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• Hij is geboren op 1 januari 1896 in Zalk en Veecaten.
• Hij is overleden op 1 augustus 1938 in Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa, USA, hij was toen 42 jaar oud.

  VanDyke, Cornelius ("Case"), 1898-1938
  Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
  Date: 6/7/2013 at 08:44:05
  
  ROCK VALLEY SECTION FOREMAN KILLED BY TRAIN
  Case Van Dyke, section foreman on the railroad in Rock Valley, was fatally injured Monday morning about 8 o'clock when a locomotive and caboose crashed into a motor car on which he was riding, breaking both his arms and legs and causing internal injuries from which he died a few hours later.
  
  Mr. Van Dyke and Gerrit Kersbergen were returning to town on an errand, and were about three miles west of Rock Valley when the tragedy occurred. Mr. Kersbergen jumped when he saw the train coming but Van Dyke stayed with the car hoping to make siding. The train brought Mr. Van Dyke to town where he was rushed to the Hull hospital in the Vander Ploeg ambulance. He died within a few hours.
  
  He leaves to mourn his grief-stricken wife and nine children, the youngest of whom is a two-week-old baby.
  
  Source: Sioux Center News, August 4, 1968.
  
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  Rock Valley:--Mr. Cornelius Van Dyke, who was killed in the locomotive and rail motor car collision on Monday, August 1, was born in the Netherlands, January 1, 1896, where he grew to manhood. He was united in marriage with Miss Alice Evink in May, 1918. Two years later Mr. and Mrs. Van Dyke and the two older children John and Angeline came to this country where Mr. Van Dyke obtained employment with the Milwaukee Railroad Co. as a section hand soon after his arrival in this country. His faithful services won him the position as section foreman on the Rock Valley section after a few years service at the neighboring town of Hull.
  
  The family moved here seven years ago from Hull and since that time Mr. Van Dyke has been foreman up to the time of his death. He also served as foreman at Garner, Spencer and Hull.
  
  Mr. Van Dyke leaves to mourn his sudden passing his wife and nine children, namely, John, Angeline, Everdena, Bertha, Tillie, Tony, Alice Jane, Gerrit John, and Cornelia. He also leaves his aged parents, two brothers and four sisters in the Netherlands.
  
  Funeral services were held at the home at 1:30 and at the First Ref. Church in Rock Valley at 2:00 o'clock. The services were conducted by Rev. H. J. Aberson on Wednesday afternoon. Interment took place in the new division of the Valley View cemetery.
  
  Mrs. Frank Gunnink and Mrs. James Vander Ploeg sang "Sometime We'll Understand," with Mrs. Jake Vander Weerd play[ing] the accompaniment and funeral march. A number of railway men attended the funeral in a body and six section hands acted as pallbearers to carry one of their brother workmen to his final resting place. Several large sprays of flowers marked the feelings of his fellow men.
  
  Source: Sioux Center News, August 11, 1938.
  The obituary was also published in the Sioux County Capital, August 11.
  
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  Case Van Dyke In Fatal Accident
  
  Case Van Dyke, section foreman for the Milwaukee Road here, met with an accident Monday morning which caused his death a few hours later. Mr. Van Dyke and Gerrit Kersbergen had gone out with a motor car to look over the tracks and were traveling back east towards Rock Valley when they met an engine and caboose going west. The accident happened about three and one-half miles west of Rock Valley.
  
  Gerrit jumped from the car and escaped injury, but Mr. Van Dyke failed to jump and met the on-coming engine head on. Both of his legs were badly broken and crushed, both arms were broken and he was injured otherwise. He was taken back to the Rock Valley depot and Dr. A. L. Lock, railroad physician, was summoned who gave him first aid and ordered him taken to the Hull hospital. The accident happened at about 8:30 o'clock and he died in the Hull hospital at about 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon.
  
  This is a most regrettable accident. Mr. Van Dyke leaves his wife and nine children, the oldest boy being 19, and the youngest a babe of about three weeks. He is also survived by his parents, two brothers and four sisters in the Netherlands. He had served as section foreman here for the past seven years, coming here from Hull. Prior to coming to Rock Valley, he served as section foreman at Garner, Spencer and Hull. He was a man who was well thought of wherever he was known. He was a kind husband and father, and a good citizen and he will be greatly missed here by his family and friends.
  
  [The rest of the obit repeats the information about his early life, and a brief note about the funeral services.]
  
  Source: Rock Valley Bee, August 5, 1938.
  
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  ROCK VALLEY MAN KILLED BY TRAIN
  Didn't Jump as Hand Car Hits Engine
  Van Dyke 'Froze' at Controls of Section Car
  
  Case Van Dyke, section foreman for the C. M. St. Paul and Pacific railroad at Rock Valley, was killed Monday when the motor car he was riding was hit by a special train on a curve three miles west of Rock Valley. Gerrit Kersbergen, who was riding with him, jumped when he saw the train coming and escaped injury. The engine hit Van Dyke's hand car head on. He had both arms and both legs broken besides cuts and bruises and internal injuries. The train crew picked him up and brought him back to Rock Valley where he was rushed to the Hull hospital. He died there at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
  
  Van Dyke had taken his men to work that morning and then had taken Kersbergen with him to inspect the track on up to Inwood. While in Inwood the station agent told him to wait and leave the special to go through but Van Dyke said that he had time to beat the train back to where he had his men working.
  
  The train consisted of the big engine, coal car and one other and they were speeding a little faster than Van Dyke thought possible. Kersbergen said that as they rounded the curve he saw the engine bearing down towards them and that he jumped off and down the grade. He expected Van Dyke to jump but for some unaccountable reason he failed to do so.
  
  Van Dyke is survived by his wife and nine children, the oldest about twenty years of age. The baby is only three weeks old but Mrs. Van Dyke was able to go to the hospital to be with her husband who was conscious for several hours before he died.
  
  Gerrit Kersbergen, who escaped from the railway motor car uninjured, told The Democrat Tuesday that it all happened so quickly there was little time to think. He said, however, that there was plenty of time to jump and that he waited some seconds for Van Dyke to move before jumping himself. Kersbergen waited so long, in fact, that the engine crew was uncertain as to whether or not he had escaped the drive wheels of the locomotive until they saw him get to his feet after the train had passed.
  
  The section boss, who had been in two similar accidents before, apparently "froze" at the controls of the motor car when the engine appeared around the curve some 600 feet away and did not move from his seat until the crash. H was crushed by the impact and lay on the cow catcher of the locomotive when the train was brought to a halt. His ribs, arms and legs were broken. The man was placed on the train which backed up to Rock Valley and from there he was taken to the Hull hospital by ambulance. He died at 2 P.M., about five hours after the accident.
  
  At the time of the crash the section car was moving east at good speed after the men had completed a run to the west end of the section. The car had entered a cut where the rails curve northward to Inwood at a point about three and one-half miles west of Rock Valley. Engineer Wagner of Sanborn was at the throttle of the engine with Fireman Chas. Jacobs also in the cab. Wagner had just taken his hand off the whistle cord when he saw the section car and reached fast for the emergency brake lever.
  
  Kersbergen says he saw the steam from the whistle just as the engine rounded the bend on a down hill grade. He called to Van Dyke, "There she comes," and got ready to jump. Van Dyke sat as though hypnotized. Kersbergen jumped to the south bank of the cut and rolled down into the ditch close to the ties. Aside from a slight stiffness in one knee he showed no ill effects Tuesday.
  
  Van Dyke was known as a conscientious section boss who never shirked his work. His assistant, Gerrit Kersbergen, believes that he was anxious to complete the inspection run and get at other work in the yards at Rock Valley, He had been warned in advance about the "caboose hop" to be made by the special from Sanborn, the engine, coal car and caboose being dispatched to Canton to ppick up a train there. It was foolhardy of Van Dyke to enter the cut eastbound under the circumstances, Kersbergen says, since there was no chance to get the car off the track if the train should appear before they got through the cut.
  
  Funeral services for the deceased man who was about fifty years of age were held at the home at 1:30 and at the First Reformed church at 2:00 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, in charge of Rev. H. J. Aberson, pastor.
  
  Source: Alton Democrat, August 5, 1938.

• Hij is begraven augustus 1938 in Valley View Cemetery, Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten.
• Een kind van Jan van Dijk en Evertjen Steinvoort
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 2 juni 2014.

Gezin van Cornelis (Case) van Dijk (Van Dyke)

Hij is getrouwd met Aaltje (Alice) Evink.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 23 mei 1918 te Oldebroek, hij was toen 22 jaar oud.

Huwelijk Aaltje Evink en Cornelis van Dijk, 23-05-1918
Aktenummer: 25
Huwelijksdatum: 23-05-1918
Huwelijksplaats: Oldebroek
Bruid: Aaltje Evink
Leeftijd: 21
Doopplaats: Oldebroek
Beroep: landbouwster
Bruidegom: Cornelis van Dijk
Leeftijd: 20
Doopplaats: Zalk en Veecaten (Kampen)
Beroep: boerenknecht
Moeder bruid: Engeltje van 't Hul
Beroep: landbouwster
Vader bruid: Teunis Evink
Beroep: landbouwer
Moeder bruidegom: Evertjen Steinvoort
Beroep: landbouwster
Vader bruidegom: Jan van Dijk
Beroep: landbouwer
Toegangsnummer: 0207 Burgerlijke stand Gelderland
Inventarisnummer: 9119

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