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Langham Emmanuel Cemetery

Name of R.M.: Corman Park No: 344
Name of Cemetery: Emmanuel Cemetery
Name of Community: Langham
Condition of Cemetery: Well Kept
Approximate number of burials: 216
Ownership of Cemetery: Emmanuel Baptist Church
Legal Land Location: NE 02-38-07 W 3rd
Directions from Langham: 4 miles east on Hwy # 16,
to Struan Corner (Twp Road 390), Turn right (south),
on to Range road #3071, go 5 miles.
On west side of road you see the church & cemetery.
Recorded by: Catherine & Lesley Masuk
Date of Submission: May 2005
Contact Person: Randy Waldner Phone: 1-306-283-4778
Comments: Mr. Joe Waldner says the Church and cemetery were founded in 1917. There are some Americans buried here, who left the USA before WWI

Some Additional History:
From 1874 to 1879, except for several families, all the Hutterites left Russia (what is now Ukraine) and emigrated to South Dakota, USA. Aproximately one-third of the Hutterites established colonies in South Dakota while the rest took up homesteads. In the 1890s several families that owned their own land moved to Manitoba. In 1901 several more families emigrated to the Langham area. They were joined in the next 2 to 4 years with more families from both the USA and Manitoba.

None of the Manitoba people remained there. Some of them moved back to South Dakota.Those who did not move to Langham, moved to other locations in Saskatchewan.
These non-colony Hutterites remained very close as a group. However, they did go to two different churches. One was Bethesda Mennonite Church just outside of Langham. The other group established Emmanuel K.M. Church. They met in private homes, local schools and finally built the church in 1917.