Burial was in the Chortitza village cemetery in the Chortitza Mennonite Colony, Ekaterinoslav Province, Russia (now part of the city of Zaporizhia, Ukraine). The village where our ancestor Cornelius lived at the time of his death is not known for sure, but it may have been Schönhorst.
In July 2019, demolition of an abandoned brick barn in Ukraine uncovered more than 100 tombstones that had been used in the foundation. Nearly all the grave markers have Mennonite names on them and came from a Mennonite cemetery leveled by the former Soviet Union in the 1930s.
In May 2020, one of them was identified as Cornelius Ens, 1819-1884. (The letters K and C are interchangeable in Russia/Ukraine, and the inscription of his name on his tombstone is with the letter C.)
In July 2019, demolition of an abandoned brick barn in Ukraine uncovered more than 100 tombstones that had been used in the foundation. Nearly all the grave markers have Mennonite names on them and came from a Mennonite cemetery leveled by the former Soviet Union in the 1930s.
In May 2020, one of them was identified as Cornelius Ens, 1819-1884. (The letters K and C are interchangeable in Russia/Ukraine, and the inscription of his name on his tombstone is with the letter C.)
Burial was in the Chortitza village cemetery in the Chortitza Mennonite Colony, Ekaterinoslav Province, Russia (now part of the city of Zaporizhia, Ukraine). The village where our ancestor Cornelius lived at the time of his death is not known for sure, but it may have been Schönhorst.
In July 2019, demolition of an abandoned brick barn in Ukraine uncovered more than 100 tombstones that had been used in the foundation. Nearly all the grave markers have Mennonite names on them and came from a Mennonite cemetery leveled by the former Soviet Union in the 1930s.
In May 2020, one of them was identified as Cornelius Ens, 1819-1884. (The letters K and C are interchangeable in Russia/Ukraine, and the inscription of his name on his tombstone is with the letter C.)
In July 2019, demolition of an abandoned brick barn in Ukraine uncovered more than 100 tombstones that had been used in the foundation. Nearly all the grave markers have Mennonite names on them and came from a Mennonite cemetery leveled by the former Soviet Union in the 1930s.
In May 2020, one of them was identified as Cornelius Ens, 1819-1884. (The letters K and C are interchangeable in Russia/Ukraine, and the inscription of his name on his tombstone is with the letter C.)
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