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Sarah Loewen Plett: wife, mother, and pioneer immigrant, was born on 12 September 1822 in [[Lindenau (Molotschna Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)|Lindenau]], [[Molotschna Mennonite Settlement (Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)|Molotschna Colony]], [[Russia|Russia]], to Isaak and Margaretha (Wiens) Loewen. She was the sixth of 15 children in the family. Sarah was baptized in the [[Kleine Gemeinde|&lt;em&gt;Kleine Gemeinde&lt;/em&gt; ]]church in 1841. On 26 October 1841, she married Cornelius Plett (1820-1900) in Lindenau.  In 1854 Sarah and Cornelius Plett moved to Kleefeld, Molotschna Colony and in 1872 they moved to Blumenhof, [[Borozenko Mennonite Settlement (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine)|Borozenko Colony]]. The couple had 16 children, four of whom died as children and another two of whom died quite young. The family immigrated to [[Canada|Canada]] on 18 June 1875. Sarah died on 3 March 1903 in Blumenort, [[Manitoba (Canada)|Manitoba]].
= Bibliography =
GRANDMA (The <strong>G</strong>enealogical <strong>R</strong>egistry <strong>an</strong>d <strong>D</strong>atabase of <strong>M</strong>ennonite <strong>A</strong>ncestry) Database, 5.03 ed. Fresno, CA: California Mennonite Historical Society, 2007: #6669. 

Plett, Delbert F.  “Sarah Loewen Plett 1822-1903: Cream Pitchers.”  <em>Preservings</em> No. 12 (June 1998): 96-98.
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