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Plaats: Reformed Church in America
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Vertrekplaats: Pella, Iowa, USA
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Hij is getrouwd met Areke KUIJNTJES.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 5 december 1861 te Brakel, Netherlands, hij was toen 26 jaar oud.
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Also known as "Henry". Arrived in Pella, IA from Holland in 1867, at the age of 33, with his family. Lived in Lake Prairie Township of Marion County, IA (1870 Census). (The port of his arrival is uncertain) He worked for Pierre Henri Bousquet, clearing timber, building rail fence, gardening, and raising tobacco to earn money. It took two hundred dollars in Dutch money to buy one hundred dollars in American money. He worked in the coal mines and in the timber business. He died from the "Black Plague" also called Black Diptheria. The disease was so contagious that funerals were not held, and the dead were buried as soon as a coffin could be made. Oakwood Cemetery (Pella, IA) records list death caused by Scarlatina. Nine of the thirteen children died in infancy.
The 1870 Census (Page 20, entry 175) for the city of Pella, Marion county, IA listed him and his wife Aarke.
Marriage date is either 5 Dec 1861 or 28 Sep 1862. One source said that nine children died in infancy.
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