"Without the least forewarning J.A. Veldboom, Sioux City, dropped dead in the Murdo hotel porch last night about 11:25 o'clock. Mr. Veldboom drove to Murdo yesterday afternoon with O.B. Griflin, of Kadoka, and was stopping at the Murdo hotel last night. The gentleman came to Murdo in the interest of the Long & Hanson live stock commission firm of Sioux City, Iowa, with which firm the deceased was a soliciting agent, and he was planning to work in this vicinity this week.
Mr. Veldboom registered at the Murdo hotel and late in the evening with a number of other gentlemen was out on the front porch talking over miscellaneous subjects, as business men will after their day's work is completed. Due to the heat of the day and evening the men had not retired early in the evening but were waiting for it to cool off before going to bed.
During the conversation, in which Mr. Veldboom was explaining in detail matters pertaining to the Presho stock yards quarantine, he was noticed to slide down in his chair as if taken suddenly ill. The gentlemen who were with him at the time, including Landlord A.F. Ziekriek and Mr. Griffith, rushed to him ordering and applying water to the man's face and forehead in attempt to relieve what they firstsupposed to be a fainting spell. It was all over in a few seconds. Mr. Veldboom gasped once but never said a word at any time. In a few moments time the gentlemen realized that death had taken their companion and it was all so sudden that it was hard to realize the truth.
Dr. W. M. Hunt was called immediately and he was there within ten minutes but of course all medical aid was out of the question by that time."
"A coronor's inquest was held this morning at nine o'clock. The verdict brought out read as follows: "In inquisition held at Murdo in the said county and state on the 17th. day of August, 1922, before M.E. Sorenson, coroner of said county, upon the body of J. A. Veldboom, there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribed, the said jurors upon their oath do say that the deceased came to his death from appoplexy or natural causes."
Mr. Veldboom was born at Alto, Wisconsin, July 21, 1870, and was fifty-two years and twenty-five days old.
When he was thirteen years of age, in 1883, his parents moved to Sioux County and lived on a farm south of Orange City. He lived there with his parents until he became of age and then he came to Rock Valley where he lived until some twelve years ago when he moved to Wessington Springs, S.D., and later to White Lake, S. D. Then he moved to Michigan where he spent about two years and then moved with his family to Sioux City seven years ago.
Mr. Veldboom was united in marriage to Miss Gertie Ernisse of Hull, Iowa, Feb. 28, 1893, who with one son, Richard, survives him.
Besides his wife and son, he leaves his aged mother, Mrs. Dora Veldboom, of Maurice, Iowa, and two brothers, Gerrit, of Rock Valley, and Henry, of Orange City, and three sisters, Jennie Veldboom who is with her mother at Maurice, Mrs. Koenders, of Castlewood, S. D., and Mrs. A.B. Cook, of Miller, S.D.
The bereaved family and other relatives have the sympathy of many friends in their great sorrow.
Rock Valley Bee 1922-08-25
John Albert Veldboom
GEBOORTE21 Jul 1870
Alto, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, USA
OVERLIJDEN16 Aug 1922 (leeftijd 52) Murdo, Jones County, South Dakota, USA
BEGRAAFLOCATIEValley View Cemetery Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa, VS
GEDENKPLEK-ID10677863
Hij is getrouwd met Gertie Eernisse.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 28 februari 1893, hij was toen 22 jaar oud.Bron 1
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