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Persönliche Daten Arend Hendriks Nijmeyer 

• Er wurde geboren am 23. September 1818 in Kolderveen, Drenthe, Netherlands.
• Eingewandert im Jahr 1867.
• Er ist verstorben am 10. Januar 1905 in Milford Junction, Indiana (New Paris, Indiana), er war 86 Jahre alt.
• Er wurde beerdigt Januar 1905 in Maple Grove Church of the Bretheran Cemetery south of New Paris, Indiana.
• Ein Kind von Hendrik Jans Nijmeijer und Lammigjen Jans Jonker

Familie von Arend Hendriks Nijmeyer

Er ist verheiratet mit Fruike Barts Sijtzema.

Sie haben geheiratet am 14. November 1841 in Nijeveen, Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands, er war 23 Jahre alt.

Kind(er):

1. Margaret( Grietje) Nymeyer  1855-1935 
2. Jacob Arend Nijmeyer  1853-1916 
3. Charles Arend Nymeyer  1858-1918 
4. Frederik (Fred) A. Nymeyer  1862-1935 
5. John O. (Ora) Nymeyer  1859-1933 
6. Bart Aaron Nymeyer  1844-1925 
7. Lammigjen Arends Nijmeyer  1842-1921 
8. Hendrik Arend Nymeyer  1845-1924 
9. Saapje Arend Nijmeyer  1850-1936 
10. Johannes Nymeyer  1848-????

Notizen bei Arend Hendriks Nijmeyer

Maybe died Jan 16, 1905. Wife may have died 23 June 1905

Arend and Gertrude came to America in 1867, just after the civil war. InHolland he was a sailor and was a captain in the merchant marine servicefor many year. He was a Captain in the Dutch Royal Navy and was incommand of the Netherlands Silver Fleet. When he tired of being a sailor,he sought a country far inland and lived in ElkhartCo, Indiana. He was agraduate of Leyden University and could speak six languages fluently.
for the rest of his life.
discrepancy of birthday Sept. 22, 1812.
However Gertrude was of the Mennonite religion and that made adisagreement with the Royal House.

This letter was written by Fred Nymeyer to his son, Fred Aaron,Nymeyer,Jr in 1926 when Fred Aaron Nymeyer was living in Los Angeles, CA.

My father's family (Arend or Aaron Nymeyer) emigrated from Prussia, nowthe main province of Germany, several centuries ago. They settled inHolland and became tillers of the soil. Hence the name Nymeyer. NYmeaning new and Meyer, farmer. There seems to be some discrepancy in thespelling of the name , as the name carved on some old chests at homespelled it Nijmeier. How this came about I was never able to find out.

My mother's name was Sietssema. Do not know if the spelling is right orwrong. Her folks had lived on the same estate for centuries. In factthere is no record of the date they settled on it. It was near thevillage of Balk, province of F(v)riesland, Holland. They owned a largetract of land, flour mills, paper mills and various industrial plants ofthe primitive days. Everything was destroyed when the French were forcedto leave Holland due to great grandfather grandfather raising the flag ofOrange before they, the French evacuated Holland after the battle ofWaterloo. However it was rebuilt and prospered. My great grandfatherfollowed the French army on their fatal march on Moscow, Russia and losthis life when the Russians turned their criminals loose and left theFrench and their allies frozen on the battlefield.

My father was a captain of his own vessel who was at that time called askipper; a term yet applied in parts of the country. He cruised in theZuider and North Sea. His vessel was frozen in one cold winter and theremet my mother. The usual romance followed and that is why the Nymeyersare scattered all over the USA.( Bart always went along with his fatheron the blat, but when steamships came they did not have much business -another reason for going to America.) Arend is said to be cornmiller,later skipper and merchant

My father had an old friend who was banished from Holland. He was amember of the King's Court but was banished from his country due to somescurrilous remarks he made about the king. My father came to the USA onhis solicitation. From remarks I overheard when I was a very small boy,I have often thought they might have made it too hot for him due to hissympathy for the old exile. However I cannot verify the same.

Traveling about in his younger days my father accumulated much knowledgeand was sometimes called a dreamer. Many prediction he made have cometrue. Even the prediction of Julius Vern which was then considered anightmare, he said would come true in time. Read Julius Verne if youhave never read them.

Ten children were born to them. Seven boys, of whom I am the youngest. InHolland it is a custom for every boy to have his middle initial the sameas his father's first name.They all inherited the wanderlust of theirfather and are scattered all over the USA. Some made marks in the worldand others fell by the wayside as is the case in large families. However,jails and prisons have never claimed any of them to my knowledge. Thisis at least one distinction to be proud of. It is perhaps due to beingreared in the strict Mennenite church with its grueling discipline.

Bart and Johannes left for Goshen, Indiana. sometime before the rest of thefamily. The couple left Balk, for Indianna with eight children. Thefamily is then said to be Mennonite; original (1849) he is said to bereformed, she Mennonite Uncle Henry and Lucy were both married and didnot come to America until sometime later. Henry married Ada van Dyke whohad money so he could buy his folks flour mill where he had been working.

One cold winter night, about the time you were born, (1905) my father andmother were held up in their lonesome farmhouse by two men. While theydid them no harm the shock at their extreme age was fatal. Theysuccumbed a short time after. My father was 91 and my mother 80. I havealways felt remorse, being the youngest and of not staying on the farmwith them.

I have kept in touch with but few of them. The task was too great asthere were 101 direct descendents when the old folks died. There was oneBart Nymeyer a broker who operated between San Francisco and LosAngeles. Jimmy Hopkins (his stepson) met him and said he was a swellfellow. I knew him when a child. He was a promising lad. His brotheris president of Salem National Bank of Goshen, Indiana.

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