Louisa DIENO ¹

  General Notes:

It is believed that her father was of French ancestry. He was the village schoolmaster until he went into a retail business.

After Heinrich died in 1910 Loisa moved to Parkston, South Dakota into a home that he had bought for their retirement. Parkston may have been selected for retirement because Louisa had a half-sister, married to Jakob Weidenbach living in this town. (from a family history written by Erhardt R. Hehn, 1981)

Louisa married Heinrich SCHENK, son of Christof SCHENK and THERESA, on 22 December 1871 in Benkendorf, Bessarabia, Russia. (Heinrich SCHENK was born on 2 February 1839 in , , , Russia and died in 1910 in Utica, Yankton Co., South Dakota.)

  Marriage Notes:

In 1873 they emigrated to the Dakota Territory and in 1874 filed on a homestead seven miles north of Utica, South Dakota. Life was hard for the wandering German Russian family. Two teenage boys, William and Herman, and two infant daughters, both named Theresa, died of diptheria. They lived on the homestead farm for 37 years until the death of Heinrich.