Peetoom Joannes Ruiter (Heeten)
He is married to Geertruida Maria Weust.
They got married on January 14, 1903 at Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, United States, he was 24 years old.
Born Gerhardus Johannes Nieuwmeijer on October 14, 1878 in Geersteren, Tubbergen Municipality, The Netherlands. Youngest of four children of Johannes Gerhardus Nieuwmeijer and Wilhelmina Ruiter Nieuwmeijer. Immigrated with his parents and two older siblings, Bernard and Anna from Rotterdam on the P. Caland on 10 September 1881. Lived his entire life in Terre Haute. His Father and two older siblings are buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Terre Haute, his mother buried beside him, and his oldest brother Gerhardus Johannes Nieuwmeijer, who died at the age of five, is buried in the family cemetery in Geersteren. His first house was at the corner of 25th and Locust and then bought 48.1 acres south of town across from what is now the Vigo County fairgrounds. Worked as a moulder at the Terre Haute Car Company, an iron worker and blacksmith at Highland Foundry, a warehouseman at Oakley's Economy Store, a truck farmer and a gardner.
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