WaKeeney

HISTORY

In December of 1877, James F. Keeney and Albert E. Warren purchased from the Kansas Pacific Railway Co. the land that was to become WaKeeney (a contraction of their names). The first Volga Germans began settling to the north and west of WaKeeney in the late 1890s.

VOLGA GERMAN CONGREGATIONS AND PARISHES

Bethlehem Lutheran Church

Christ the King Catholic Parish

Immanuel Lutheran Church

Zion Lutheran Church - Trego Center

VOLGA GERMAN FAMILIES

The following Volga German families are known to have settled in Trego County:

Bender from Kratzke
Berschauer from Kratzke
Blehm from Kratzke
Bollig
Boxberger from Kratzke
Brungardt
Deines from Kratzke
Denning from from Herzog
Dinkel from from Herzog
Dietz from Kratzke
Dreiling from Herzog
Fabrizius from Kratzke
Flagler / Flegler from Dietel
Geist
Gideon from Kratzke
Heronemous
Karst from Eckheim & Holstein
Koleber from Kratzke
Krug from Kratzke
Legleiter from Louis
Mai from Kratzke & Ährenfeld
Margheim from Merkel & Wiesenmüller
Mehler
Michaelis from Kratzke
Pfan(n)enstiel from Ober-Monjou
Rupp from Ober-Monjou
Schneider from Kratzke & Ährenfeld
Schoenberger from Mariental
Schreiner
Schwien from Kratzke
Stenzel from Ährenfeld
Stoppel from Nieder-Monjou
Waldschmidt from Ober-Monjou
Weigel from Herzog
Wolf from Ährenfeld
Ziegler from Göbel