Family tree Dijkstra » Cyrus Silas Cye Dykstra (1911-1944)

Personal data Cyrus Silas Cye Dykstra 

  • He was born on November 19, 1911 in Poweshiek Township, Jasper County, Iowa, United States.Source 1
    Lizzie Moes
    mentioned in the record of Silas Dykstra
    NameLizzie Moes
    genderFemale
    HusbandChas. Dykstra
    SonSilas Dykstra
    Other information in the record of Silas Dykstra
    from Iowa, County Births
    NameSilas Dykstra
    Event TypeBirth
    Event Date19 Nov 1911
    Event PlaceJasper, Iowa, United States
    GenderMale
    Father's NameChas. Dykstra
    Mother's NameLizzie Moes
    Citing this Record
    "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XVXR-89L : 10 March 2018), Lizzie Moes in entry for Silas Dykstra, 19 Nov 1911; citing Jasper, Iowa, United States; county district courts, Iowa; FHL microfilm 1,863,300.
  • He died on February 17, 1944 in Mingo, Jasper County, Iowa, United States, he was 32 years old.
    Cye Dykstra
    Find A Grave Index
    Name:Cye Dykstra
    Event Type:Burial
    Event Date:1944
    Event Place:Mingo, Jasper, Iowa, United States of America
    Event Place (Original):Mingo, Jasper, Iowa, United States of America
    Age (Estimated):33
    Photograph Included:Y
    Birth Date:19 Nov 1911
    Death Date:17 Feb 1944
    Cemetery:Graham Cemetery
    Note:Contains Biography
    Affiliate Record Identifier:133420394
    Affiliate Image Identifier:133420394

    Cye Dykstra
    BillionGraves
    Geboorte: 19 nov 1911
    Overlijden: 17 feb 1944
    Begrafenis: Graham Cemetery, Mingo, Iowa, United States
  • He is buried in Graham Cemetery, Mingo, United States.
  • A child of Charles Tjeerd Jacobus, Dijkstra and Elizabeth (Lizzie) Lammerts Moes
  • This information was last updated on August 30, 2022.

Household of Cyrus Silas Cye Dykstra

He is married to Ionia Waneitta Baldwin.

They got married June 1934 at Mingo, Jasper County, United States, he was 22 years old.Source 2


Child(ren):

  1. (Not public)


Notes about Cyrus Silas Cye Dykstra

In January 1920 Cyrus Dykstra (8 years old, born in Iowa), his father Charles Dykstra (46, Holland, stock farmer), mother Elibeath (Holland, 36), and siblings Jennie (16, Iowa), Bert (15, Iowa), Cobus (13, Iowa), Clara (11, Iowa), Dora (10, Iowa), Elizabeth (5, Iowa) and David (3, Iowa) were living in Rock Creek Township [postoffice Turner, a former town], located about 25 miles northeast of Pella and 10 miles north of the city of Sully, Jasper County, in the center of Iowa.

In April 1930 Cye Dykstra (18, farm laborer), his father Chas Dykstra (56, farmer), mother Elizabeth (46), and siblings Elizabeth (17), David (13) and Rose Ellen (7, Iowa) were living at a rented farm in Clear Creek Township, located in the far northwest corner of Jasper County and about 30 miles northwest of Pella, Iowa.

On June 1934 farmer Cyrus Dykstra, born in Colfax, Jasper County, was united in marriage at the age of 23 yeas to the one year younger Jonia Baldwin, born in Mingo, on her parent's farm, located northwest of the small city of Mingo, about 20 miles northeast of Des Moines, Jasper County, Iowa. Witnesses were his brother David Dykstra and Lucylle Baldwin.
In March 1942 they adopted a son, Arlen Ross Dykstra.
Cye Dykstra died in February 1944 at the age of 32 years. His widow Ionia died in July 2007 at the age of 94 years at her home in Cambridge, the capital of Iowa.

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    Sources

    1. "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XVXR-89L : 10 March 2018), Lizzie Moes in entry for Silas Dykstra, 19 Nov 1911; citing Jasper, Iowa, United States; county district courts, Iowa; FHL microfilm 1,863,300.
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    Historical events

    Birthday November 19, 1911

    • The temperature on November 19, 1911 was between 3.2 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
      • April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
      • June 22 » George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
      • August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
      • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
      • November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
      • November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.

    Day of death February 17, 1944

    • The temperature on February 17, 1944 was between -2.4 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
      • January 30 » World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
      • February 3 » World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
      • February 14 » World War II: In the Action of 14 February 1944, a Royal Navy submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian submarine in the Strait of Malacca.
      • March 24 » World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
      • April 25 » The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
      • September 25 » World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.
    

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