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Note: Date sent: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 21:54:21 -0600
I have acopy of an article on the Daniel Radons family from a Lipton/Leross
district history book called "Our Treasured Heritage" 1984. It says Dan met and married Amelia in Winnipeg in 1912. They farmed in the Melville area before moving to the Leross area. They had 6 sons and 4 daughters, another article says 6 and 5. It says in another article in the book that Dan was born in 1883 and Amelia in 1894. The Kleinke sisters were to come to America on the Titanic but were "bumped" to another ship. Dan served 4 compulary years in the Russian Army said it was hell. Len said his dad, Dan, bought the land from a man they called Uncle Yantz. (The document from the Gov. of Sask. says G.Yantz owned it in 1932). Was this Julia's brother?
Chris Radons
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THE RADONS FAMILY
by Jean (Radons) Parker
Daniel Radons met and married Amelia Keinko, (Emilie Kleinke), in Winnipeg in 1912. They came west and for a short time farmed in the Melville district, before settling in the Lipton area. They came to the Doverley district in 1928.
Daniel and Amelia (Emilie) had six sons and four daughters. The Radons children made up the greater part of the small one-room school enrollment for a time.
William, the eldest married Esther Kaetler. They farmed in the Kelliher area for a short time before leaving to make their home in B.C. in 1947 where they still reside.
Bert, Kack, John, Helen, Elsie, and Leonard all live in Regina with their families.
Leo passed away in 1942 and Linda has been an invalid for many years and is in regina.
Jean lived with her grandparents in Winnipeg. Jean married Harold Parker in 1944 and became a part of the Doverley Scene.
Jean vividly recalls one incident when she was a child which happened when she was on a visit to her parents. The adults had left the children at home when they went to visit some friends. Besides the Radons children there were 5 cousins from Winnipeg ranging in age from 14 to 7 years. Bill the eldest, had to go to get some water from the slough on a stone-boat. (A stone-boat is a flat made up of 2" x 6" planks 4 to 6 feet long fastened to two poplar runners and pulled by horses. It was used for various chores). Bill invited us to come along. We were all game. Jack, the youngest, just 4 years was put in the barrel, whil the rest of us tried to hang on to the barrel with one hand. All went well until we came to a hill and the horses started to gallop down it. We all panicked and jumped off the stone-boat. The barrel upset and rolled down the hill, coming to a stop against a tree, with Jack still in it. Fortunately we came out of the mishap unhurt, though badly frightened and crying.
Another incident occurred which could have ended in a tragedy. (Bill related this one). Bert was a wee chap at the time. He had been playing around the farmyard, when suddenly he was discovered missing. The family immediately went to look for him. He was found with his head between the spokes of the wooden wheel of a wagon, hanging there, not knowing enough to try to lift his head up. Needless to say, all were happy that Bert survived the ordeal.
Dan and Amelia (Emilie) retired to Regina. Amelia (Emilie) passed away in 1963 and daniel survived her by 14 years. He died at the age of 92.
Glen Kirsch, a grandson is now a successful farmer on the Radons land.
Source: An article on the Daniel Radons family from a Lipton/Leross District history book called "Our Treasured Heritage" 1984.
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REMINISCENCES OF GRANDMA AND GRANDPA RADONS
by Evelyn Kusniak (Hiske)
Daniel Radons, son of Stefan and Eva Radons was born in Volhynia, Russia in 1883. As a young man it was compulsory that he serve four years in the Russian Army. The living and sleeping conditions in camp were apalling. He told stories of boiling his clothes to rid them of lice, but with the crowded unsanitary conditions the little creatures would multiply and soon he'd be covered with them again. The training was very military and very strict and each man's tolerance was put to the test.
As soon as he was out of the army, Daniel and his parents immigrated by ship to Canada, and on to Winnipeg by train. While in Winnipeg he met his bride to be Emilia Kleinke.
Emelia was the daughter of Adolphe and Julia Kleinke. She was born in a part of Russia in 1894. In 1912, as a young woman, she and her sisters were to be passengers on the maiden voyage of the magnificent new ship, "Titanic." Arriving atthe boat dock, they were astonished at the crowds trying to get aboard ship. Everyone wanted to be the first passengers to cross the ocean in this great "unsinkable" luxury ocean liner. The ship was loaded and yet people were struggling and fighting to go aboard. Out at sea, the mighty Titanic struck a very large iceberg and sank. All aboard were lost at sea. (actually there were survivors) What a terrible tragedy that was!
As luck was surely with them, the Kleinke sisters (children would be the correct word, there was a brother with them, Emil, and their mother Julianna or "Julia" Yantz Kleinke) had to go aboard another ship that took them safely on the long 12 day journey across the vast ocean. [Actually, one of the children got sick, (thankfully), and they couldn't board the Titanic as they had to take care of the sick child. This delayed them and they had to go to Germany then, (possibly to stay with relatives until their child was again well, and possibly because they could better communicate in german), then they took the ship "Grosser Kurfurst" out of Bremen, Germany.] Arriving in Canada, they took a train to Winnipeg. It was here that Emelia was introduced to Daniel Radons and they were married within the week.
With his new bride and his parents, Daniel traveled by train to Lipton, Saskatchewan. They all resided here a number of years before grandma Eva passed away. Their first home on the prairies was of logs and as many of the pioneer families at that time, many difficulties had to be overcome. The great distance to reach a doctor, or to go to town by horse and buggy, were only a few. Emelia was always so afraid of the many gophers that lived in the prairie land. They were everywhere and when a few would dig up through the sod floor of their home, well! that was the limit.
A number of years later, Daniel decided to move further north, maybe to better land. So in the winter of 1927 the Radons family, consisting of 4 young children and an aging grandpa, Stefan, set out by horses and sleigh through deep snow to their new home on section 10, about 8 miles south of LeRoss.
The children attended Doverly School, that was built in 1911. As the family grew in size and number, the older members took on their share of the workload. The prairie housewife soon learned how to make do, or produce the necessities of her family. Daniel broke land with plow and horses and took his chances of reaping a crop. If it wasn't drought, then rust or hail or grasshoppers took it's share of the harvest. A wagonbox of grain hardly paid for the expenses of producing it. No matter how hard it was to make ends meet, somehow Emelia and Daniel managed and were kind and helpful to a few neighbors that had even less. Grandpa Stefan passed away while most of the children were still young.
With the passing of years and times improving, the Radonscontinued to farm on their now mixed farm.
They raised a large family of six sons and five daughters. Son Leo passed away as a young man in 1942. Their eldest son, Bill now lives in Aldergrove, B.C.. Bert, Jack, and Leonard live in regina. John resides at Zehner, Sask. Three daughters, Linda Almen, Helen Hiske, and Elsie Chobot reside in Regina. Jean Parker lives in Qu'Appelle and Erna Kirsch on her farm north of Lipton.
Daniel and Emelia moved to Regina in 1959. The years of hard toil left it's mark on Emelia, whose health failed, and on May 25, 1963 she passed away. So sad to think that she never really had too much of a chance to enjoy all of the modern conveniences of her city home that was a far cry from her first home on the prairies. Daniel reached the grand age of 93 years before his passing on May 1, 1976. They are both laid to rest in the Lipton Memorial Gardens, very near the place where they first started their long hard pioneer lives together. God Bless their dear souls!
Source: An article on the Daniel Radons family from a Lipton/Leross District history book called "Our Treasured Heritage" 1984.
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