His great, great-grandson Johann Cornies (1898-1919) was killed by bandits during the Russian Revolution. This was the last male descendant of Johann Cornies (1789-1848) so his remaining descendants to this day do not carry the Cornies surname.
In 2004, bicentennial celebrations were held in Molotschna and the contributions of this Johann Cornies were recognized. The following newspaper article describes some of the planned celebrations at that time:
Plans were also made to unveil a monument in memory of Johann Cornies. The monument was planned to look like this:
Perhaps a reader of this post has been on one of the Mennonite Heritage Cruises to the old Molotschna settlement of Ukraine or knows of someone who has visited these sites and has taken photographs. It would be greatly appreciated if photographs of these sites were forwarded to wcornies@live.ca
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