Eva Flaming
Married Name:
Eva Flaming Janzen
Born: November 4, 1827
Place: Schardau, South Russia
Died: March 31, 1918
Place: Marion County, Kansas
MOTHER:
Justina Albrecht
FATHER:
Andreas Flaming
SIBLINGS:
Unknown
SPOUSE:
Peter F. Janzen
Married: February 15, 1852
Place: South Russia
CHILDREN:
Elizabeth Janzen
Eva Janzen (2/6/1855 - 3/6/1855)
Maria Janzen
Peter P. Janzen
Franz Janzen (died at age 14)
John P. Janzen
Aganetha Janzen
Jacob Janzen
Katharina Janzen
Widowed: September 4, 1898
BIOGRAPHY
Eva was baptized on Pentecost Sunday 1845 by Elder Benjamin Ratzlaff at Rudnerweide Mennonite Church. Although Peter and Eva belonged to the Rudnerweide Mennonite Church, they lived in the village of Kleefeld, where their children were born. The broader term, church, in which the family has held membership is now known as the General Conference Mennonites, as distinguished from other branches of the Mennonite Church.
Peter and Eva, their children and the Franz Janzen family left Europe from Antwerp, Belgium, sailing on the steamship, "State of Nevada" and arrived in New York on August 4, 1875. In Fall of that year Peter and Eva joined the Alexanderwohl Church near Goessel, Kansas, by letter from the Rudnerweide Mennonite Church in South Russia. Then Eva joined the new Tabor Mennonite Church on January 31, 1911, by transfer of letter from the Alexanderwohl Church.
In the years following the death of her husband, Peter, before Homes For the Aged were known, Eva would live two or three years with each of her children. She died on March 31, 1918, at the home of John Janzen. She was 90 years old.
NOTE OF INTEREST: Eva and Aganeta Flaming (sisters) married brothers, Peter and Franz F. Janzen, several years prior to their immigration to the United States in 1875.
