Joseph (Josef) Samons, SV/PROG

TAB 3533/50 Evangelis

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Joseph Samons - born as the son of a Rabbi in 1887 in Viekšniai, Lithuania in either March or April.

He fled to South Africa in 1901 at age 13 as a stowaway on a ship and arrived at Cape Town. A very good friend of his who accompanied him, died at sea.
Joseph had family in South Africa - most likely an elder Sister/Sisters and relatives of both Martin and David.
His surname got changed to Samons somewhere between 1901 and 1910.
It may not be a fact, that Joseph was his original birth name.

In 1908 Joseph took on the Apostolic Faith and was immediately treated as being dead by his family.

On the 29th of March 1910, Joseph got married to Johanna Maria Samons (Campher), SM/PROG
They had 11 children, of which three died as infants.
Josef bought farmland in Wolwespruit, Wolmaransstad from 1922 up to 1949.
He was, therefore, both a Stock-farmer as well as an Apostolic Evangelist with the AFM Church.
He applied for Naturalization through the South African Dept. of Home Affairs, Pretoria, on the 16th of January 1950 a motivation letter was send to the Dept. of Home Affairs by the then General Secretary, AJ Schoman, of the AFM Church, but most likely died before receiving any Naturalization.
Joseph died at age 63 and 2 months on the 9th of June 1950.