Hij is getrouwd met Trientje J. Klaassen.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 9 oktober 1869 te Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.
Kind(eren):
Henry Janssen Meester was born in Manslagt, Ostfriesland, Germany on January 22, 1844. He was one of six children born to Johannes Gerhardi and Swantje (Rosenboom) Meester. He was a twin brother to Harm Janssen Meester. Henry came to America (1865) with his family and lived in Freeport, IL for four years. On October 9, 1869, he marrried Trientje J. Klaassen, a daughter of Jakob Thomsen Klaassen (born June 22, 1800, died January 23, 1893) and Ann Katharina (Menenga) Klaassen (bornJuly 5, 1805, died October 28, 1881; buried at Pleasant Valley Reformed Church Cemetery, Holland, Iowa). Shortly after their marriage, they moved to Iowa by covered wagon. They drove here with a team like realpioneers. They settled on an 80 acre farm in north Colfax township, section 4, for which they paid $7 an acre. They later bought several additional pieces of Grundy county land and distributed this land amongtheir children after they all arrived at their majority. The Harlyn Meester family is now NN here. Mr. and Mrs. Meester were the parents of five boys and five girls.
Emigrated Bremen to New York City on sailing ship Neptun, arrived August 19, 1863
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