NABOKV-L post 0003615, Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:40:12 -0800

Intrigued by the speculation on Barbara Braun/_When Lilacs Last_, I ran a
search on Altavista which turned up the following (abridged) information
on a woman named Barbara Wittman Braun, Russian matriarch of a clan that
seems to have wended its way to Kansas in the late nineteenth century.
Scarcely likely that VN was paying tribute. I offer this only as further
proof that it's possible to drive a snowplow through the gap between the
possible and the probable. (And if you do drive the plow, please please
please don't bury my car any deeper!)

Ben Friedlander


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Husband: Joseph BRAUN
Born: 1815 at: Herzog (Susly), Russia
Married: bef 1839 at: Russia
Died: aft 1885 at: Russia

Wife: Barbara WITTMAN
Born: 1818 at: Russia
Died: aft 1885 at: Russia

CHILDREN
Name: Maria Catharina BRAUN
Born: bet 12 May 1839 and 1842at: Herzog (Susly), Russia
Married: at: Russia
Died: 28 Feb 1924 at: Liebenthal, Rush Co., Kansas

Name: Joseph BRAUN
Born: 1840 at: Herzog (Susly), Russia

Name: Georg Michael BRAUN
Born: May 1844/45 at: Herzog (Susly), Russia
Married: at: Russia
Died: Mar 1891 at: Victoria, Ellis Co., Kansas
Spouse: Catharine WEIRICH

Name: Anna BRAUN
Born: 1849 at: Herzog (Susly), Russia

Name: Nicolaus BRAUN
Born: 1850 at: Herzog (Susly), Russia

Name: Anna Maria BRAUN
Born: 1853 at: Herzog (Susly), Russia

Name: Johannes Peter BRAUN
Born: bet 15 Jun 1854 and 1856at: Herzog (Susly), Russia
Married: Nov 1873 at: Liebenthal, Russia
Died: 14 Oct 1920 at: Victoria, Ellis Co., Kansas
Spouse: Anna Martha WEBER

Name: Elisabeth BRAUN
Born: 1856 at: Herzog (Susly), Russia