Berthoud was originally settled by miners involved in the Colorado Gold Rush in the early 1860s. Farmers arrived shortly thereafter, and irrigation enabled the agricultural economy to flourish.
Volga German families settled in and around Berthoud.
Historically, Ober-Klingen (and its neighboring Nieder-Klingen) were located in the Kurpfalz (Electorate of the Pfalz) until 1803. For a brief time, they belonged to the Landgrafschaft of Hessen-Darmstadt, but were split in 1806 with Ober-Klingen staying with Hessen-Darmstadt and Nieder-Klingen coming under territories controlled by the Lords of Löwenstein-Wertheim.
Today, Ober-Klingen is administratively part of the municipality of Otzberg.
Church:
Kirchstraße 7
64853 Otzberg/Lengfeld
Johann Heinrich Weber was born 26 February 1749 in Oberklingen, the son of Johann Heinrich Weber and his wife Anna Catharina.
Heinrich Weber, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 11 August 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Citadel under the command of Midshipman Gregory Bukharin along with his cousin Anna Maria Weber, daughter of Johann Heinrich Weber of Oberklingen & Elisabeth Christina Sophia Kroh of König.
They are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Martin Müller was born 19 March 1746 in Bingenheim. His brother Lorenz Müller was born 29 November 1742 in Bingenheim. They were both sons of Johann Eberhard Müller and Elisabeth Catharina Walter.
Martin Müller, a single farmer, and his brother Lorenz arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Peter Limpert, son of Georg Limpert & Dorothea Müller, married on 13 September 1718 in Gersfeld to Eva Rosina Meier, daughter of Heinrich Meier.
The baptisms of two sons born in the village of Unterhof to Peter Limpert & Eva Rosina Meier are recorded in the parish register of Gersfeld: (1) Johann Kaspar, born 2 October 1725; and (2) Johann Christoph, born 19 April 1728.
Volga German immigrants settled in Weatherford, Oklahoma.
Johann Karg, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Nikolaus, age 12; Maria, age 6) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Johann Georg Karg (age 36), a farmer, his wife Anna Maria (age 41), and children (Johann Nikolaus, age 12; Maria Elisabeth, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Frank in Household No. 17. They had arrived in Frank in 1767.
Johannes Heitzenröder, son of Georg Heitzenröder and Anna Müller, was born 11 October 1722 in Gersfeld. He married Anna Katharina Heun on 18 Nov 1751.
Johann[es] Heitzenreder, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Elisabeth, age 14; Barbara, age 12; Johann, age 9; Peter, age 7; Peter [again], age 5¼; Andreas, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Two Grünwald families from Groß-Felda migrated to the Volga German colonies. Both are descendants of Hartmann Grünewald who was buried on 11 May 1670 in Kestrich.
(1) Johann Kaspar Grünwald, son of Hans Kasper Grünwald & Anna Elisabeth Scharmann, was born 4 February 1723 in Groß-Felda. He married on 12 August 1744 to Anna Katharina Eißfeller, daughter of Johann Conrad Eißfeller & Anna Catharina Dietz. She had been born 17 May 1718 in Groß-Felda.