"Vier Pferdekarren auf der Fahrt von Mamre nach Pella zur Ordination von Br. Weber (grosse zweirädrige Karren mit je 4 Pferden. Im ersten Wagen Bischof Marx, Br. Winkler. Im zweiten Wagen Schw. Marx, Schw. Winkler. Dann Küppers und Gerickes. Diese Verkehrsart für die frühere Zeit charakteristisch, heute mehr und mehr im Schwinden)" ("Four horse-carts on the way from Mamre to Pella, traveling to Br[other] Weber's ordination (big two.wheeled cart with four horses each. In the first wagon Bishop Marx, Br[other] Winkler. In the second wagon S[ister] Marx, S[ister] Winkler. Then Küppers and Gerickes. This means of transport, typical of earlier times, is disappearing more and more today)"). Four horse-carts on a cart track in a field. Persons are sitting on the carts. Walther Winkler, born in 1877 in Nazareth, Jamaica. Here he worked as a teacher. In 1908 he married Gertrud Knothe in Niesky. From 1908-11 her worked as a missionary in Suriname. Due to an illness of Mrs. Winkler they had to return to Europe in 1911. From 1913 missionary in South Africa West. From 1913 stationed in Elim. -- Brother Gericke is probably Friedrich Gericke, born in 1868 in Friedrichsthal, Greenland where he worked as a merchant. From 1896-1907 he was on missionary service in Labrador where he married Elisabeth Langerfeld in 1897. The years from 1907-09 they spent in Europe from where they travelled to South Africa in 1909. From 1909-35 Gericke and his wife worked as missionaries first in Genadendal (1909-10), then in Elim (1910-13) and finally in Enon (1913-34). The Gerickes retired in 1935
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