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4) Uncle Fritz who became an innkeeper and settled in Hamburg where I visited him in 1875 and got to know his first- born daughter who then married and settled in Lübeck. 5) Aunt Dorothea who married a certain Heinz in Hermannsburg who became a heavy drinker. My father married the virgin Christine Albers, born 18 December 1821, in about 1850 and took over the farm which he managed to the great satisfaction of his father and advanced it greatly. In the village he was known
by the name of “Rissmann’s Wilhelm”. He could play the accordion very well. A son was born to them, but he died soon thereafter. As a farmer in the Lüneburg Heath my father also kept bees and learnt smoking.
At the time the old Pastor Christian Harms was pastor in Hermannsburg. He had two sons, Louis and Theodor, who both studied. Louis became the assistant of his father and
with him the congregation came to life. He talked about the mission to the heathens and supported the mission work of the Brethren Church. Then they started training young people for missionary work and eventually, in 1849, an own mission was founded in the Hannover area.