Places connected with the families
The addresses, estates, graves and camps connected with both families.
In this chapter
| Place | Connection | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Tartu 11, Viljandi | Leoke bookshop and family home, 1909–1936; also the address recorded for Elmar Oswald, Hilda and their daughters in an undated household-book annotation. | Now the Grand Hotel Viljandi |
| Tartu 9 | Ado Tõllasepp’s house; the shop’s home c. 1907–09. Still standing. | Next to the Grand Hotel |
| Tartu 15, Lossi street, Jakobsoni/Koidu corner | Earlier shop sites, 1891–1907. | Viljandi old town |
| Viljandi Museum | Hans’s archive library, the 1913 bust, family photographs. | Johan Laidoneri plats 10 |
| Viljandi Old Cemetery | Grave of Hans, Mari and Jaan Leoke. | Riia mnt; Pauluse IX, 124-8 |
| School building at Hariduse 2 | Pilvi recalled attending school here; attendance years and historical institutional name remain uncertain. Now Viljandi Gümnaasium. | Viljandi |
| Vana-Võidu (Alt-Woidoma) manor estate: Wardja Matzi, Saare Annuse and Kangilaski farms; Arumetsa | Hans’s birthplace (Wardja Matzi) and childhood home (Saare Annuse); Mari Tõllasepp’s birthplace (Kangilaski); Hans’s school, 1876–1890. | Near Viljandi |
| Kudewitte and Kivistik, Viljandi manor | Homes of the Meomüttel family; Hilda’s birthplace (Kivistik). | Near Viljandi |
| Suure-Kõpu (Louisenhütte) | Birthplace of Peter and Elmar Oswald Leoke. | Kõpu, west of Viljandi |
| Old Harbour (Vanasadam) | Departure harbor for evacuation ships in September 1944; the Leokes’ ship remains unidentified. | Tallinn, north of the Old Town |
| Baltischportstraße 42 | Elmar Oswald’s family’s last address in Estonia, 1944. | Paldiski mnt, Tallinn |
| Räpina paper mill | Where Elmar Oswald was deputy director and chief accountant, before 1944. | Põlva County, southeastern Estonia |
| Karksi manor and park | Where Elmar Koik was born and his family lived. The steward’s house is now a village museum. | Karksi village, Pargi street |
| Battle of Karksi memorial | The fight for the manor, 4–5 January 1919. | Karksi village |
| St Peter’s Church, Karksi | The Karksi parish church. | Karksi-Nuia |
| Õisu (Euseküll) | Birthplace of Els Rantsus (1844) and Juhan Koik (1881); where Märt Koik died in 1874. | Paistu parish |
| Vana-Kariste (Alt-Karrishof) | Home of Hans and Kert Koik at Kama Peter farm and of Märt and Mari Koik; Peeter’s birthplace (Sönni farm, 1849). | Halliste parish |
| Bad Windsheim, Bavaria | The Leokes’ refuge, 1944–48; Virve’s burial in the old section, grave no. 110a, according to the 1951 list. | Mittelfranken, Germany |
| Mörlbach | Where Virve was killed, 26 February 1945. | Gallmersgarten, Germany |
| Wichita, Kansas | The US address on Pilvi’s 1947 airline manifest (487 S. …ackley Drive); whether she lived there is not known. | Kansas |
| 138 Witmer Street | Peter Leoke’s address by May 1943; in 1950 the home of Peter, Elmar Oswald, Hilda and Pilvi. | Los Angeles |
| Forest Lawn Memorial Park | Grave of Peter Leoke, Elmar Oswald and Hilda, in one lot. | Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles |
Leoke familyThe bookshop addresses
| Years | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1891–1896 | Corner of today’s Jakobsoni and Koidu streets (then Veski and Harjutuse), in the Hentson house | The first shop: 18 m², rent 80 rubles a year. |
| 1896–1900 | Lossi street, Lohrberg house | Hans now ran the shop himself. |
| 1900–1907 | Tartu 15, in the Graf house | Formerly a tavern and beer shop. |
| Same period | Lossi 16 | A small grocery and haberdashery with toys and funeral wreaths, run in Mari’s name. |
| c. 1907–1909 | Tartu 9 | A modern building owned by Ado Tõllasepp, whose own printing house and bookshop were also there. The lease ended in 1909. |
| 1909–1936 | Tartu 11 | The shop and family home. Hans lived and worked here until he died in 1919, and his son Jaan carried on the shop. The site is now the Grand Hotel Viljandi. |
Leoke familyThe grave at the Old Cemetery
Hans, Mari and their eldest son Jaan share a three-person plot in the Viljandi Old Cemetery (Vana kalmistu) on Riia maantee: Pauluse section IX, plot 124-8. It sits at the north edge of the cemetery, next to the roundabout.
| Buried | Born | Died | Buried on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hans Leoke | 27.12.1852 (O.S.) | 16.08.1919 | 20.08.1919 |
| Mari Leoke, née Tõllasepp | 05.05.1867 | 18.02.1954 | 23.02.1954, reburied here 23.02.1957 |
| Jaan Leoke | 14.11.1886 | 17.03.1959 | 22.03.1959 |
The table reproduces the cemetery register, which gives Hans’s birth date in Old Style, as on his stone, and the other dates in New Style.
The Soviet town government closed the Old Cemetery to burials from 1 January 1954, and Mari died seven weeks later. She was buried instead at the Pauluse cemetery on Pärnu road, and was moved to the family plot in 1957, once the ban was lifted.
