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Sarah Kornelsen / Heinrich VOTH

[Sarah] Sara Kornelsen (March 21, 1853 [March 17,1853] - April 25, 1936 [July 8, 1920] and
Heinrich Voth (February 19, 1851- November 26, 1918)

• Heinrich VOTH  (1851-1918), an elder and outstanding leader of the Mennonite Brethren Church, was born in the village of Gnadenheim, Molotschna Colony, South Russia, on 19 February 1851, the fourth of eleven children of Heinrich VOTH (11 May 1823 – 27 August 1887) and Helena (Fast) Voth (30 June 1823 – 21 December 1884). [Voth and Fast were married on 10 December 1844 - http://smharder.com/tree_quiring/f12.htm  ] On 12 June 1873, he married SARAH KORNELSEN (21 March 1853 [17 March 1853], Pordenau, Molotschna Colony, South Russia – 25 April 1936 [July 8, 1920], Winkler, Manitoba, Canada) in Klippenfeld, Molotschna Colony. SARAH [KORNELSEN] was the daughter of HEINRICH KORNELSEN (15 June 1807 - 30 March 1857) and SARAH (WALL) [WALDE] KORNELSEN (1 August 1826 – 13 September 1897). Heinrich and Sarah [Voth] had eleven children (nine children grew to adulthood). Heinrich d. 26 November 1918 in Vanderhoof, BC and was buried in Winkler, MB. [ http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/V6836.html ]
    

• Heinrich Voth Founder of the Mennonite Brethren Church in Canada  ... When Heinrich Voth first came to southern Manitoba in the 1880s to witness to his faith among fellow Mennonites, he came to a community searching for new answers. Voth had arrived in the United States from Russia less than a decade before and settled at Bingham Lake, Minnesota. He and his wife Sarah (Kornelsen) had embraced a strong personal faith in Christ in Russia. Voth had been a teacher in Klippenfeld in the Molotschna Colony for several years before moving to the U.S.

  When the Voths emigrated to America in 1876 they had not yet joined the Mennonite Brethren Church. About a year later, over the objections of his parents, they were baptized by a lay member of the small Mennonite Brethren Church at Bingham Lake. A few weeks later, Voth was chosen to be the minister of the group. He faithfully led this church for forty-two years.

  Voth was a persuasive and attractive evangelist, a strong Bible teacher and preacher, and a vigorous conference leader. Although he sometimes met resistance, he was not easily derailed from his commitments. Voth also was a notable practitioner of a system of itinerant ministry that early Mennonite Brethren used with great effectiveness. This system involved going into communities (mostly Mennonite) and finding opportunities to share the gospel in homes, schools or churches, always with the hope of leading people to a clear sense of forgiveness of sins and new life in Christ. Such itinerant ministry was a key to the growth of the Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia and in America ...

  His son, Henry S. Voth, later became leading minister of the Winkler Church and was a very effective conference leader. It was he who had his father's bones brought to Winkler, to be buried in the soil where he spent so much of his life's passion ...

  [ http://www.mbhistory.org/profiles/voth.pdf ]

Heinrich S. VOTH

• Heinrich S. Voth of Winkler, Manitoba, pioneer minister and evangelist of the Mennonite Brethren Church, was born on January 28, 1878, at Bingham Lake, Minnesota, son of Aeltester Heinrich Voth (1851-1918) and [Sarah] Sara (nee Kornelson) Voth. He attended the Mountain Lake, Minnesota public and high school and later McPherson College in Kansas. In 1902, Voth was called to be the Conference evangelist in Canada and the United States. He married Susanna Warkentin in 1904; six children were born to them. He was ordained into the ministry in 1907 and for many years was a full-time evangelist. From 1908 to 1915, he held pastorates in the Mennonite Brethren churches at Dallas, and at Portland, Oregon. In 1919, he became the pastor of the Winkler Mennonite Brethren Church where he remained until his retirement in 1950. He was always interested in missions and in training young people. For many years Voth was the chairman of the General Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Church and also the Canadian Conference. For a number of years he was a member of the Foreign Mission Board of the Mennonite Brethren Conference and an officer of this board. He also served on the Education Committee of the General Conference and the local Bible School. Heinrich S. Voth died on October 25, 1953.

[ http://www.mennonitechurch.ca/programs/archives/holdings/papers/Voth,%20Heinrich%20S.%20fonds.htm ]

1) Herman Neufeld, 2) Abram R Voth, 3) Peter H. Voth, 4) Henry S. Voth, 5) John Warkentin, 6) Peter Neufeld (author of diary), 7) Henry Neufeld, 8) John V. Neufeld (author of Vanderhoof settlement story), 9) Isaac H. Voth;

Second from back, standing:

10) Jake Neufeld, 11) Helen Neufeld. 12) Viola Neufeld, 13) Jake H. Voth, 14) Aaron Dyck, 15) Luella Dyck, 16) Harry Voth, 17) Susie Warkentin Voth, 18) Esther Voth, 19), Mary Voth, 20) Peter H. Neufeld. 21) John H. Voth, 22) Elizabeth Voth (John's d), 23) Sara Neufeld, 24) Margaret Neufeld;

Third row, seated:

25) Mrs. Jake Voth, 26) Sara Voth Dyck, 27) Sara Kornelsen Voth, 28) Elder Heinrich Voth, 29) Helen Voth Neufeld, 30) Maria (Epp) Voth; Fourth row, children on riser: 3 1) Harold Voth, 32) Elizabeth Voth (Jake's d), 33) Ernest Dyck, 34) Ruth Dyck, 35) Viola Voth, 36) Teddy Voth, 37) Sara Voth (H.S.Voth's d);

Children seated in front:

38) John Lester Voth, 39), David Neufeld, 40) Margaret Neufeld, 4 1) Menno Voth, 42) Sara Voth (John's d)

http://www.mennonitehistorian.ca/24.4.MHDec98.pdf - Peter Penner, "The Heinrich Voth Family: From Minnesota to Winkler to Vanderhoof", Mennonite Historian,  Volume XXIV, No.4, December, 1998, pp. 1-2.

VOTH LINEAGE

• HANS (Hanz VOTH ) FOTH was born 1800 in Prussia, and died February 12, 1829 in Gnadenheim [Molotschna], Russia. He married MARIA FLAMING 1823 in Prussia. She was born May 30, 1801 in Prussia, and died May 20, 1875 in Gnadenheim [Molotschna], Russia. [Johann Heinrich Vogt VOTH, born 1800, Wernersdorf, Prussia? - http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/a/n/Ruby-M-Janzen-WA/COL5-0111.html ]

• HEINRICH (VOTH ) FOTH was born May 25, 1824 in Warnersdorf Prussia [Wernersdorf, Schlesien, Prussia] and died August 27, 1887 in Bingham Lake Minnesota. He married HELENA FAST December 10, 1844 in Gnadenheim  [Molotschna], Russia. She was born July 12, 1823 in Parrau, South Russia [Might this be the village of Sparrau, Gnadenfeld district, Molotswchna?], and died December 21, 1884 in Bingham Lake Minnesota.

• HEINRICH (VOTH) FOTH  was born February 19, 1851 in Gnadenheim  [Molotschna], Russia, and died November 26, 1918 in Vanderhoof, B C. He married SARAH KORNELSEN [daughter of HEINRICH KORNELSEN (15 June 1807 - 30 March 1857) and SARAH (WALL) [WALDE] KORNELSEN (1 August 1826 – 13 September 1897)] June 12, 1873 in Klippenfeld [Molotschna] Russia. She was born March 29, 1853 in Pordenau, Russia, and died April 25, 1936 in Winkler, Manatoba Canada.

  Children:

• HELEN4 FOTH, b. April 10, 1874, Klippenfeld [Molotschna], Russia; d. October 29, 1943, Yarrow, B. C.; m. PETER H NEUFELD, July 29, 1894, Bingham Lake Minnesota; b. June 19, 1874, Bingham Lake Minnesota; d. August 26, 1941, Yarrow, B. C..
• SARA FOTH, b. January 04, 1876; d. August 23, 1876, Bingham Lake Minnesota.
• HENRY FOTH, b. January 28, 1878, Bingham Lake Minnesota; d. October 23, 1953, Winkler Manitoba, Canada; m. SUSANNA WARKENTIN, October 28, 1904, Winkler Manitoba, Canada; b. October 15, 1882, Winkler Manitoba, Canada; d. December 20, 1972, Winkler Manitoba, Canada.
• JOHN FOTH, b. December 23, 1879, Bingham Lake Minnesota; d. July 29, 1943, Tulsa, Oklahoma; m. MARY EPP, October 18, 1907, Bingham Lake Minnesota; b. January 01, 1881, Bingham Lake Minnesota; d. September 16, 1968, Hilsboro, Kansas.

http://www.crosbygenealogy.com/foth_family_history.htm