The Brunner Family Tree - Notes -

Mary and Reinhart Schick

Mary, Reinhart and eight of their nine children immigrated to Rocky Ford, Colorado, USA on August 6th, 1906 from Galka in the Province of Saratov, Russia. Ann the eldest daughter remained in Russia with her husband and children. There and no recorded information on Ann and her family.

Mary and Reinhart moved the family to Lamar, Colorado in 1908 and farmed there. Marie the second daughter, and her new husband Henry Wittig, his parents and his siblings immigrated to Maple Creek, Saskatchewan in 1910.

Mary and Reinhart heard about land being available in Canada and decided to immigrate to there. In March of 1911 they and six of the remaining children moved to their homestead in the District of Burstall, Saskatchewan. Marie and Henry also settled there later years. The eldest son David stayed in Lamar, Colorado with his wife and children. He was an irrigation-farmer and there is no other information recorded about his wife or children.

Mary wrote home to Russia telling her younger brother Johann of the farming opportunities being offered to immigrants in Saskatchewan... and she and her husband would sponsor him and his family if they chose to come to Canada. Johann, his wife Marie and their six children arrived in Burstall in 1913.

After Reinhart's sudden death in 1915, Mary resided on the homestead with her youngest son Alex for a number of years. Other family members farmed the homestead until it was sold in 1947.