Er ist verheiratet mit Froukje Wiegers van der Lune.
Sie haben geheiratet am 30. Mai 1822 in Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Netherlands, er war 23 Jahre alt.
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Epke Alberts Roorda was born on July 6, 1798, in Rinsumageest, Dantumadeel, the Netherlands. He was the son of Albert Egberts van den Akker and Henke Izaaks Roorda.
On May 30, 1822, in Ferwerd, Ferwerderadeel, the Netherlands, he married Froukje Wiegers van der Lune. She was born on September 7, 1800, at Hallum, Ferwerderadeel, the Netherlands, the daughter of Wieger Pieters van der Lune and Antje Gerrits Kooi.
Epke and Froukje begot eleven children, of which two died young. Antje Epkes Roorda, 1823-1823, and Izaaek Epkes Roorda, 1828-1831, were born and died in Dantumawoude.
Epke was a painter and glassmaker and later kept a boarding house. The family left Dantumawoude to go to Pella in America in 1857 with four children: Hendrick, Gerrit, Hinke and Ruurt. Three children had preceded them: Wieger and Anne in April 1855, and Izaak in 1853 or 1854. According to the book "History of Pella" the couple took various bushes and plants with them to America including plum trees, rhubarb and roses. They were fervent garden lovers aside from their regular occupations. In Marion County Epke resumed his old job of painting, just like his son Wieger, and in his spare time he painted landscapes on glass. The other sons sought their luck in farming.
Two children remained in the Netherlands: Albert Epkes Roorda (1825-1902) and Antje Epkes Roorda (1836-1911).
Their son Hendrik Epkes Roorda was born in 1839 in Dantumawoude, and died on August 18, 1862, in Corinth, Mississippi, as a Union soldier in the Civil War. He served with the 17th Iowa Volunteers, Company H. He is buried in the Corinth National Cemetery.
Epke Alberts Roorda died on December 19, 1884, and Froukje Wiegers van der Lune died on April 14, 1879, both in Pella.
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