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Peter “Two Lives Five Wives” Penner

Birth	:	13 Feb 1816 Russia
Death	:	27 Apr 1884 Blumenort, Steinbach Census Division, Manitoba, Canada
Burial	:	Original Blumenort Evangelical Mennonite Cemetery, Blumenort, Steinbach Census Division, Canada
Description	:	The elderly Peter Penner, earlier from Margenau, Russia, and finally Blumenort, is no longer alive, he died on the 27th of April, 1884. -Report of his death in the Mennonitische Rundschau, March 6, 1907, page 9 PETER PENNER HAD TWO LIVES AND FIVE WIVES While still living in the Molotschna Colony and when he was only 13, Peter Penner fell from a horse and twisted his neck. He lay so still that his family and the neighbors considered him dead. Funeral preparations were made, the body was washed and laid out on a table. Relatives gathered around the table to sing some hymns.... Read More	The elderly Peter Penner, earlier from Margenau, Russia, and finally Blumenort, is no longer alive, he died on the 27th of April, 1884. -Report of his death in the Mennonitische Rundschau, March 6, 1907, page 9 PETER PENNER HAD TWO LIVES AND FIVE WIVES While still living in the Molotschna Colony and when he was only 13, Peter Penner fell from a horse and twisted his neck. He lay so still that his family and the neighbors considered him dead. Funeral preparations were made, the body was washed and laid out on a table. Relatives gathered around the table to sing some hymns. When they left, one of the relatives noticed that young Peter's head wasn't facing straight up, so he returned to straighten it. As he did so, Peter opened his eyes and it was discovered that he was still alive. How surprised and joyous relatives were one can only assume. Afterwards it was theorized that Peter's neck had twisted so that he was paralyzed. Later on, this Peter was to outlive four wives and be the father of 25 children. The story is told by John D. Penner, a great-grandson, that Peter Penner in his old age insisted that any problems he had with his fifth wife were surely not his fault because he had learned to live with four previous wives. -From "Blumenort", by Royden Loewen, 2nd edition, p. 196-7 Peter Penner is the patriarch of all Kleine Gemeinde and Holdeman (Church of God in Christ, Mennonite) Penners. In Russia he lived in Rosenfeld, Borosenko. After moving to Manitoba, he settled down at the west end of the Blumenort village to become a leading farmer there. By the time he died he had built a large house and three barns, and broken 54 acres. He was also the second man in the village to own a portable steam engine. He is remembered as a talkative person, capable of quick decisions. He died in 1884, after having been sick in bed for four weeks. Most of his descendants live in Blumenort, Greenland, and Steinbach. His second wife, Katherina, was the daughter of Abram Rempel; his fourth wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of Cornelius F. Friesen. His fifth wife was a Mrs. Heinrich Friesen who had come to Canada in 1876 and to Manitoba in 1877, where she settled at Hochstadt. In 1881, when she married Peter Penner, she brought her family to Blumenort. In 1891 she married Rev. Peter Baerg. She is buried in Blumenort. -From "Blumenort", by Royden Loewen, 2nd edition, p. 289

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Peter “Two Lives Five Wives” Penner's memorial is located at: Original Blumenort Evangelical Mennonite Cemetery, Blumenort, Steinbach Census Division, Canada.
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Peter “Two Lives Five Wives” Penner death on 27 Apr 1884 in Blumenort, Steinbach Census Division, Manitoba, Canada

Family Members:

Spouse

Mrs Katharina Schellenberg Berg

(1824 - 1901)

Children

Peter H Penner

(1839 - 1916)

Sr Abraham R. Penner

(1847 - 1918)

Rev Martin Rempel Penner

(1849 - 1928)

Aron R. Penner

(1852 - 1892)

Sr Cornelius R Penner

(1854 - 1899)

Elizabeth Penner Wiebe

(1865 - 1949)

Heinrich Harder Penner

(1866 - 1925)

Maria Penner Toews

(1869 - 1910)

Klaas F. Penner

(1875 - 1939)

Jacob F. Penner

(1879 - 1944)

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