Nola Mayes wrote on the back of this photo that the man standing at the corner of the depot (follow the corner of the building down to the man in the background) with the bowler was Rev. August Mundt, c. 1887.


Rev. August Friedrich Wilhelm Mundt graduated from the Concordia College, Springfield, Il. in 1887 and was called to Ellendale, Dakota Territory. In a report to the LC-MS in 1889, he reported preaching at 13 different places and said “I cannot hold out much longer, my strength is half gone. Five or six days out on the prairie in a wagon, sometimes without food or drink, is more than a weak person can stand very long.” He was at Ellendale 1887-1901; Montrose, IL, 1891-1902; Salem, Forest Green, MO, 1902-1904; moved to Pittsburg, KS, 1904 and died of tuberculosis Oct. 31, 1905. Theodor, his third child, was the father of Nola Mundt Mayes.