Il est marié avec Harmptje Boer.
Ils se sont mariés le 18 avril 1880 à Kampen, Overijssel, NL , il avait 26 ans.
Enfant(s):
Birth: FHL Vital Statistics records Kampen, Netherlands
film #432666, page 307, year 1853.
Marriage: FHL Vital Statistics records Kampen, Netherlands
film #432693, page 38, year 1880.
Death: Vital Statistics records Pipestone County, Minnesota,
USA, document #11885, year 1928.
In February of 1893, Willem and Harmptje and their seven children boarded the
S.S. Veendam in Rotterdam to start a new life in America. They landed in New
York on the 25th of February 1893 heading for Orange City, Iowa. All immigrants
had to go through Ellis Island to undergo various tests to determine whether
they were eligilbe for admission to the United States. In Orange City the
oldest and the youngest children died of diptheria. Willem received his
citizenship paper on 09 February 1904. Another child died in 1907 of typhoid
fever. In 1910 they moved to Pipestone County, Minnesota. As of 1989 the
farmhouse that Willem and his children built was still standing. Some of the
trees and windbreaks are also still standing. In 1914 Willem and Harmpje moved
in to the town of Edgerton, Minnesota and retired there.
Willem Westera | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harmptje Boer |
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