Peter Pankratz family from Russia to Oklahoma.
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Peter Pankratz family from Russia to Oklahoma.
| Cheryl Munyon Rowe (View posts) | Posted: 27 Jun 2000 11:23PM GMT |
Looking for any additional info. on the family of the Reverend Peter Pankratz who brought his family from Russia to present day Washita Co. Ok in the 1880's. The family originated with a Johan Pankratz in Holland in the late 1600's and fled to Germany (Prussia?) and then to Russia in search of religious freedom. Rev. Pankratz was the leader of a Mennonite community and was founding a town of Mineral Wells around his artesian mineral wells before he died in 1909.