinking of the conditions as they are now in the Old Country, our hearts should be filled with gratitude toward our forefathers and with thankfulness to our Heavenly Father that we now live in this, our beloved land of Freedom and Liberty. Also for the sacrifices they made so that we now enjoy the blessings of their labor, realizing how much they endured when they first came to the United States of America.
