(All information as told to Diane Korf By Helen Bones in June of 1994)- While Elizabeth and Anton sent all the other sons out of the country when they reached age the age of 14 or 15, so they wouldn't be forced to join the army, Joe refused to leave. He married, had 2 children, and joined the Russian Army. After WWI, (probably) during the (February Revolution ABT 1917), he went out to seek food for the family and was found lying, starved to death in a ditch by the side of the road. (outside St. Petersburg?) His wife later remarried a man with the surname of Mueller, they had 2 children: a girl and a boy. During WWII the Germans took him away, probably to a concentration camp and she never saw him again. It is believed that after this happened she moved in with Joe's mother, Elizabeth, who's second husband _____ Duescher had passed on. When Elizabeth died the Russian government took possession of the property, a house and 1 or 2 acres of land, and displaced the daughted-in-law, as she was not a blood relative. The woman then moved to the English zone- Heidleburg. Her children remained there or went back to Odessa OR she was sent back and the kids are still there. She corresponded with Adam Reiss as he was the only one of Balthaser's children who could read and write the German language, he may still have the letters. -(end quote) It is very probable that this Joe is the child of Elizabeth and her second husband.
spelling got changed to RICE by imigration