| 1. | v | Geertje VERMEER, geboren op 17-08-1844 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 106), overleden op 18-08-1844 te Barneveld, 1 dag oud (aktenummer: 89).
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| 2. | m | Harmen VERMEER, geboren op 08-08-1845 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 192), landbouwer, overleden op 21-06-1945 te Amerongen op 99-jarige leeftijd, begraven te Veenendaal, op de begraafplaats "Munnikenhof".
Gehuwd op 36-jarige leeftijd op 24-11-1881 te Renswoude (aktenummer: 12) met Hendrika BOERS, 22 jaar oud, geboren op 07-11-1859 te Leersum, overleden op 24-12-1950 te Leersum op 91-jarige leeftijd, begraven te Veenendaal, op de begraafplaats "Munnikenhof", dochter van Jan BOERS en Jannigje DIJKLAND.
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| 3. | m | Evert VERMEER, geboren op 28-12-1847 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 139), koetsier, landbouwer, vrijgestelde van de Nationale Militie omdat een broer reeds dient.
Gehuwd op 37-jarige leeftijd op 29-01-1885 te Doorn (aktenummer: 2) met Philippina Johanna JANSEN, 25 jaar oud, geboren op 02-04-1859 te Doorn (aktenummer: 20), overleden op 14-02-1926 te Ede op 66-jarige leeftijd, dochter van Filip JANSEN en Maria van VULPEN.
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| 4. | m | Gerrit VERMEER, geboren op 13-10-1850 te Garderen, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 160), landbouwer.
Gehuwd op 30-jarige leeftijd op 26-02-1881 te Scherpenzeel (aktenummer: 2) met Hermina van de PEUT, 23 jaar oud, geboren op 13-12-1857 te Scherpenzeel, dochter van Aart van de PEUT en Klaasje van ESSEN.
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| 5. | m | Aalt VERMEER, geboren op 06-04-1853 te Garderen, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 38).
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| 6. | v | Annetje VERMEER, geboren op 31-07-1855 te Garderen, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 94), overleden op 13-12-1856 te Garderen, gem. Barneveld op 1-jarige leeftijd (aktenummer: 109).
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| 7. | m | Aalbert VERMEER, geboren op 24-11-1857 te Kootwijk, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 178), knecht, gemeente-wegwerker, overleden op 04-03-1947 te Ede op 89-jarige leeftijd, laatstelijk wonend te Lunteren aan de Edescheweg 36 voordien de Veenen 112 geheten.
Gehuwd op 26-jarige leeftijd op 04-10-1884 te Ede (aktenummer: 50) met Marrigje van GROOTVELD, 21 jaar oud, geboren op 28-04-1863 te Leusden, overleden op 16-01-1937 te Ede op 73-jarige leeftijd, dochter van Cornelis van GROOTVELD en Willemijntje APELDOORN.
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| 8. | v | Annetje VERMEER, geboren op 27-05-1861 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 63).
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| 9. | m | Dirk VERMEER, geboren op 10-05-1864 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 65), molenaar, emigrant.
Arriveerde op 13 maart 1895, 30 jaar, op Ellis Island, New York. Mogelijk nadien nog in Nederland geweest. Is pas op 10 maart 1905 ambtshalve uit de bevolkingsregisters van Barneveld geschreven.
Gehuwd op 35‑jarige leeftijd op
21-09-1899 te
Pella, Marion, Iowa (USA)
met Lamberta Johanna
van der LINDEN, 22 jaar oud, geboren op
05-04-1877 te
Geldermalsen,
overleden op 05-07-1960
te Quarton, Oskaloosa,
Iowa (USA) op 83‑jarige leeftijd in het
Quarton Nursing Home.
Kinderen:
a. m
Jan
(John D.)
VERMEER,
geboren op 22‑02‑1900
te Pella, Marion, Iowa
(USA), overleden op
12‑03‑1928 te Pella, Marion, Iowa (USA) op 28‑jarige leeftijd.
Gehuwd februari 1925 te
Pella, Marion, Iowa (USA)
met Marie Ann
van ZEE, geboren op
04‑11‑1901 te Pella,
Marion, Iowa (USA), overleden op
18‑02‑1975 te
Thomaston, Upson, Georgia
(USA) op 73‑jarige leeftijd.
b. v Martiena
VERMEER, geboren
1902 te Pella,
Marion, Iowa (USA).
c. v Aaltje
VERMEER, geboren
1903 te Pella,
Marion, Iowa (USA).
d. m
Lambertus
(Lambert)
VERMEER,
geboren op 05‑12‑1904
te Pella, Marion, Iowa
(USA), overleden
februari 1986 te
Pella, Marion, Iowa (USA).
Gehuwd met Pieternella
(Nellie) .....,
geboren op 30‑08‑1907,
overleden op 19‑05‑1988
te Pella, Marion, Iowa
(USA) op 80‑jarige leeftijd.
e. m
Anthony D.
VERMEER,
geboren op 21‑05‑1909
te Pella, Marion, Iowa
(USA), overleden op
22‑10‑1990 te Pella,
Marion, Iowa (USA) op 81‑jarige leeftijd.
Gehuwd te Pella, Marion,
Iowa (USA) met
Dina
KLOOSTERMAN,
geboren op 05‑07‑1908
te Pella, Marion, Iowa
(USA), overleden op
02‑07‑1960 te
Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa (USA) op
51‑jarige leeftijd, dochter van
Gommert
KLOOSTERMAN
en Grada
van DORP.
6. m
Dirk Jan
(Dent J, Dick)
VERMEER,
geboren op 18‑10‑1913
te Pella, Marion, Iowa
(USA), overleden op
07‑08‑1996 te Pella,
Marion, Iowa (USA) op 82‑jarige leeftijd.
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| 10. | v | Hendrikje VERMEER, geboren op 07-09-1869 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 144), overleden op 05-12-1869 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld, 89 dagen oud (aktenummer: 105).
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| 11. | v | Hendrikje VERMEER, geboren op 10-10-1870 te Barneveld (aktenummer: 151), overleden op 15-04-1947 te Uddel, gem. Apeldoorn op 76-jarige leeftijd, laatstelijk wonend aan de Garderenscheweg 108 aldaar, begraven te Elspeet, op de Algemene begraafplaats aan de Uddelerweg 72, hoek Kleine Kolonieweg, in graf nr II-155.
Gehuwd op 19-jarige leeftijd op 25-01-1890 te Apeldoorn met Jan VOS, 22 jaar oud, geboren op 14-09-1867 te Apeldoorn, dagloner, vrijgesteld voor de Nationale Militie 'uit hoofde van te zijn eenige wettige zoon', overleden op 19-04-1954 te Uddel op 86-jarige leeftijd, zoon van Peter VOS, arbeider, en Gerritje KARS.
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| 12. | m | Peter VERMEER, geboren op 24-12-1871 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 166), landbouwer, bakker, overleden op 28-06-1947 te Uddel op 75-jarige leeftijd, begraven te Elspeet, op de Algemene begraafplaats, in graf nr II-157.
Gehuwd op 22-jarige leeftijd op 24-02-1894 te Apeldoorn (aktenummer: 29) met Dirkje BRONKHORST, 20 jaar oud, geboren op 06-01-1874 te Apeldoorn (aktenummer: 11), overleden op 18-02-1957 te Apeldoorn op 83-jarige leeftijd, dochter van Samuel BRONKHORST, dagloner, arbeider, winkelier, en Berendina Maria SCHUT.
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| 13. | m | Hendrik VERMEER, geboren op 17-09-1873 te Barneveld (aktenummer: 122), landbouwer, los arbeider, overleden op 30-06-1963 te Apeldoorn op 89-jarige leeftijd.
Gehuwd (1) op 22-jarige leeftijd op 22-08-1896 te Apeldoorn (aktenummer: 129) met Heintje KOK, 29 jaar oud, geboren op 31-05-1867 te Apeldoorn, overleden voor 1904, dochter van Jacob KOK, arbeider/landbouwer, winkelier, en Reintje KERS.
Gehuwd (2) op 30-jarige leeftijd op 06-08-1904 te Apeldoorn (aktenummer: 148) met Gerritje KARSTEN, 41 jaar oud, geboren op 10-02-1863 te Apeldoorn, overleden op 17-08-1947 te Apeldoorn op 84-jarige leeftijd, dochter van Harmen KARSTEN en Jantje LENTINK.
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| 14. | m | Evert Jan VERMEER, geboren op 20-06-1875 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 82).
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| 15. | v | Elisabeth VERMEER, geboren op 03-12-1876 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 177), overleden op 02-06-1878 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld op 1-jarige leeftijd (aktenummer: 51).
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| 16. | v | Elisabeth VERMEER, geboren op 15-12-1878 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 173), overleden op 02-07-1960 te Uddel op 81-jarige leeftijd, begraven te Elspeet, op de Algemene begraafplaats, in graf nr II-131.
Gehuwd op 21-jarige leeftijd op 13-01-1900 te Apeldoorn met Jan KOK, 29 jaar oud, geboren op 12-03-1870 te Apeldoorn (aktenummer: 97), dagloner, overleden op 07-07-1944 te Apeldoorn op 74-jarige leeftijd, laatstelijk wonend aan de Markveldweg 28 aldaar, zoon van Jacob KOK, arbeider/landbouwer, winkelier, en Reintje KERS.
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| 17. | v | Annetje VERMEER, geboren op 27-06-1880 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 83), overleden op 28-06-1880 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld, 1 dag oud (aktenummer: 80).
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| 18. | m | Jan VERMEER, geboren op 01-12-1881 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld (aktenummer: 106), overleden op 01-12-1881 te Stroe, gem. Barneveld.
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| 1. | v | Aaltje (Ella, Allie) VERMEER, geboren op 12-03-1878 te Alton, Sioux, Iowa (USA), overleden op 03-05-1956 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 78-jarige leeftijd, begraven te Memory Gardens, Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA).
Ondertrouwd op 22-04-1899, gehuwd op 21-jarige leeftijd op 26-04-1899 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) (getuige(n): Sanderus Schut, Evert Vermeer [vaders]) (aktenummer: 72) met Peter Sander (Sam) SCHUT, 22 jaar oud, geboren op 22-05-1876 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA), overleden op 28-06-1958 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 82-jarige leeftijd, begraven te Sioux Center, Memory Gardens, zoon van Sanderus (Sander) SCHUT en Fennetje ten HOUTEN.
Gezin Schut-Vermeer
Peter Schut, son of Sander and Fennetje (Ten Houten) Schut, was born May 22, 1876. He was born two and one-fourth miles east of Sioux Center.
It was here he grew up with older brothers Gerrit Jan, Dirk, and younger brothers, Teunis, Sander, and Frank. He also had two sisters, Hendrika (Mrs. Adam Punt) and Johanna (Mrs. Peter Westra).
The only formal education Peter had was obtained in the country school. He began work on the farm at an early age.
When Peter was one year old, the First Reformed Church of Sioux Center was orga-nized. It was at church that he later met Aaltje (Ella) Vermeer the oldest daughter of Evert and Hendrijke Sneller Vermeer. Ella was born March 12, 1878.
Peter and Ella Schut were married at the home of the bride in 1899. Their honeymoon consisted of a ride with the wagon and horses to the farm where Peter was born. They farmed the land homesteaded by his father Sander. Sander Schut retired to live in Sioux Center.
Peter and Ella Schut were the parents of two sons, Sander "Sam" and Evert "Ed" plus two daughters Fennitje "Fannie" and Hattie Edna "Edna."
Due to the illness of Ella's father, Evert Vermeer, they moved to Sioux Center to care for the elderly parents in October of 1927.
The farm became the home of Ed Schut and his wife Myna (Schuiteman) Schut. He was the third generation on the farm homesteaded by Sander Schut. Peter still spent much tune on the farm, while Ella, with her daughter Fannie's help, lovingly cared for her parents. Daughter Edna was in school.
Peter Schut was active in both church and civic affairs. He was a long time Farm Bureau member. He served as deacon, treasurer of the church, elder, Sunday School and catechism teacher at First Reformed Church at Sioux Center. He was influential in organizing the creamery where farmers sold cream for manufacturing butter, He served as its first president. There were numerous boards of the various cooperatives on which he served, Peter was a member of the city council in the 1930's.
He will always be remembered as a devoted husband, father, and grandfather
One of his greatest virtues was his patience and kindness [by Fannie
and Edna Schut].
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| 2. | m | Rijk (Richard E.) VERMEER, geboren op 25-07-1879 te Alton, Sioux, Iowa (USA), ging naar Zondagschool, landbouwer, op zijn boederij werden door de Civic Club en de Kamer van Koophandel 'corn picking contests' gehouden, overleden op 25-02-1952 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 72-jarige leeftijd, begraven op 28-02-1952 te Memory Gardens, Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA).
Gehuwd op 28-jarige leeftijd op 09-09-1907 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) met Katherine (Kate) ROOS, 24 jaar oud, geboren op 23-07-1883 te Orange City, Sioux, Iowa (USA), overleden op 30-04-1956 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 72-jarige leeftijd, begraven op 02-05-1956 te Sioux Center, Memory Gardens, dragers/pallbearers: Andrew Beernink, Howard Beernink, Wilbur T. Vermeer, Bernard Vermeer, Irwin Vermeer, Bernard Ver Hoef. Dochter van Andries (Andrew) ROOS en Aaltje (Alice) SCHAAP.
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| 3. | m | Jacob (Jake) E. VERMEER, geboren op 03-02-1881 te Alton, Sioux, Iowa (USA), landbouwer, lid van de kerkeraad van de First Reformed Church, dekaan, leraar op de Zondagschool, overleden op 27-03-1966 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 85-jarige leeftijd, 's avonds in het Community Hospital, begraven op 30-03-1966 te Sioux Center, Memory Gardens, pallbearers/dragers: Ed Vermeer, Wilbur Vermeer, Arnold Vermeer, Marvin Vermeer, Harvey Vermeer en John R. Vander Schaaf.
Gehuwd op 25-jarige leeftijd op 12-07-1906 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA), in een boederij ten noorden van het centrum met Heintje (Henrietta) NIJMAN, 23 jaar oud, geboren op 15-12-1882 te Dinxperlo, kwam in oktober 1893 met haar ouders, een broer en zeven zussen naar Amerika, overleden op 08-03-1962 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 79-jarige leeftijd, 's-avonds in Community Hospital, begraven op 12-03-1962 te Memory Gardens, Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA), pallbearers/dragers: Ed Vermeer, Wilbur Vermeer, John R. Vander Schaaf, Arnold Vermeer, Marvin Vermeer & Harvey Vermeer.
Henriëtta emigreerde in oktober 1893. Nijman in de VS: Nyman. Dochter van Engelbart Gerrit NIJMAN en Johanna Willemina ROUGOOR.
Het echtpaar Vermeer-Nijman betrok na het huwelijk een boerderij een mijl ten zuiden van One Million Dollar Corner in Sioux Center. In dezelfde boederij woont in 1962 hun zoon Wilbert Vermeer en zijn gezin. Jacob en Harriet verhuisden in 1943 naar Sioux Center naar een huis dichtbij de Christian School. In 1961 werd hun 55-jarig huwelijk met een groot open-huis in de First Reformed Church gevierd, alle kinderen en kleinkinderen waren daarbij aanwezig.
Jacob E. Vermeer was born in Sioux County on a farm near Alton. His family moved to a farm near Sioux Center about 1886. He received his formal education in a one room rural school.
On July 12, 1906 he was married Henrietta Nyman, the seventh child of nine children born to Engelbart Gerrit and Johanna Willemina (Rougaar) Nyman. She was born Dec. 15, 1882 at Dinxperlo (Varseveld), Gelderland in the Netherlands. She immigrated to America with her family and arrived in October 1893. Because they had no permanent home as yet, she was boarded out to strangers (to her) until her father bought a farm five miles north of Sioux Center, Iowa. She experienced severe homesickness during those first weeks, but went to school with the host parent's children and soon made friends.
Jacob E. Vermeer was a farmer and homesteaded a farm one mile south of Sioux Center, Iowa. The new farm house consisted of a kitchen, bedroom, living-dining room and porch. There were also two bedrooms upstairs. Later a basement with a furnace was added and also a front parlor. They lived in this home until their retirement in 1943 when they moved into a home that they had purchased in Sioux Center, Iowa.
Both Jacob E. and Henrietta (Nyman) Vermeer were members of the First Reformed Church of Sioux Center, Iowa, where they received Sunday School and Catechism instruction and where he served as a deacon and Sunday School teacher for many years. He also served on the Sioux Center Creamery Board during the 1920's. She was active in the missionary society for many years, was a faithful wife and mother and enjoyed rug braiding and crocheting.
During their early married years there was no electricity or other modern conveniences. They milked by hand, raised their own cattle, hogs and chickens and did their own butchering, gardening and canning. They purchased their first refrigerator in June, 1941.
While their children were growing up, a "Vermeer Family reunion" at Oak Grove State Park in western Sioux County, near Hawarden, Iowa, was a big event on a warm summer day after a big rain which halted the farm work for a day or two. This group included all of Jacob E.'s brothers, sisters, their spouses and their children. Married men were challenged by the single's to many softball games, and wading in the Sioux River was a big event of the day. The picnic food was always so good! The Vermeer family experienced and survived the great depression of the 1930's as they put their trust in the Lord from day to day. There were many "hungry tramps" who came to the back door, asking for a meal. They were never turned away, but given sandwiches made from thick slices of bread with meat or homemade jams and sometimes fried eggs. This was served on the back steps, with cups of hot coffee and glasses of milk. The Vermeer children often wondered whether the farm place was targeted so that the tramps who followed the railroad tracks that ran about one-half mile west of the farm could direct one another to that back door. The family watch dog was always nearby keeping an eye on these men.
Threshing time each year was another highlight, but hard work for the men, lots of baking and cooking on woodburning stoves for the women, and fun for the children. After the harvest, an evening was set for the men to settle the fimancial obligations at an "Ice cream party."
by Harvey J. Vermeer.
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| 4. | m | Gerrit E. VERMEER, geboren op 19-11-1882 te Alton, Sioux, Iowa (USA), dr., ging naar Zondagschool, overleden op 03-12-1957 te Sheldon, O'Brien, Iowa (USA) op 75-jarige leeftijd, begraven op 05-12-1957 te Sheldon, East Lawn
Cemetery.
Gehuwd op 30-jarige leeftijd op 20-05-1913 te Sibley, Iowa (USA) met Vashti CRAM, 26 jaar oud, geboren op 28-03-1887 te Sibley, Iowa (USA), lerares, lid P.E.O. Overleden op 12-01-1990 te Sheldon, O'Brien, Iowa (USA) op 102-jarige leeftijd. Northwest Iowa Health Center, begraven op 15-01-1990 te Sheldon, East Lawn
Cemetery, dochter van Frank CRAM en Maggie GARD.
Het gezin Vermeer-Cram woonde tot 1917 in Rock Valley, Sioux County, daarna in Sheldon, O'Brien County.
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| 5. | m | Pieter (Peter) E. VERMEER, geboren op 24-03-1884 te Alton, Sioux, Iowa (USA), overleden op 24-05-1967 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 83-jarige leeftijd, begraven te Memory Gardens, Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA).
Ondertrouwd op 15-03-1910, gehuwd op 25-jarige leeftijd op 16-03-1910 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) (getuige(n): Evert Vermeer, Menno Borgman [vaders]) (aktenummer: 114) met Reina (Rena) BORGMAN, 24 jaar oud, geboren op 14-02-1886 te Alton, Sioux, Iowa (USA), gedoopt (nh) op 02-05-1886 te Sioux Center, oudste uit een gezin van 14 kinderen: heeft 12 zusters en 1 broer, overleden op 14-04-1956 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 70-jarige leeftijd, begraven op 17-04-1956 te Sioux Center, Memory Gardens, dragers/pallbearers: Andrew, Ed J., Irwin & Lloyd Vermeer, Marvin de Boer, Edwin ten Napel, dochter van Menne (Menno, Jim) BORGMAN en Berendina (Dena) WESSELINK.
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| 6. | m | Evert VERMEER, geboren op 27-05-1886 te Alton, Sioux, Iowa (USA), gedoopt (nh) op 11-07-1886 te Sioux Center, overleden op 24-05-1887 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA), 362 dagen oud, his physician was A.P. Owens, cause of death: measles - lung fever for 8 days, begraven te Sioux Center, in West Branch Township.
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| 7. | v | Matje (Maggie) VERMEER, geboren op 30-12-1887 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA), gedoopt (nh) op 01-04-1889 te Sioux Center, overleden op 31-05-1971 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 83-jarige leeftijd, begraven op 03-06-1971 te Sioux Center Community
Cemetery, Iowa (USA).
Ondertrouwd op 29-04-1912, gehuwd op 24-jarige leeftijd op 04-05-1912 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) (getuige(n): J. de Boer, Evert Vermeer) (aktenummer: 104) met Hendrik (Henry T., Hen) de BOER, 24 jaar oud, geboren op 14-09-1887 te Het Bildt, Friesland (aktenummer: 187), landbouwer, overleden op 11-08-1960 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 72-jarige leeftijd, begraven op 15-08-1960 te Sioux Center Community
Cemetery, Iowa (USA), zoon van Tjeerd de BOER en Froukje (Florence, Fennie) van de WEG.
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| 8. | v | Jannetje (Jennie) VERMEER, geboren op 14-12-1889 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA), lid First Reformed Church, in 1920 (met zus Driesje) mede-oprichtster van Junior Women's Missionary Society, later Missionary Guild genoemd, overleden op 10-04-1982 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 92-jarige leeftijd, begraven te Memory Gardens, Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA).
Gehuwd op 25-jarige leeftijd op 17-12-1914 met Asa MUILENBURG, 28 jaar oud, geboren op 02-05-1886 te South Dakota (USA), landbouwer, overleden op 23-10-1964 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 78-jarige leeftijd, begraven te Memory Gardens, Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA), zoon van Jacob MUILENBURG en Aaltje (Ellen, Alice) van der MEER.
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| 9. | v | Driesje (Grace) VERMEER, geboren op 21-08-1891 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA), gedoopt (nh) op 04-10-1891 te Sioux Center, lid First Reformed Church, in 1920 (met zus Jannetje) mede-oprichtster van Junior Women's Missionary Society, later Missionary Guild genoemd, overleden op 14-09-1978 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 87-jarige leeftijd.
Gehuwd op 25-jarige leeftijd op 07-03-1917 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) met Hendrik Jan (Henry John) RAMAKER, 22 jaar oud, geboren op 02-08-1894 te Prairie View, Kansas (USA), overleden op 11-09-1976 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 82-jarige leeftijd, zoon van Steven RAMAKER en Lena DEKKER.
Henry J. Ramaker (Hendrik Jan, according to the family Bible) was born near Prairie View, Kansas on August 2, 1894, the son of Steven and Lena (Dekker) Ramaker. Steven was born on September 12, 1860, in Oude Piccardie, Grafschaft Bentheim, Germany, just a few miles from the Dutch border. He emigrated to the United States on August 15, 1882. Lena was born in the Province of Overijssel, the Netherlands on April 10, 1870, and emigrated with her family on April 16, 1882. Both settled in the north-central Kansas farming community where they first met, were married at Luctor on March 29, 1888, and began raising their family in a sod house on the prairie.
Reports of the better farming conditions enjoyed by the Dutch community in Northwest Iowa led the Ramaker family to pick up their worldly goods and move to Sioux Center in March, 1910. They came, husband and wife, eight children, their household goods, their cattle, and Ernest Ruys, a suitor to the eldest daughter, Fannie, who insinuated himself into the party by offering to be herdsman to the cattle on the train that brought them.
The elder Ramakers were apparently staunch believers in higher education, but only for approved purposes, the ministry being the first of those, with anything else being a poor second. By the time they came to Sioux Center, eldest son, John, was already on his way through college and seminary and when the younger half of the family began showing similar inclinations, Steven and Lena moved to Grundy Center, Iowa, so as to be near a desirable school that was located there at the time. But when second son, Henry, wanted financing to take him through an auctioneering school, the parents balked, considering that such a worthy and frivolous pursuit was not worthy of their support. Herdsman Ernest Ruys into the breach! By this time he had become a brother-in-law and it was he who loaned the young farm hand enough money to take him to Chicago and through the Jones National School of Auctioneering, from which he emerged with a diploma on January 9, 1914. (Steven and Lena remained in Grundy Center until 1933, when they returned to Sioux Center, and where both died.)
Following his auctioneering training, Henri returned to his parents' farm and worked with them while also trying to establish his new business. He found time, in addition, to be part of a singing class at the First Christian Reformed Church but his courting activities were not directed toward the attractive young women in that group. Instead it was one whom he met at a party at the Menno Borgman home who struck his fancy. This was Grace (baptized Driesje) Vermeer who was born into the Evert Vermeer family on their fann in the Northeast Quarter of Section 16 in West Branch Township on August 21, 1891. Things progressed at the party sufficiently for Grace to permit herself to be escorted home by Henry, but her younger sister, Priscilla, was there too, so she too sat in the buggy on the way home. Nevertheless, it was the beginning of a courtship that culminated in their marriage at the Vermeer home on March 7, 1917.
Henry and Grace moved onto a farm three miles east of the "old Sioux Center" corner (E½ of SE¼ Sec. 2 and S½ of SW¼ and SW½ of SE¼ of Sec. 1, West Branch Twp.), and named it the Eastview Stock Farm. Here they carried on a full-fledged crop and livestock operation, usually with the help of a live-in hired hand whose life as often made miserable by the teasing and pestering administered by the three daughters who were born between 1918 and 1924.
The auction business grew rapidly. Henry proved to be aggressive in the pursuit of opportunities while Grace kept the detail work under control. In 1919 they formed a de facto partnership with Herman De Vries who had come from the same auctioneering school in that year. They proved to be a formidable team in the ring and developed a strong personal friendship as well as a thriving business. During 15 years of association the two cried more than 2,000 sales in the tri-state area where Iowa, South Dakota, and Minnesota join. During the depths of the Great Depression, they at times were forced to schedule more than one sale during a day, each one crying a sale single-handedly. It was on one such occasion that Herman De Vries, returning from the auction that he had conducted, was killed in an automobile accident just east of the Million Dollar corner. It was a sad end to a great friendship and a tine business partnership. The date was February 22, 1934.
During the Ramaker tenure on the Eastview Stock Farm, the Sioux County Farm Bureau was organized and they became charter members as well as active participants in the numerous progressive programs that characterized the organization's early years. Grace became a militant campaigner for the betterment of the living conditions of farm families, not only in matters of housing, but also in those affecting the access of farm families to the cultural and educational activities of the town community.
Throughout this period they remained true to the de riguer community commitment to church and family, especially the Vermeer family whose very numbers exerted a strong gravitational pull. They taught Sunday school classes, joined missionary groups and were MI-fledged participants in the round of family gatherings that formed the bulk of social activity formuch of the farming community. Memorial Day and the Fourth of July were the big days for the Vermeer tribal conclaves. Well before noon they would begin to gather at one of the farmsteads, the ladies sorting out the contributions for the various food functions of the day and the men seating themselves in a circle to warm up the theology, philosophy, and gossip menu. Promptly at noon the elder of the day called for silence and pronounced the blessing, whereupon all proceeded to the feast; the children leading in order to pick and sniff and generally mess up the offerings, the men following to eat the bulk of it, and the women tralling to take what was left and then to restore order and reorganize for the next round.
After the food settled, fun and games commenced. Singles-versus-marrieds ball games were centerring while the younger ones pin-wheeled about in their free lance play and the ladies sat in groups, chatting or wiping noses-/tears. On the Fourth there were firecrackers and crackerjack provided by one or more of the uncles.
Then about 3:30, it was "lunch": sandwiches, leftovers from noon, and cold drinks. The younger children would then continue to play but the men had chores to do at home. Early in the evening, all reassembled for the final session of coffee, cake, ice cream, display fireworks on the Fourth, and final clean up. Finally conversation faded away as the young families sorted themselves out and headed for their homes.
It was into this environment of large extended family, church, Farm Bureau
and 4-H, and a busy auction schedule that the Ramakers' three daughters were
born.
Following the death of Herman De Vries, Henry continued his business on an independent basis, though often teaming up with other independent operators. It was also during the thirties that he became active in real estate brokerage. It was a period of severe stress in the farm economy and many of the auction sales that he managed had a funereal aspect to them in that they signaled the failed end of a family farming operation. In other cases, the sale was only a part of a general restructuring of the farm operation and it was through these that the attendant land sales, trades, financings, and refinancings brought about a surge in his real estate brokerage business and earned him a reputation for helping numerous farmers reduce unmanageable debt loads and salvage enough assets to survive the Depression and regain their standing as successful farmers.
The demands of the auction and real estate businesses, the death of the partner, advent of tractor farming, and wifely urging led in late 1934 to a move from farm to "town".
The school year had started and shortly after noon Superintendent Sandven noticed a group of his young charges headed south on Main Street. Sensing some impropriety, he set off in his car to investigate. Overtaking what turned out to be Alene, Yette, and a number of their cousins, he inquired as to their destination and purpose. He was promptly put in his place by one of the cousins who informed him, "It's Uncle Henry's sale." Properly chastened, the superintendent loaded the troop into his car and delivered them to their destination. Such was the standing of 'THE SALE" in those days.
There followed shortly the moved to their home on the "old town" corner where Henry and Grace lived long enough to give the corner their name. Henry retired from the auction business in 1945, having compiled a career total of more than 6,000 sales cried and becoming one of the leading auctioneers in the Midwest. He continued his brokerage activity until 1955.
During their semi-retirement and into their full retirement years, the Ramakers devoted increasing attention to community and church affairs. Henry served for 10 years on the International Board of the World Home Bible League and, from 1952 until shortly before his death, as a trustee and member of the executive committee of the Northwestern College Board. In recognition of the longstanding and generous support given the College by the Ramaker family, the new library, dedicated in 1963, bears that name.
They were also leaders in the founding of the Sioux Center Community Hospital and Health Center. When that cherished institution became a reality, Grace was a charter member of its Board of Directors and remained on the board until failing health compelled her to withdraw.
Throughout their later years, the Ramakers traveled extensively, for many years wintering in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where they had also invested in some citrus groves. In addition to trips to Europe and Alaska, they particularly enjoyed taking escorted motorcoach tours to numerous destinations within the lower 48 states; the latter permitting them to continue moving about the country even after their own driving ceased to be advisable.
Henry Ramaker died after a short illness on September 11, 1976; Grace on September 14, 1978. Both died in the Sioux Center Hospital and both were buried in the Sioux Center Cemetery.
by Del Te Paske.
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| 10. | m | Evert (Edward, Ed) E. VERMEER, geboren op 15-09-1893 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA), gedoopt (nh) op 05-11-1893 te Sioux Center, landbouwer op een boerderij anderhalve mijl ten zuidoosten van Sioux Center, lid en vrijwilliger van de First Reformed Church, secretaris Delphic Society, was sociaal bewogen en een echte familyman, overleden op 03-07-1931 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 37-jarige leeftijd, overleden aan complicaties opgetreden bij een acute blinde darmontsteking (gescheurde appendix), nadat hij maar één week ziek was, begraven op 06-07-1931 te Memory Gardens, Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA).
Gehuwd op 23-jarige leeftijd op 16-02-1917 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) met Aleida (Lyda) BORGMAN, 23 jaar oud, geboren op 15-03-1893 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA), gedoopt (nh) op 04-06-1893 te Sioux Center, vijfde uit een gezin van 14 kinderen: heeft 12 zusters en 1 broer, overleden op 22-10-1964 op 71-jarige leeftijd, begraven te Memory Gardens, Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA), dochter van Menne (Menno, Jim) BORGMAN en Berendina (Dena) WESSELINK.
Evert E. (Ed) Vermeer, the youngest son of Evert Vermeer and Hendrikje Sneller of Sioux Center was born on the farm one mile south and three-fourths mile east of Sioux Center. This quarter section was homesteaded by his parents in 1882 for a price of $1768. Ed acquired it in 1924. Ed married Alida Borgman. the daughter of Menne
Horgman and Dena Wesselink. Alida graduated from the Sioux Center High School and taught country school.
In the summer of 1922 Ed developed typhoid fever, which kept him down all summer, from drinking water from a well that hadn't been used for some time. In the summer of 1931, Ed suddenly took sick and it was diagnosed as appendicitis. Surgery showed a ruptured appendix and complications. He passed away July 3 after being sick only one week.
Alida and the family moved to an acreage on the west edge of Sioux Center for nine years. In 1940 she moved back to farm and farmed it with Irwin until 1948 when Irwin married. She then built a house in Sioux Center where she lived until she passed away Oct. 22,1964 at the age of 72 years.
by Mrs. Aldine (Vermeer) van Roekel.
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| 11. | v | Hendrika E. (Hattie) VERMEER, geboren op 14-08-1895 te Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa (USA), gedoopt (nh) op 13-10-1895 te Sioux Center, ging naar de Sioux Center High School en Hope College in Holland, Michigan, beide opleidingen afgerond, zendeling in Kentucky, later in Shebiygan, Wisconsin, was zeer aktief in de Presbyteriaanse kerk, zowel als ouderling als in de vrouwenafdeling, overleden op 19-04-1987 te Elkhorn, Walworth, Wisconsin (USA) op 91-jarige leeftijd, begraven op 22-04-1987 te Grundy Center, Iowa; Rose Hill
Cemetery, section D, lot 81, space 3.
Gehuwd op 28-jarige leeftijd op 24-12-1923 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) met Dr. Henry L. MOL, 26 jaar oud, geboren op 08-01-1897 te Sibley, Osceola, Iowa (USA), arts, overleden op 05-06-1952 te Grundy Center, Grundy, Iowa (USA) op 55-jarige leeftijd, begraven te Grundy Center, Rose Hill
Cemetery, section D, lot 81, space 1. Zoon van Lubbertus (Lammert) MOL en Jane BAKKER.
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| 12. | v | Pietje (Priscella) VERMEER, geboren op 01-02-1898 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA), gedoopt (nh) op 05-06-1898 te Sioux Center, graduate in 1916, overleden op 25-03-1998 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op
100-jarige leeftijd, begraven op 30-03-1998 te Memory Gardens, Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA).
Gehuwd op 25-jarige leeftijd op 29-08-1923 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) met Albert (Bert) RAMAKER, 26 jaar oud, geboren op 29-03-1897 te Prairie View, Kansas (USA), overleden op 11-10-1971 te Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) op 74-jarige leeftijd, begraven te Memory Gardens, Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA), zoon van Steven RAMAKER en Lena DEKKER.
Albert "Bert" Ramaker, son of Steven and Lena Ramaker, was born March 29, 1897 at Prairie View, Kansas. As a teenager he came to this area. On August 29, 1923 Bert Ramaker married Priscilla Vermeer, daughter of Evert and Hendrikje (Sneller) Vermeer at the home of her parents.
For twenty-five years Bert and Priscilla lived on a farm three and one half miles southeast of Sioux Center. Bert was active in many farm related activities including Farm Bureau, Sioux Center Creamery and Elevator Boards, and served as RE.A. president for twenty two years.
The Ramakers were members of the First Reformed Church of Sioux Center where Bert served as deacon and elder. For many years he taught Sunday School, catechism, and worked with young men in Y.M.C.A. Many lives were touched by his work in the church. He also served on the boards of Western Theological Seminary and Northwestern College.
by Helen (Ramaker) Kaemingk.
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