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Dietrich Derk Tieszen

Also Known As: "Thiessen", "Thiesen", "Thyssen", "Tyssen", "Thissen", "Tissen", "Thyzen", "Thijssen"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Sparrau, Molotschna, Ukraine
Death: April 05, 1895 (57)
Mountain Lake Township, Cottonwood County, Minnesota, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Abraham E. Thiessen and Judith A L Thiessen
Husband of Anna A Thiessen
Father of Anna D. F. Buller; #329905 Andru Tieszen; #329906 Derk Tieszen; Maria Unruh; Derk Tieszen and 16 others
Brother of Aaron Thiessen; Anna Kunkel; Peter Abraham L. Thiessen; Abraham L. Thiessen; Sarah A. L. Berg and 4 others

GM #: 70464
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About Dietrich Derk Tieszen

GEDCOM Note

Dietrich Lepp Tiessen was born on Jul 13, 1837 in Danzig, West Prussia (Poland), and he died on Apr 5, 1895 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. He married Anna Flaming on May 2, 1861 in Margenau, Molotschna, Russia. She had been born on Dec 23, 1841, in Kleefeld, Molotschna, Russia. She died on Feb 13, 1904 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota.
They had 22 children, only two of whom survived into adult, most of them dying at or soon after birth, which is tragic to contemplate.

They had travelled to the US on the SS Strasbourg, arriving on July 2, 1878.

They were charter members of First Mennonite Church, Mountain Lake, MN.

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Dietrich Derk Tieszen's Timeline

1837
July 13, 1837
Sparrau, Molotschna, Ukraine
1861
December 30, 1861
1862
March 25, 1862
1863
December 25, 1863
1864
November 23, 1864
1866
August 31, 1866
Molotschna, Ukraine
1867
September 23, 1867
1869
February 26, 1869
1870
May 5, 1870