Mela Meisner Lindsay was born of Volga-German parents in Kindsvater Chutor on the Don Artchada in South Russia, near the Don Cossack border. Her father, David Phillip Meisner, was born in Tscherbokowka; her mother, Eva Elisabeth Dietz, in Podschinnaja (Kratzke). The family came to the United States in the spring of 1905, after the Russo-Japanese War, in which her father served as a soldier of the czar. They settled on a farm south of WaKeeney, Trego County, Kansas. - from http://www.beckyjamison.com/2/post/20...Mela Meisner Lindsay was born of Volga-German parents in Kindsvater Chutor on the Don Artchada in South Russia, near the Don Cossack border. Her father, David Phillip Meisner, was born in Tscherbokowka; her mother, Eva Elisabeth Dietz, in Podschinnaja (Kratzke). The family came to the United States in the spring of 1905, after the Russo-Japanese War, in which her father served as a soldier of the czar. They settled on a farm south of WaKeeney, Trego County, Kansas. - from http://www.beckyjamison.com/2/post/20......more