Hij is getrouwd met Mina 'Minnie' Hidden.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 24 maart 1870 te Ridott Township, Stephenson County, Illinois, hij was toen 23 jaar oud.
Kind(eren):
Berend came to America with his sister and mother at the age of 12 in 1859 after his father had died.
Berend Geerdes -- came from Germany with his mother and a sister. His father had lost his life in military service in Germany. The sister later became Mrs. Chris De Groot, Sr. Berend Geerdes and Minnie Hidden were married in Illinois. 1886 they came to the George area to farm southeast of George on the farm seven and a half miles from George here Leonard Nieuwendorp now lives. In 1891 they moved to the farm nearer George where Inez Gronewold now lives. children in the family were Chris (married Tillie Roben); George (married twice, Grace Eilders and Emma Heikens); Remt (married Mary Willemssen); Herman (married Tena Uhe); Hanna (Mrs. Ben Blau); and Bertha (Mrs. Eildert Eilders). Two sons and two daughters of this family died as young men and women of tuberculosis.
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