Bayard, Morrill Co., Nebraska
Following the sugar beet industry, Volga Germans first settled in Bayard in January, 1913, having first stopped in Gering. This first group of five families were from Franzosen and had earlier settled in Sugar City, Colorado.
The Great Western sugar beet factory was built in Bayard in 1917.
The following Volga German families are known to have lived in and around Bayard:
Abel from Müller
Buxbaum from Franzosen
Deines from Franzosen & Kratzke
Dolberg from Beideck
Heil from Laub
Heimbichner
Homan from Neu-Norka
Kammerzell from Frank
Kildow from Norka
Kuxhausen from Rosenberg
Lapp from Frank
Leever from Kraft
Lundgren from Franzosen
Nazarenus from Kutter
Nuss from Neu-Müller
Reifschneider from Saalfeld (Rostov)
Reitz from Kukkus
Sauer from Norka
Schmunk
Sterkel from Norka
Worster from Balzer
Zink from Marienfeld
Zitterkopf from Huck
- Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 52.
- Bayard Cemetery (findagrave.com)
- Bayard Cemetery (gravestones.org)
Bayard, Nebraska (Wikipedia)
Pre-Volga Origin
Great Western sugar beet factory under construction in Bayard, Nebraska.
Began operation in 1917.
Source: Western Sugar Cooperative.