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Personal data Gerrit (Met) de Mots 

  • He was born on May 4, 1886 in New Holland.
  • (Begraafplaats) in the year 1957.
    Burial:
    Memory Gardens Sioux Center Cemetery
    Sioux Center
    Sioux County
    Iowa, USA
  • He died on June 26, 1957 in Sioux, IA (Iowa), he was 71 years old.
  • A child of Gerrit de Mots and Evertje Schuurkamp
  • This information was last updated on November 8, 2012.

Household of Gerrit (Met) de Mots


Notes about Gerrit (Met) de Mots

Gerrit De Mots services held at Sioux Center
SIOUX CENTER — Funeral services for Gerrit De Mots, 71, longtime Sioux Center school district secretary and civic leader, were held Saturday, June 29, in the Central Reformed church. Mr. De Mots died last Wednesday after a long illness. Rev. M. Klaaren officiated and burial was in the community cemetery.

Mr. De Mots served as secretary of the Sioux Center Independent school district for 47 consecutive years until his death, and also had been a member of the Sioux county school board.

He was the first manager of the Sioux Center Mutual Telephone Co. about 50 years ago and had been a partner in the De Ruyter Hardware Co. here until his retirement four years ago. He had been in the lumber business 35 years.

Born in New Holland, S. Dak., May 4, 1886, he came to Sioux Center at the age of three years and have lived there since. He had taught Sunday school and was a member of the church consistory at the Central Reformed church and was a charter trustee of the Sioux Center hospital board.

Survivors include the widow, Elizabeth; two daughters, Mrs. Janeva Boeyink of Sioux Center and Mrs. Arlene Winterson of Pittsburgh, Pa.; a son, R. Glenn of Hollywood, Calif., three sisters, two brothers and eight grandchildren.

Sioux County Capital 1957-07-04.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerrit (Met) de Mots

Hendrik de Mots
1833-1878
Elisabeth Doppenberg
1832-1872
Gerrit Schuurkamp
1828-1911
Jacoba Toes
1833-1886

Gerrit (Met) de Mots
1886-1957


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    Historical events

    Birthday May 4, 1886

    • The temperature on May 4, 1886 was about 13.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 24%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
      • January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
      • May 1 » Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
      • May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
      • June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
      • July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
      • July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.

    Day of death June 26, 1957

    • The temperature on June 26, 1957 was between 4.9 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
      • March 17 » A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
      • May 3 » Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
      • July 6 » John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
      • September 22 » In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
      • October 14 » At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.
      • October 14 » The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the Queen of Canada.
    

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