August Schmeelk schreibt an seine Eltern in Ringstedt

August Schmeelk worked as a farmer on a farm in Ringstedt. Four of his siblings (Emma, Bertha, Peter and ?) emigrated to the United States around 1905 in the hope of better career prospects. August Schmeelk, the oldest male descendant of the family, inherited the farm and continued to work on the farm there until 1914. At the beginning of the war that same year he was called up into the Imperial A…