©Mennonite Heritage Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Last updated January 31, 2003)

Peter Epp fonds. -- 1900-1915. -- 4 cm of textual records.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Peter Epp was born on January 26, 1841 to Cornelius and Maria (Abrams) Epp of the Bergthal colony in south Russia. He married Maria Doerksen on December 6, 1863. They moved to Canada from the Bergthal colony but soon relocated to the West Reserve and settled near the village of Schoenthal, near Altona, Manitoba. Peter Epp, who was a writer of diaries and poetry, wrote and published a genealogy of his father Cornelius Epp in 1901. Nine children were born to this family, two of whom died in infancy. The youngest child, Susana (1882) married Henry Nickel and moved to Gouldtown, Saskatchewan.

The Epp family was a part of the Sommerfelder Mennonite Church and father Peter served the community as secretary of the Waisenamt, which was a church run aid organization. He was also president of the Fire Insurance Society. In 1903 Peter Epp moved to Altona for his retirement years and died in Altona in 1915. His wife, Maria, died in 1934.

CUSTODIAL HISTORY

The records in this collection were deposited by Peter Epp's grandson, Frank E. Dueck of Winnipeg, Manitoba between July and September of 1977. After Epp died it is unclear where the books went. They may have gone to Susana Enns of Herbert Saskatchewan. When grandson, Frank Dueck, brought the materials to the archives, a photo copy was made of the genealogy book and placed in the vertical file under Genealogy: Epp, Cornelius.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This fonds includes two journal books of Peter Epp's writings which he started in 1900. The content of these journals includes poetry, (some published in Die Mennonitische Post), recipes, accounts, reports on literary society meetings, genealogical register, correspondence and financial information. Some some of the material in the journals was first written as early as 1875 and later copied to these books.

NOTES

In German handwritten Gothic script

Location: Volume 2214

Finding aid: none