Brighton

HISTORY

By the early 1900s Volga Germans from the Russian colonies Frank, Dietel, Dreispitz, Marienfeld, Oberdorf, Shcherbakovka, and Herzog settled in Brighton.

The following Volga German families are known to have settled in Brighton:

Amend
Appelhans
Barth
Batt
Beierle
Beisel
Bender
Berger
Busch
Crispen
Deines
Ehrlich
Els
Frank
Gettmann
Greenemeier
Greenewaldt
Heinze
Hill
Hollmann
Horst
Kaltenberger
Keller
Kerbs
Krämer
Kraus
Lambrecht
Lesser
Lutz
Meier
Michel
Miller
Miltenberger
Nazarenus
Pfenning
Richter
Ritter
Roth
Schäfer
Schön
Schick
Schissler
Schmidt
Schwab
Sewald
Stegman
Wagner
Wolf
Wollert
Zeiler
Ziegler

VOLGA GERMAN CONGREGATIONS

Zion Congregational Church

Zion Lutheran Church