Blocked

                   RADWON  PONDARENGO IN RUSSIA
TRANSLATED RODION BONDARENKO, THE ONLY PLACE GRANDFATHER USED THE
SPELLING WAS IN THE 1910 CENSUS OF NORTH DAKOTA
POSSIBLE PICTURE ON COVER OF AUGUST 1986 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
SOCIETY MAGAZINE
FREDONIA ND ARRIVAL JUN 1904
POB GOBITEEN RUSSIA NAME OF SHIP WILLIAM KAISER
PASS LIST SOUNDEX B535 NY PORT AND
IGI 1993 1993
27M & 1 MEMBER RUSSIA KAISER WM DE GR NGL 15 JUN 1904 GP 10 LIST 22,23
PORT OF ENTRY CASTLEGAR OR CASLEGAR TWO CHILDREN WERE WITH THEM BUT NOT NAMED
BELIEVE THE TWINS EVERYONE THINKS THEY HAD.
NAME AND LOC OF COURT BISMARK ND
DATE OF NATURALIZATION APR 1913
RESIDED IN NAPOLION DISTRICT NO DAKATA 1904-1917
DOB 10 OCT 1875 ZIRKOVKA RUSSIA RE ORTH Marion Russia on Petition for naturalization,
This could have been Dorothy's birth place. and in letters from American Consulate in
Calgary,Alberta Zerkoff,Russia 10 Nov 1875.
INFORMATION FROM IMM & NATURALIZATION PAPERS USA
1910 CENSUS POPULATION LOGAN COUNTRY 16 JUN 1910 GUSTOV D SOUTLE ENUMERATOR
FARMER PONDARENGO RADWON M W 35 M 6 CHILD 5 LIVING 2 RUS RUS RUS 1901
PONDARENGO DARIA  S W 28 M 6 CHILD 5 LIVING 2 RUS RUS RUS 1902
PONDARENGO SYDIA  S W  4                      ND  RUS RUS
PONDARENGO SINA   S W  3                      ND  RUS RUS
TRANSLATION BONDARENKO RODION
BONDARENKO DOROTHEA
BONDARENKO LYDIA
BONDARENKO ZENNA
LDS FILM 1375166
NEIGHBORS OSMAN, BODDEN, SCHOCK, BUCKLEY, GRULER, KRUGER, LASANKI, MIDDLE,
JIRKI, MARGER, WASARENGO, PRESLER, RINKE, SYMINNY, PONDERANGO, RAINIG, RUFT,
HALL,KRUGER, SUS, WERRIBRIDE, KENADY, EHMISS, LOUTH, LAVITT, LAUTT, GLUBER, ELHART,CHERAHA, LAULT, SCHWERGENT
1-3 SEP 1995 LEFT CALGARY ALTA WITH DOUGLAS RUSHTON AS TRAVELLING COMPION WHEN TO FREDONIA NORTH DAKOTA TO LOOK FOR FARM STOPPED IN BISMARK COULD NOT FIND PHOTO SHOP OLD ENOUGH TO FIND OLD PHOTOS, FOUND THREE CEMERIES NO GRAVE MARKERS FOR MISSING TWINS BELIEVE THEY ARE BURIED IN THE TADOR CEMETERY BY THEIR OLD LOCATION 133W SOUTH SCHOOL DISTRICT LOGAN COUNTY THEN ON THE WAY BACK DOUGLAS WANTED TO STOP TO SEE CUSTERS LAST STAND IN LITTLE BIG HORN IN MONTANA ON THE WAY BACK HOME. ONE CEMETERY LOGAN GO 1 MILE PAST 12 AND 30 AND TURN RIGHT GO 3/4 MILE ON LEFT.  KINGS CEMETERY 3 AND 34 AT NAPOLEAN GO E 19 MILES TO HW 30 THEN THEN 5 MILES S 2 MILES E 1/2 MILE S ON EAST SIDE.  FREDONIA 1/2N ON 56 1/2 MILE E AND THE ONE BY THE OLD HOUSE EAST 1/2 TURN LEFT 1 MILE RUN RIGHT INTO IT
THE TWO CHILDREN ARE LISTED ON THE SHIPS MANIFEST
Letter Victor from Dept Citizenship and Immigration USA
Rodion crossed 2 Apr 1917 and then the family on 5 Apr 1917,as mentioned below.
MICRO FILM R929 R929.371 BORDER ENTRY LISTS 1908 1919 T5494
CALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY
EXTRACT FROM REPORT OF ADMISSION OF THE PORT OF NORTH PORTAL SASKATCHEWAN FOR
THE MONTH OF  APRIL 1917
5 APR 1917 MRS R BONDARENKO   AGE 35  FROM RUSSIA AND WIFE ON PASSENGER TRAIN
#105 FROM FREDONIA ND
LYDIA             AGE 10
ZENA              AGE  8
CLARA             AGE  6
VICTOR            AGE  5
LEON              AGE  2
SIGNED WH DORSEY IMMIGRATION INSPECTOR
BURIAL MEDICINE HAT ALBERTA BC 143C7S 25 OCT 1963 Hillside Cemetery
Letter from A&L Kirschenman 1008L ,Eureka,SD,USA PO Bos 64. dated 28 Oct 2001.
This is  the family I have  talked  to that are the present owners of the land that Rodion farmed
just West of Fredonia,ND,USA.
Dear Otto Abert Palfenier:
How are you, we are doing OK, the  weather has been good all fall.
According to the wifes abstract this bondarenko had this land in 1910, but only 120 acres.  That a
man by the name of Charles Hillemann homested 40 acres also in 1910, in 1916 Bondarenko bought
that 40 acres from this Hillemann, according to the abstract these really had a hard time because
again and again they would mortgage the land.in 1917 Bondarenko sold this land to Edward Keonig,
but according to the abstract Bondarenko owed $1,110.00 on the  land that this Keonig took over
when he bought it in Mar 10,1917, then again this Keonig mortgaged to a bank in Fredonia,ND, a town close by in 1927, he paid off the mortgage, wheat had a good price, from about 1921 to about 1925.  The Keonigs raised 9 children on that land and farm where the Lloyd Ruffs now live.Things went quite well for the Keonigs, they build a new house and so on in 1986 Mr Koenig become very  ill and he deeded his land to all his children, it looks like the land was debt free at the time.  In 1948 my wife's first husband, his dad bought it  again, the land was in debt until 2000.  It is clear now, but these families had a long hard struggle.  The winters in the  Lehr-Fredonia area are very hard.There is no sign of any building sites, but there is a spat of horse radish growing, so there had to be a house and garden there at one time, horse radish never dies.  Also a rock pile that
looks like rocks were piled on a mount of dirt, there could have been a sod house at one time.
Hi from Lorraine:
My husband wrote this information for you.  We are sorry that it took so long to get this to you, being my abstracts are not here in the bank at Eureka.  Its been a while since I got them, but then
Albert has been so busy helping his son and also his son is law.  So yesterday he seen, after he had time to do it.  Thank You again for all the work, you did and for sending us that big package of information .  We sure hope that this will be some help to you.  I ask the Ruffs about the two tombstones that are in there pasture & he said its his Great Grandfather & small children.
1. From information in the Lloyd Ririe files.
2. From a group sheet furnished by Juliadean Bondy in 1989 with Leonard Bondy as the husband , the father of Leonard Bondy is shown as Rodion Bondarenko, not Rodney Bondy.  It is possibl e he changed his name to the simpler Rodney Bondy. The Rin # for R. Bondarenko is 2018.
                  

                   AFNI FW 74-94
LDS IGI 1993
PASS LIST SOUNDEX B535 NY PORT
AGE 18 RUSSIA STEAMER COLUMBIA LINE ANCHOR 22 DEC 1905 NW GP 11 LIST 15
                  

                   LDS SOCIAL SOC RECORD USA