Jakob Wiedmann

• Born: 6 Dec 1833, Grossliebental, Odessa District, Ukraine, S. Russia.
  (Philip Wiedmann Family Bible; 1900 Census shows 1834, but YOB is on cemetery stone)
• Marriage: ELISABETHA WAGNER, 24 Oct 1862, Grossliebental, S. Russia.
  http://www.odessa3.org/collections/stpete/gros/link/gros186m.txt
  186x Grossliebental marriage records show:
  Wittman, Jacob, marr. 24 Oct 1862, Grossliebental, Elisabetha Wagner
• Died: 8 Nov 1907, Venturia, McIntosh County, ND at age 73y, 11m, 2d.
  (Philip Wiedmann Family Bible)
• Buried: Venturia, ND, Wiedmann Pioneer Cemetery
  (Cemetery list, Frieda Wiedmann Bower, 1992/Millie Wiedmann Schrenk, 2004. Grave stone, Venturia Baptist Cemetery with Elisabetha).

Shortly after their marriage, Jakob and Elisabetha moved from Grossliebental to the new daughter colony of Annental, founded in 1860, where their children were born.

Birth records of daughter Elisabetha show the parents were from Würtemburg.

The family immigrated to the USA in 1890.
They boarded the SS Eider in Bremen, Germany and arrived at Castle Garden, NY on April 8, just 10 days before it was closed (US immigration moved to the NY Barge Office on April 19, 1890, and began at Ellis Island on January 1, 1892).

The family took a train to Eureka, SD, arriving there on April 14, and homesteaded 160 acres 1/2 mile west of Venturia (NW quar., Sec 15, Township 129, Range 71). This plat of land was registered in Vol. 117, page 218 at Bismarck, ND on April 22, 1899.

The first Venturia school began on Nov 4, 1897 in the home of Jakob Wiedmann.

The first building in Venturia was called the Bazaar, built by Jakob Wiedmann in 1901 on the 3rd lot south of the corner where the Wiedmann Brothers Hardware Store was built later.

Jakob died Nov. 8, 1907 and was buried in the Wiedmann Pioneer Cemetery, a parcel of land in the NW corner of his property, one-half mile west of Venturia on the south side of the road, where several other members of the Wiedmann family had been buried earlier.