Park, Gove Co., Kansas
Park was founded originally by English and Irish immigrants as a stop on the Union Pacific Railroad known as Buffalo Station. It's first official name was Buffalo Park. In 1898, the name of Park was adopted.
These early immigrants were joined by Germans from the Odessa region of Russia who had originally settled in Texas, and then by Volga German families who were moving west from their orginal settlements in Ellis and Rush Counties.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
The following Volga German families are known to have settled in and around Park:
Bieker
Billinger from Herzog
Burgardt
Denning
Depperschmidt from Liebental
Dreiling
Engel from Ober-Monjou
Feldt
Goetz from Herzog
Haffner
Hartmann
Herzog
Holzmeister
Kahler
Kinderknecht from Mariental
Kraft
Kuhn from Herzog
Lang
Legleiter
Leiker from Ober-Monjou
Linenberger from Herzog
Meier
Naab from Kamenka
Paul from Louis
Richmeier from Herzog
Riedel
Rohr from Mariental
Roth from Kamenka
Schamne from Graf
Scheck from Herzog
Schoenfeldt
Stecklein
Stramel from Kamenka
Untereiner
Wagner
Waldschmidt from Ober-Monjou
Weber
Weimer
Werth from Schönchen
Wilhelm
Windholz
Wittmann
Wolf
Younger from Herzog
Zerr
Ziegler
Zimmerman from Schönchen
- Burkard, Peter L. The History of Sacred Heart Church, Park, Kansas.
- 1920 Federal Census of Gove County (Eugene Jenkins)
- Sacred Heart Cemetery (findagrave.com)
Park, Kansas (Wikipedia)